Many years ago we attended the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, which I think in those days wandered around the urban area according to venue availability etc. The time we went I think, with about 60% confidence it was somewhere like Caulfield Racecourse. It was a brilliant event, mainly run by local garden groups.
Foreshadowing a little, it has now been improved! managed! marketed?!! made into an experience!!!!🤮🤬🤮🤬. It is always located in Carlton Gardens and the Exhibition Building In many ways this reminds of our - perhaps more so my - unhappiness with the National Folk Festival which has changed from a pleasant community-based event to a marketing trough.
This was yet to be known so we took ourselves off. Perhaps indicating what was to come the tram driver announced as we pulled into ANZAC that because of an car accident up the track we would be diverting up Kingsway. This took us in the back and we got off in William St and caught another tram along Bourke St to the Museum stop. I have never seen a queue getting off a tram like this before.
You wanna queue? Check out the one into the show.
Inside the building it was pretty impressive architecture.
The shape of things to come.
A very good collection of school scarecrows!
We wandered on coming to an indigenous themed display garden. It was very clever with Black Stilts made from old umbrellas ...
.. and White-faced Herons made from vacuum cleaner parts.
I am unsure if this was a display garden - if so, of what: cacti or bonsai on steroids.
A very amusing stilt-walker. (Later we saw another dismantling her cossie to go under a low door, but I was too fed-up by then to take a second snap.)
We did visit a couple of stalls. I have realised that up to this point they hadn't started the incredibly intrusive high volume crap from a commercial radio station, so we were still feeling positive! This stall didn't take plastic but did do EFT: having old folk trying to do EFT on their phone was about the most inefficient process this side of a Peter Dutton policy launch.
A nice grass tree, 520 years old. The price was marked down from $13,300, but at $9,310 you'd want to be pretty confident of your skills to invest in in.
An interesting basket display amongst all the commercial stuff.
Especially this one.
Monster baskets in the Building.
Flower arrangements really do not ring my chimes.
This on the other hand was clever and amusing.
However the constant radio shite had got to us so we left.
After leaving the Gardens we caught a tram down to Swanston St. Chaos was evident there, presumably as a result of the earlier break up, with no trams for several minutes then 5 turning up at once, all very crowded and unpleasant - rather like the Flower Show!
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