News » 23.05.2025 - Australia: Planting underway for Floriade 2025

 

The heater might only just be going on for Winter, but preparation for Spring is already well underway for the ACT Government's events team. Since April, more than a million tulip bulbs and annuals for Floriade 2025 have been sorted and counted at the Yarralumla Nursery before being transported to Commonwealth Park for planting in painstakingly designed garden beds.

Described as "Australia's biggest celebration of Spring", Floriade returns to Canberra for its 38th year from Saturday, 13 September, to Sunday, 12 October.

"We've created 12 unique garden designs, built about 8000 square metres of garden, and planted about 970,000 flowers ready for spring," head gardener Tim Howard says.

"It takes about 18 months' worth of planning and preparation from the start to the opening day of Floriade. We've had designs drawn up, and Yarralumla Nursery kindly counted all our stock by hand … and we've been planting since the start of April. We're about three-quarters of the way through that process."

 

Source: www.floraldaily.com
 

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