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24.01.2022 Our sincere thanks to the following businesses for supporting the 2020 competition through sponsorship.

24.01.2022 RECOVERY THE RESULTS ARE IN. Well done to all students and their teachers for their amazing efforts in this difficult year. Enjoy them as you scroll through the albums below. We are sad that not all colleges were able to compete due to COVID restrictions, and look forward to welcoming them back next year.... Theme: ‘Recovery’, after the challenges of drought and bushfires that sadly impacted so heavily on the wildflower industry during 2019 and 2020. Open to Certificate lll students enrolled at a registered training organization. The brief: create a sideboard arrangement suitable for presentation to a grower or a volunteer impacted by the drought or bushfires. Accessories or embellishments to depict or enhance the theme can be included but must not dominate. You can choose a specific person to receive your arrangement and interpret the theme to suit. Select or make own style of container or base. Research suitable plant materials available. At least 75% of the total plant material used in the design must be wildflowers and foliages from species tracing their origins to either Australia or South Africa; up to 25% may be traditional/exotic or tropical flowers. Research notes: Consider the suitability and style of the design to fit our theme. List components used, including sundries and plant materials. Describe techniques used to achieve the design style and discuss the importance of form, colour, texture and space. Research 3 Australian native and 2 South African flower or foliage products of your choice, addressing our criteria. The entries: 63 from 9 colleges in Qld, NSW, the ACT and WA. Results: Innovative and wide-ranging interpretations of our theme.; a high standard of design and technical skills. Many entries made the short list.

20.01.2022 ‘Circle of light’ national student floristry competition update for teachers Our 2021 theme ‘Circle of Light’ is a popular one! All competition documents were emailed to teachers and colleges on our database in late April. It has come to our attention that in some cases, our email ended up the spam folder (we understand that many Tafe colleges have tightened up security). If you as a teacher don’t recall receiving the information, please check your spam folder. Alternatively... contact us so we can send this to you again. We’d like confirmation that your students will be competing this year. By the end of June please. If your class/college will not be competing, please also let us know. We don’t want anyone to miss out! Please contact Del Thomas - [email protected] or Bettina Gollnow [email protected]

14.01.2022 Introducing our wonderful competition sponsors First up, our MAIN SPONSOR for 2021 We thank East Coast Wildflowers for stepping up as the main sponsor for our 2021 competition.... The company is one of Australia's leading suppliers of Australian Native and South African Wildflowers, supplying high quality seasonal flowers and foliages all year round including many sought after and unusual products. They are based at the busy Sydney Flower Market. They grow a huge range of crops on their farm - extensive field plantings, and a wide range of flowers under cover. There is specialist expertise on farm to propagate many products and develop new ones. East Coast Wildflowers also source and supply from other leading growers and wild product harvesters from across Australia. Craig Scott at East Coast Wildflowers has a strong focus on helping trainee florists and educating customers about the incredible diversity and range of products available. Website: http://www.eastcoastwildflowers.com.au Email: [email protected]

07.01.2022 ‘Circle of light’ the 2021 National Student Floristry Competition WildFlowers Australia (WFA) is again hosting this very popular competition. To enter you must be studying at Certificate III level at TAFE or a private floristry college which is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). This year we’re taking inspiration from the word ‘corona’, looking for a positive, floral interpretation of the word. Beyond the virus, astronomers recognise a corona as a white or coloure...d circle of light surrounding a luminous body like the sun or the moon. Entrants will design and make a hair circlet, also known as a flower crown. They will be using mainly fresh materials but up 20% of materials used may be dried and/or preserved. As always, the competition focusses on expanding students’ knowledge about and inclusive use of Australian grown wildflowers, whether they are native to Australia or South Africa. Students can explore using only wildflowers or choose to include up to 25% traditional/exotic or tropical flowers. Students enter the competition via their teachers who will provide important encouragement and assess each entry. We will be contacting teachers on our database by the end of April providing them with all the details of the competition to share with their students. Any teacher who has not been involved previously can contact us at [email protected] for further info. The competition will be run in semester 2, allowing students to select from the abundance of products available in late winter to early spring. Deadline for entries is Wednesday September 22. A HUGE thank you to our sponsors Sponsors are critical for the competition to go ahead. We thank the following businesses and organisations for their generosity this year! Main sponsor: East Coast Wildflowers Gold: Koch & Co. Silver: Helix Australia, International Protea Association (IPA), Wildflower industry Network of NSW Inc (WIN), Wildflowers WA Bronze: All Things Botanical, Flowers magazine, Premium Greens, Tesselaar Flowers, Wafex Grower sponsors: Broken River Proteas, Brushtop Farm. You will be meeting our sponsors in greater detail in future posts. Photo caption Photo this vibrant flower crown was one of the stunning designs created by florists Mel Anderson and Helen Williams from White House Flowers at our event ‘Walking on the wildside’ in 2016.