Your international guide for all your flower events and gardens

The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show is a flower show located in the World Heritage Site of Carlton Gardens, and the Royal Exhibition Building.

Beginning in 1995 the event has been annually held in Melbourne, Australia, and has grown in reputation to be the largest annual flower event and garden show in the Southern Hemisphere! Visitors can expect to see the creativity and passion of Australia’s top floral and landscape designers through their stunning displays, as well as have access to great food and entertainment. This event is open to all ages and is family-friendly.

You can pick a bunch of tulips on Union Square San Francisco. The tulip picking garden opens at 1 pm and will be open until 4.30 pm. Each person can pick their own bouquet of 10 beautiful tulips.

If you had to pick the one flower you loved the most, it would, of course be the tulip. They are some of the most stunning flowers.

DID YOU KNOW
That there are more than 150 types of tulips all over the world with more than 3000 variants?

Tokyo Cherry Blossom Spots

Below is a list of some of Tokyo's most popular spots for cherry blossom viewing (hanami), including the typical timing for best viewing in the average year.

Shinjuku Gyoen •••
Early April
10 minute walk from Shinjuku Station, 200 yen, 9:00 to 16:30
Shinjuku Gyoen features more than one thousand cherry trees of over a dozen varieties, including numerous early and late blooming trees. There are spacious lawn areas, and the atmosphere is calm and peaceful. Thanks to the early and late blooming trees, Shinjuku Gyoen is a good hanami destination for those who miss the main season by a week or two. Alcoholic drinks are prohibited.

Ueno Park ••
Early April
A few steps from Ueno Station, admission free
Illumination 2017: 3/18 to 4/9, 17:30 to 20:00
One of Japan's most crowded, noisy and popular spots for cherry …

Flower Parade Week, at the Bollenstreek, the bulb growing area.
The parade floats will be decorated in the hall van DeLeeuw Flowerbulbs in Sassenheim from Wednesday, up to and including Friday.

On Friday evening the illuminated Flower Parade will travel through Noordwijkerhout.
At 9.30am on Saturday the Flower Parade will depart from the Wilhelminaboulevard in Noordwijk on its way to Haarlem. The parade will pass by Keukenhof just as it did last year.
At around 21.30 hrs the illuminated parade will arrive at the centre of Haarlem. On Sunday all the parade floats will be on display at the Gedempte Oude Gracht/Nassaulaan.

Apart from the Flower Parade of the Bollenstreek being the only event of this calibre that occurs in the springtime, it is the only parade that is constructed and composed of bulb flowers such as hyacinths, tulips and daffodils. It is for this reason that …

'A World of Flowers'

The Dallas Arboretum is happy to present the theme “A World of Flowers.” Each week during Dallas Blooms showcases different regions of the world. Did you know that tulips are from Greece, not Holland? This annual event is one of the largest floral festivals in the southwest, with over a 100 varieties of spring bulbs exploding with color and 500,000 blooms that will dazzle you. Join us at the International Crossroads Village, located in Pecan Grove, where we will share the cultures around the world.he festival runs through begin April, and ends with the mass flowering of 3,000 azaleas set to bloom at the end of April.

“DAHLIA DREAMS” FLORAL DISPLAY (大丽花之梦)

Stroll through a Chinese garden blooming with colourful dahlias as the popular "Dahlia Dreams" floral display at Gardens by the Bay returns once again to usher in a brand new year.

Amidst a scenic landscape dotted with elegant pavilions, rotating water wheels, and a majestic 40-metre-long archway of red lanterns, take time to admire the spectacular dahlias – some with blooms as large as one's face – along with other festive and auspicious plants like narcissus, cymbidium and chrysanthemum. Keep your eyes peeled for the exquisite Senrinzaki or "Thousand Blooms" chrysanthemum arrangements, which have been painstakingly cultivated over a period of at least one year to present the magnificent display of 500 to 1,500 flowers blooming from a single plant.

To celebrate the Year of the Pig, delightful sculptures of the animal can also be spotted in Gardens by the Bay's first floral display of …

Dubai Miracle Garden: The world’s biggest natural flower garden!

Miracle Garden Dubai – in Arabic: دبي معجزة حديقة – is one of a kind in the region and in the world for such a unique display and extravagant outdoor recreational destination.

A flower garden is not expected in the desert, yet there is a huge garden in Dubai since 2013. In the Miracle Garden Dubai you can see over 45 million flowers in about 60 different species, some even to be planted for the first time in the Gulf region.

Please watch out for spectacular natural flowers in different designs structures! Credit to the owner of the video, thank you for making Dubai Miracle Garden as your one of your dream place to visit!

As the biggest and best Boston flower show, this mammoth event features more than 25 unique display gardens by the area's top nurseries and design firms.

In addition, you can view award-winning flower arrangements, learn from numerous presentations and demonstrations throughout the day, and explore the wide array of garden, culinary, landscaping, building, and decorative objects on sale by vendors.

