Greening Your City
Melbourne is in for some wonderful environmental escapades this March – C&G takes a look at fun ways to get involved in the green movement, bringing a little more colour into your city life.
The City of Melbourne’s Canopy: Melbourne Green Roof Forum is a discussion on green infrastructure - the next quarterly meet is pencilled in for Wednesday, 19th March 2014 from 6-8pm. Established in 2011, past discussions have brought together a range of people in both professional and casual capacity on topics such as green walls, urban beekeeping and urban agriculture. Canopy provides a fresh and innovative environment to share ideas and projects to build toward a greener city. Care about the future of Melbourne? Be here!
Wednesday’s Canopy is themed on ‘The Living City’, a pop-up shipping container in Melbourne’s prominent City Square (the park space on Swanston Street between Collins Street and Flinders Lane). The University of Melbourne, City of Melbourne, Nursery and Garden Industry Association of Victoria and the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show have collaborated to create a compact, modern and completely functional display of multiple green infrastructure features.
Entry to the event is free, though tickets must be booked in advance at this link. Canapés will also be on offer, and drinks available to buy at Three Below bar.
Canopy collaborator Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show will be taking over Carlton Gardens and the Royal Exhibition Building from 26th-30th March 2014. As the biggest annual flower and garden show in the southern hemisphere, more than 100,000 people are expected to attend this huge five-day event. With over 500 exhibitors, the show will boast Australia’s best floral and landscape designers, innovators and retailers.
There are some fantastic events taking place at the show, and C&G has selected a couple of exciting highlights. Be sure to take advantage of the free Floral Design Workshop and learn the beautiful hanging string garden design technique of Kokedama. Beginner gardeners will appreciate the Avenue of Achievable Gardens, where university students from NMIT, Swinburne and Holmesglen have created small and smart gardens and take-home instructions of how to easily re-create! Tickets to the show available here.