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Designer of the Year 2002 for Auckland Area, New Zealand was held in the beach area of Orewa in October 2002. The Area has 23 Floral Art clubs and the occasion attracted 41 entries in the junior, intermediate and senior sections. These are just some of the designs we have chosen to share with you. 
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Designer of the Year 2002 for Auckland New Zealand was  an occasion for the city's best floral artists to assemble. The theme  was 'Panache' and the result was a fabulous display of the traditional and the innovative, in design and technique. We feature some of the work here and will bring you more later.


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Cheryl Ward won the Designer of the Year title with an architectural design featuring intricately woven steel grass, with anthuriums, aralia and aspidistra placements.
The 'workwomanship' in this piece was precise and detailed and the views changed as you walked around it.
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Margaret Wilkin won second place and Best use of Foliage. The  two predominant uprights were covered in aspidistra leaves precisely placed and each  end matched perfectly.
The placement of the elfin arum lilies was a spiral and this design  only came into its own as you walked around it, as it revealed new aspects and surprises.
Margaret used palm fronds with steel accents and perspex in her work.
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Yvonne Fisken received a mention in the awards, Her piece was  a show stopper, with its size and wonderful design .Salal was the foliage plant  Yvonne used. She said it was easy to work with and kept very well in minimum water. She used impressive perspex staging to enclose her design of spathes, anthuriums, and hot pink banksias  and accessories. The effect was of a waterfall running through the placements, taking you into a fantasy world of the lush tropics.
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Valmae Cameron won the Intermediate section with her cone design.The cone was of fine chicken netting, stuffed with spagnum moss, and lightly decorated with effect wire. She used dried strelitzia leaves, chrysanthemums, an ivy covered ball and calla lilies to complete the work.Fabulous!

And now, some of the interesting details that caught our eye  in other designs in the competition.

Nancy Murphy, 3rd in the Seniors, used skeletonised leaves she had processed herself, with balls of roses and foliage in a cane tripod.
Scindy Wei used for her staging, Norfolk Pine fronds attached with copper wire, to a grid frame . The effect was very textural and modern. The traditional design on this was of chrysanthemums and anthuriums.

Margaret Panettiere used  the foliage in interesting ways to complement her perspex staging, red anthuriums and rolled astelia leaves.
Jackie Milina features feathered and glittered balls with the gerberas. Her design  won a Mention in the seniors and was based on a rectangular frame with 2 placements  and threaded beads on one side.

Carol Fraser won a Mention in the Junior Section. She filled a clear cylinder with water,  cellophone and flowers  as part of her two placement design.
Nathi Patel also used a two placement arrangement to win second place in the Juniors.  She used capsicum, strelitzia, carnations  and roses in this, her lower placement.