Ferny Creek Horticultural Society Autumn Show

I accepted the invitation of a friend to sketch the preparations for the Ferny Creek Horticultural Society's Autumn Show! Some members were painstakingly laying moss on the Japanese tea garden display when I arrived. The show was being held in their show hall on 10 acres of beautiful grounds near Sherbrooke Forest in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne city. 

On this cool day, the overcast skies and whispy mist in the forest gave it a mysterious prehistoric feel as I looked across to the Gondwana Land plant area. 

With plant and cut flower sales, a Japanese Ikebana display and demonstration, judged exhibits, plant vendors, guided garden walks, not to mention Devonshire Teas, a BBQ and hot soup planned for the two days of the show, it would I'm sure have been a great success. 

#Sailorfude pen, watercolour, #Stillman&Birn Beta Sketchbook, 8.5 x 5.5” #fernycreekhorticulturalsociety