**2012 GREAT VICTORIAN HANGING BASKET COMPETITION**

The 2012 Great Victorian Hanging Basket Competition at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show has finished and was a fantastic event. The quality and number of basket entries was better and bigger than ever.

The results of the competition were:

Best Basket – Affiliated Society

1^st Bendigo Goldfields Chrysanthemum Society

2^nd East Keilor Sustainability Street Community Garden

3^rd Latrobe Rose & Garden

Best Basket – RHSV Member

1^st Elizabeth Cutler

2^nd Sandra Talbot

3^rd Lin Foong

Best Exhibit – Children

1^st Nicholas Vlachodimitropoulous

2^nd Oliva Leed

3^rd Honey Pedersen

Best Exhibit – Schools

1^st Seaford Primary School

2^nd St John Vianney’s Primary School Year 3

3^rd St Johns Vianney’s Primary School Year 4

Best Exhibit – TAFE

1^st Jenni Briody – Goulburn-Ovens Institute of TAFE

2^nd Dannielle Burden – Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

3^rd Des Brunt – Gippsland Institute of TAFE

Best Use of Colour Brian Chettleburgh

Best Use of Texture Pam & Justine Chettleburgh

Most Innovative Hanging Basket Brenda Leed

Specialist Plant or Plant Group Joshua Payne (Gippsland TAFE)

Best Culinary –Herbs, Kitchen Darren Bourke

Best Australian Native Basket APS Grampians Group

Best Cacti/Succulent Peter Greenshields

Popular Vote:

Peoples Choice Award – Most Popular Basket: Shane Eggleston

Winner of Peoples Choice – Magic Square Garden Draw : Pauline Rogan

Guess The Weight of the Pumpkin

The number of entries were incredible and there were many that were very close to the correct weight. Only one entry was correct. The correct weight was 25.3 kilograms.

Winner of Guess the Weight of the Pumpkin :  Chris Wilson – Wantirna South