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ardening, lifestyle, live music, food and demonstrations will form part of this weekend’s Horsham Spring Garden and Lifestyle Festival.
Organiser Graham Gerlach said the twoday event at Horsham Botanic Gardens would showcase about 30 exhibitors. “We have lots of plants outdoor, lifestyles, pottery, horticulture, garden art – a good spread of products and exhibitors,” he said. “Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants will be there, Horsham Paws, Ambulance Victoria with their Shocktober campaign, and CFA is going to do Get Fire Ready. “The historical Horsham photo display that we had last year in the rotunda is going to be there again, with about 100 photos of historical local scenes.” Mr Gerlach said some exhibitors were offering hands-on experiences. “One of the nurseries, Blossom Blend from Jeparit, runs little sessions for kids to learn how to pot plants, and they take it home with them,” he said. “Morgan was there last year with the nursery, and we thought it was a great thing for
kids to do, so she’s back. There will also be a walking tour through the native sections that have been developed at the west end of the gardens.” People can also buy tickets in the raffle, offering three prizes – a $1800 barbecue, $700 wheelbarrow and hamper, and a $500 weed-spray unit. “We will have live music from Leah Briggs. We had her last year and she was great,” Mr Gerlach said. “At lunchtime on Sunday, Horsham City Pipe Band will march in and perform for half an hour or so.” Mr Gerlach said a food court offered people plenty of meal options. “On top of the exhibitors, we have a food court that has everything, from barbecued sausages, to the Spuddy Good van, icecream, coffee, and wine-tasting,” he said. “The gardens are beautiful – they are just pristine at the moment. “We invite people to come along, it starts at 9am both days. We want people to have fun and enjoy.” People can find more information on the festival at the Horsham Spring Garden Festival Facebook page.
OUTDOOR DELIGHTS: Horsham Spring Garden Festival offers plenty to see and do – especially for gardeners. Pictured above at last year’s festival are Drew and Katrina Fraser checking out some plants. Historical photographs will again be on display at the rotunda at the festival. Pictured below at last year’s festival is Emma Langlands pointing to a Hugh Jenkins photo of Langlands store.
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he practicality and appeal of native plants will be a highlight of Horsham Spring Garden and Lifestyle Festival, with tours of Horsham Botanic Gardens’ native beds and a Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants propagation activity. In a continuing collaboration with Horsham Rural City Council, HRCC, gardens staff, Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants, WGAP, members are establishing Grampians, Little Desert and rare Wimmera plant beds from locally collected and propagated plants. WGAP member Graham Goods said the first association with gardens staff was to establish a Fred Rogers Memorial Walk, after a row of Acacia Pendula was planted to honour the Horsham resident, school-teacher and Australian Plants Society Victoria president. Their most recent planting day included 18 members planting 320 seedlings in about 90 minutes, after council employees prepared the beds on the gardens’ west side. “We’ve got a happy relationship with the staff here,” Mr Goods said. “It’s important to represent other areas’ plants here, as
RARE PLANTINGS: Graham Goods, Ryan Johnstone and Maree Goods in Horsham Botanic Gardens’ rare Wimmera plant bed. They are showing narrow-leaf yellow buttons, Chrysocephalum apiculatum subspecies filifolium, which was commonly grown on Wimmera plans before agricultural clearing.
sometimes people just don’t get to those areas. “We propagated all these ourselves. “Native plants support the whole local ecosystem as well as making the place a pleasant place to live. “There are a lot of small invertebrates – wasps, spiders, flies and bees, and I think ev-
erybody’s pretty keen on native bees – that are supported by natives, then you’ve got the little skinks and geckos and things in amongst the rocks too. “I think it’s our patriotic duty to each grow some Australian plants in our gardens.” HRCC’s Craig Gawith said the gardens showcased a variety of garden beds, contribut-
ed by several designers since being established by English landscape gardener and botanist William Guilfoyle in the 1870s. “A lot of our beds are themed – a number of different curators throughout the gardens’ history all would have put their own stamp on it,” he said. Garden festival attendees can
propagate their own plants to take home. WGAP member Maree Goods said the opportunity was popular last year. “People come in and get their hands dirty – we have disposable gloves – and take home what they’ve done, we will tell them how to care for it after they get home. Last year,
I had a woman who had her two grandchildren, and they did some propagating and took it home,” she said. “She told me the plants were now in her garden. “We hear that sort of thing, that kids are coming on board, and we think that’s great.”
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the fun part of it. We will bring a bit of everything to the festival – natives, exotics, trees and pots to show people what we have,” she said. Ms Mitchell said she expected a new delivery of proteas would be popular. “People have been chasing these – we ran out,” she said. “We’ve also got fruit trees just coming back, now we have finished the bare-root season with the deciduous trees, we
have a good range of fruit trees. Tomato plants are also popular, and we have a good range of those, from tall to dwarf, suitable for large or small gardens, beds or pots – tomatoes do really well in pots.” People who make a purchase from Wimmera Aquatrail at the garden festival will receive a $5 voucher to spend at the nursery at a later date.
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mbulance Victoria encourages all people to learn its ‘Call, Push, Shock’ campaign steps to help Victorians survive cardiac arrest – maintaining its title as the state with the country’s best cardiac arrest survival rate.
‘Call, Push, Shock’ encourages people to call triple zero, ‘push’ by starting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, and ‘shock’ by using an automated external defibrillator, AED. Horsham paramedic Stuart Mills said the region’s paramedics would again be at the Horsham Spring Garden and Lifestyle festival to demonstrate the process. “We will have mannequins for people to practise – everyone can have a go, from young kids through to adults, grandparents, carers, anyone who can get down on their knees to do chest compressions can have a go,” he said. “CPR gets the blood pumping round the body – we don’t want to lose any oxygenation of the brain or any of the organs. “So, do compressions and send for help, and if you’ve got availability of a defib, get an early shock on board.” Across the state in the past year, bystanders performed CPR in 80 per cent of witnessed cardiac arrests. There are about 21 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests each day. “We also encourage people to sign up as GoodSAM responders,” Mr Mills said. “It’s a free app that alerts people to nearby cardiac arrests, and will show you where all the registered AEDs are, and
if they have 24-hour access. It enables people to attend, perform chest compressions, or grab a defibrillator on the way to do chest compressions. “Especially in rural areas, any early shock and chest compressions is the way to go, to give every heart a chance.” Mr Mills said for every minute that CPR was delayed, survival probability decreased by 10 per cent. “But when CPR and an AED is used before paramedics arrive, it can more than double a person’s chance of survival,” he said. “AEDs are designed to be easy to use, with instructions that guide people through what to do.” Ambulance Services Minister Ingrid Stitt, who launched this year’s Shocktober campaign, said every minute mattered during cardiac arrest. “Shocktober is making sure those minutes matter,” she said. “Victoria has one of the best cardiac survival rates anywhere in the world and that is thanks to our dedicated paramedics and the brave Victorians who step up to save a life.” Mr Mills said people of all ages were welcome to visit Ambulance Victoria’s stand at this weekend’s festival. “Some people find AEDs scary, but at the festival, we will have AEDs on display that people can have a go with and practise their CPR method with our paramedics and ambulance community officers,” he said. “We also welcome people – children and adults – to have a look through the ambulance and ask questions.”
READY TO SHOCK: Garden festival exhibitor Ambulance Victoria will help promote Shocktober. Pictured above is Horsham paramedic Stuart Mills. At last year’s festival, the site received plenty of interest, including left Jacob and Evie Morrow, pictured with Ambulance Victoria team leader Braeden Hyland.
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