This breathtaking display of blooms helped win Yarraman gardener Sandra Currell the Reserve Champion Award in this year’s Colours Of Yarraman gardening competition

November 11, 2020

Most of this year’s annual Colours Of Yarraman festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic … but not all of it.

After gathering public feedback, the Yarraman Progress Association decided the popular Garden Competition could go ahead largely as usual.

However, the only people who had the chance to see the entries this year were the competition’s entrants and the judges who picked the winners.

Progress Association president Joe Stimpson said most of the festival had to be cancelled “with great reluctance” due to COVID-19 restrictions.

But the Garden Competition went ahead because it could be run under Health Department guidelines.

Joe said the competition’s entrants had put in many months of effort to get their entries into top shape and organisers felt those efforts deserved to be recognised, even if the audience that saw the results was smaller than usual.

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Garden Competition

This year’s winners were:

Best Decorated Pot

  • Kindy 5 and under: Michael
  • Adult 17+: Thai-Lia Currell

Best Mini Garden

  • Junior: Clare
  • Adult: Sandra Currell

Best Basket of Vegetables

  • Audrey Frohloff

Best Arrangement – Fresh

  • Audrey Frohloff

Mixed Media on Canvas

  • Sandra Currell

Commercial Display

  • Bendigo Bank Yarraman

Community Organisation Garden

  • Encouragement Award: Yarraman Kindergarten
  • Runner-up: Over 50s Club, Yarraman
  • Winner: St. Phillips Church, Yarraman

Vegetable Garden

  • Encouragement Award: Yarraman Kindergarten
  • Runner-up: Russ Ezzy
  • Winner: Audrey Frohloff

Section of Garden

  • Encouragement Award: Gary & Jenny Sander
  • Highly Commended: Kay Ezzy
  • Runner-up: John & Carole Verden
  • Winner: Sandra Currell

Town Garden

  • Encouragement Award: Ruth Politsch
  • Runner-up: John & Carole Verden
  • Winner: Kay Ezzy

Australian Native Garden

  • Jo & Jeff Dent

Homestead Garden

  • Encouragement Award: Darryl Barnes
  • Runner-up: Jo & Jeff Dent
  • Winner: Audrey Frohloff

Reserve Champion

  • Sandra Currell

Grand Champion

  • Audrey Frohloff

Sandra Currell received her Reserve Champion award from Kayla Robertson, from sponsors Bendigo Bank

Audrey Frohloff was presented with 2020’s Grand Champion Award

Audrey Frohloff’s winning vegetable garden

Part of Sandra Currell’s winning display

Audrey Frohloff’s grand champion garden …

… and some more

… and a few more colours from Audrey

Sandra Currell added a touch of whimsy

 

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