Feature Elements & Areas
Focus Your Business
Focus your business opportunities by carefully selecting the best placement of your stand at the expo.
General Retail Area
The Gardening Australia Expo has gained a proven reputation for showcasing exhibitors' products to thousands of visitors. In many cases, exhibitors have achieved outstanding retail sales while, at the same time, gaining recognition for their brands.
Whether you wish to achieve brand recognition or simply make retail sales during the expo, your expectations should be met in both ways. Take this oppoortunity to plant yourself at the Gardening Australia Expo and realise the potential of your business growth in 2009.
The expos have gained a proven reputation for showcasing exhibitors' products to thousands of visitors.
TAKE THE GARDEN TO THE KITCHEN TABLE
Gardener's Village
The Gardener's Village area showcases boutique food and wine as well as skincare, health and beauty products from all over Australia. Many of these products are not easily accessible in the normal marketplace and are only found in high quality gourmet markets and farms.
Adjacent to the village will be the Garden Kitchen Theatre. Gardener's Village exhibitors are invited to participate in cooking demonstrations run in the theatre each day.
Gardener's Village stands are 4, 6 or 9 square metres.
GROW YOUR BUSINESS
Nursery Walk
The most popular purchase at the Gardening Australia Expo is plants. The Nursery Walk area is a gardener's dream of stunning colour, variety of form and foliage, seedlings and bulbs.
Exhibiting in this area is an exceptional retail opportunity for wholesale and retail nurseries to sell their plants direct to thousands of expo visitors.
To exhibit in Nursery Walk you need to meet our standards of quality and presentation and be either a wholesale or retail nursery business. Ask for your application form for more detailed information.
BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION
Build a Feature Garden
Design and build a stunning feature garden for the Gardening Australia Expo and take advantage of the wide exposure and brand-building opportunities of being associated with one of the most respected Australian gardening icons. The visual spectacle they provide ensures they are a source of inspiration for every visitor.
Located at the heart of the expo, the gardens showcase excellence in design and horticultural techniques and introduce the latest in landscaping materials and trends.
Creating an inspirational, original and imaginative garden does much more than simply raise awareness of your talents among thousands of visitors. You'll also develop a network of potential clients and suppliers and vie with industry peers for a Gardening Australia Expo Award.
Space for Feature Gardens is free, but is allocated on the basis of an approved design. Ask for your application now.
Highlight your Plant Society
As non-profit organisations, plant societies are offered walled booths with tables, chairs and signage. This is for the group to showcase members' work, provide information and gain new membership, as well as offer advice to visitors about the group's particular area of specialisation.
Viisitors love to meet and talk about their favourite plant and possibly even join the club or society. Spaces for societies are provided free, however, you cannot retail anything from this space, it is provided as an information and advise service only. As previous events have shown, the amiable atmosphere of this environment is one of the expo visitors' favourite places.
Arrange your Floral Talent
Exciting and up-and-coming designers from educational institutions and industry bodies and well-known contemporary floral artists are invited to challenge themselves to set new benchmarks for imagination and design by creating floral displays that will capture the senses. All displays are judged on the use of flowers and foliage as an art form.
Entering a display provides enormous exposure for your business as well as helping you business to blossom.
Spaces for the floral displays are free but allocated on the basis of approved designs. Ask for your application form now and raise your floral business profile.