Whether you crave a glimpse of spring beauty and garden design ideas, or need to find talented professionals to make your dream landscape come true, or simply want to shop, there's something here for everyone to enjoy.

Garden Show Display Gardens
Some gardens demonstrate building materials, especially those using sustainable products. If you're planning a project to create outdoor living space, the Boston Flower and Garden Show will give you plenty of ideas.

Miracle Garden Dubai - The world’s biggest natural flower garden

Miracle Garden Dubai - in Arabic: دبي معجزة حديقة - is one of a kind in the region and in the world for such a unique display and extravagant outdoor recreational destination.

A flower garden is not expected in the desert, yet there is a huge garden in Dubai since 2013. In the Miracle Garden Dubai you can see over 45 million flowers in about 60 different species, some even to be planted for the first time in the Gulf region.

The best thing about the Miracle Garden Dubai is that you will find more than just flowers and plants. You can also admire numerous other objects like the world's largest floral clock, various cars decorated with flowers,  a replica of the Burj Khalifa built from oranges and other much more. A large number of works is exchanging each season so the park is always a …

You Have To Visit In a Lifetime

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden - Florida US

In Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden  conserve and teach a lot of tropical plants. The garden’s Center for Tropical Plant Conservation has conserved many group of plants from different places like South Florida, the Caribbean, Oceanic Islands, tropical Africa and Madagascar. The Garden is also the laeding centar of palm research. It research palms for about 70 years.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

Jardin Majorelle - Marrakech Morocco

The Majorelle Garden is all in blue color which make it a different from the other botanical gardens. The Garden is created by Jacques Majorelle in 1920s. Today its owner is a famous fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

The garden covers nearly two and a half acres. Collections of cacti, exotic plants and trees are landscaped to emphasize each one’s unique beauty. The paths allow us to see how the architectural style …

Sunflower van Gogh - The story behind a masterpiece

The famous Sunflower van Gogh are the subject of still life paintings from the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. This painting is a depiction of a vase of 15 sunflowers at a yellow background. All sunflowers are already out of the bud. This painting was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1889 in Arles.

Vincent's life

Vincent van Gogh was born in 1853 in the village of Zundert - Holland. In 1869 he started as a clerk in an art trade from his uncle. He worked there for seven years and sometimes he had to go to another branch in London or Paris. At the age of 28 he began seriously with drawing and painting. Around 1885 painted Vincent van Gogh the famous painting  "The Potato Eaters"

In 1886 he goes to Paris. In 1888 he moves to the …

Madeira - celebrating springtime

In Madeira, springtime is honoured like a queen, being crowned with the Flower Festival, held every year after Easter.

In celebrating springtime and the exuberance of the flowers that typically bloom in that season, and here with even greater intensity due to Madeira’s subtropical climate, Funchal is the setting for a truly sumptuous spectacle, the city’s Flower Festival.

The festivities begin on the Saturday, when thousands of children dressed in the appropriate fashion flock to the Praça do Município to take part in the building of a mural of flowers - the Wall of Hope.

The next day, dozens of floats decorated with a myriad of the island’s most typical flowers leave the scent of gentle but ephemeral perfumes in the air - it is time for the Flower Parade. At the same time, to mark the occasion, Madeiran artists devote their time to building unforgettable …

How To Make This Elegant Coffee Filter Rose

Coffee filters are wonderfully delicate looking and absorbent ~ perfect for dying! Use water colours or watered down acrylic paint for a more intense colour or food coloring and natural dyes such as beetroot or tea for a vintage, yellowy brownish aged effect.

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How To Make This Elegant Coffee Filter Rose QUICK

There are so many ways to make tissue paper rose. This rose is made with coffee filters that I got at the dollar store. All you need is coffee filters, scissors and some kind of glue.
I love paper crafts and making paper roses and flowers. Well I love any kind of crafts to be honest. I've been doing crafts since I was young and

1 Island – 4 Seasons – 365 Days of Nature Experience in a Flower Paradise

 
Take a break, enjoy nature and relax: Mainau Island in Lake Constance offers lavish nature experiences each season. Spring signals the start into the Flower Year with thousands of tulips and other spring flowers; hundreds of rhododendrons and fragrant roses sweeten the summer. Over 12.000 colorful dahlias of all varieties make fall unforgettable, while an enchanting hush turns Mainau into a magical winter garden during the colder months. Throughout the whole year, Mainau Island invites its visitors to forget their hectic everyday life and turn their attention to the beauty and tranquility of nature.

Count Lennart Bernadotte transformed the once overgrown island and castle park in Lake Constance into a botanical garden during the 1950s, nowadays it is one of the main tourist attractions in the Lake Constance region, a place of relaxation …

Italy's Best Infiorata Festivals

During May and June, Infiorata festivals are held in various Italian towns and are definitely a must to see, if you are planning to visit one of the many regions where these festivals take place. From North to South, there are various options to make sure you will not miss this experience during your next trip to Italy in late spring-early summer.
We chose three Infiorate festivals in particular, Noto, Genzano and Spello.

