Phillipe and me, as well as Richmond and Teresa, who are all members from the Green Culture Singapore (GCS) discussion forum had been busy at Suntec City over the past two days with the preparations for the Singapore Garden Festival (SGF).
We have been asked by the Community in Bloom (CIB) to landscape a mock-up balcony area that is commonly found on a ground floor unit of a condominium. On Wednesday afternoon, all of us gathered first at the CIB exhibition area hunting for plants that we thought may be interesting and new, but more importantly, growable in a ground floor apartment unit’s balcony.
We settled on a tree fern, a Ensete banana, a couple of spiral gingers, some ferns and had a small pond with some water lettuces in it. The design that Phillipe had in mind with the selection of plants we have chosen was a simple one and team then began to assemble everything together after we rounded up the plants we wanted. Do drop by the CIB exhibition area on level 4 of the Suntec Convention Center at the SGF to take a look at our little masterpiece!
After we completed our work at the CIB exhibition area, we proceed back to our booth and continued with the preparation work that was required. The booth was kind of plain to start with and thanks to the CIB but we were able to borrow some plants that were in line with our booth’s feature of ’kampong’ plants, which brightened the area up tremendously.
We worked continuously until it was quite late in the night. We were near the completion of the GCS booth before we left for home. Phillipe has two more paintings to bring as they are still in the process of drying before they could be framed up and then brought to the Show.
I am grateful to Phillipe’s efforts and his creativity as well as fellow GCS members who have come forward to lend their hands and time to make our booth’s decor so impressive. Phillipe had squeezed his brain juices to the max because we were working on a very low and tight budget.
If you have noticed, alot of waste is created whenever there are large exhibition or shows like the SGF and I am glad that Phillipe’s design was environmentally friendly because he recycled quite alot of our previous exhibition materials used in GardenTech 2007 for the SGF’s exhibition booth this time round.