The Infiorata Festivals are held in various parts of Italy, besides Noto in Sicily, Spello in Umbria and Genzano in Lazio, you can visit similar festivals in Pienza in Tuscany, Orvieto in Umbria, Potenzoni di Briatico in Calabria, Brugnato in Liguria, The Abbey of Chiaravalle della Colomba in Fidenza, Emilia Romagna.

Spello’s Fabulous Celebration of Flower

The feast of Corpus Domini (the Body of Christ) is one of the most spectacular …

Floriade - Welcome spring in Australia's capital

Inspired by a fresh new theme every year, Canberra’s world-class spring festival, Floriade runs each year between September and October with more than one million blooms on display as a backdrop to celebrations throughout Commonwealth Park, Camberra. With free entre the event welcomes more than 480,000 local, interstate and international visitors each year.

Floriade ;  A feast for the sense

This year, Floriade will feature 99 varieties of tulips, with a total of 388, 642 tulip bulbs planted. They will also have module planter boxes, which will feature 27 varieties of tulips (some doubles), with a quantity of 33, 231 tulip bulbs in total.

To make up the million bulbs, they also feature the more types in addition to the tulipa varietals like: Iris, Narcissus, Ranunculus, Bellis, Pansy, Viola, Violetta, Chrysanthemum, Hyacinth, Muscari, Scilla and Spring Star Flower
 

Floriade is Australia’s premier celebration of …

Unique Tulip pick garden

Witness the official start of tulip season on National Tulip Day. The season begins officially on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The event is organised by Dutch tulip growers who build a special tulip picking garden on Dam Square. Anyone can come to pick free tulips here. This festive event sets of tulip season because some 1.7 billion Dutch tulips are expected to bring spring into homes around the world.

- Tulips are a real icon of the Netherlands.
- Take part and experience the opening of the tulip season.
- Pick up free tulips at Amsterdam's Dam Square during National Tulip Day.

Tulips from Amsterdam
Every year, Dutch tulip growers build a huge garden with tens of thousands of tulips on Dam Square in Amsterdam. The biggest garden of Amsterdam transforms Dam Square into a sea of colour, where thousands of people come …

Be wowed this winter by our largest and most diverse display of orchids … ever.

As one of the first plant collections at Longwood, orchids have held a place of distinction since 1922. Our talented horticulturists celebrate the beauty and variety of orchids with an artful display that includes a towering 12-foot-tall archway, our spectacular orchid curtain, and hundreds of vibrant Vanda orchids adorning our Silver Garden. More orchids, more surprises, more living works of art await. See you in the Gardens.

The trade exhibition Hungarian Garden presenting machinery and equipment dedicated for the maintenance of parks and gardens. The associated co-exhibitions of Hungarian Garden in the HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Centre was the same this year as usual: Viticulture and Viniculture, demonstrating the background technology of vine growing and wine making, and the most important domestically organised agrarian exhibition, AGROmashEXPO and AgrárgepShow. The biggest Hungarian agricultural bunch had 42 000 visitors. 6% of them arrived primarily for visiting Hungarian Garden. 10% of visitors are interested in technologies and machines of park maintenance and gardening.

The New Year begins fresh and vivacious with colors and fragrance at the Surat Flower Show.

A beautiful flower show held at Surat Gujarat, there were different sculptures created using only flowers.

Over the years the book fair and flower show have become one of the most popular events held by. Along with knowledge and beauty, people enjoyed these events as a small family picnic and even spent a whole evening with kith and kin on the grounds making merry.

The jewel of Pune, the Empress garden organises an annual flower show throughout the year to create environmental awareness among people. The botanical garden was founded by the queen of England and since then it has been organised by Agri- Horticulture Society of Western India. The show is known as Buds and Blooms, the main attraction of the event are Roses and Dahlias.

WHAT COLOR IS YOUR GARDEN?

This is the one time each year when Hampton Roads residents can get information on virtually every aspect related to flowers and gardening, at a single climate-controlled location. Experts and knowledgeable professionals will be there to discuss plants, plans, products and practices. More than a hundred vendors, exhibitors and displayers provide guests countless ideas and products they can use.

Flower shows are conducted every year during the week of Republic day and Independence day, to educate people about the variety of flora and develop public interest in plant conservation and cultivation. This year’s Republic Day National Flower Festival at Lalbagh will be historic as so far it had been restricted to participants from Karnataka. Other States expected to showcase their native flowers are Goa, Maharashtra and several from the North East, according to Lalbagh authorities.

The Glass House
Of the many artistic structures in Lalbagh, the Glass House is the most famous. In the necklace of Bangalore's gardens, Lalbagh is a pendant and in the centre of this pendant is the glass house in the form of a diamond. Today, as the jewel of Lalbagh, it is the centre stage for holding the famous biannual flower shows.

There is a stunning resemblance between Bangalore in India and London …

Dawyck Botanic Garden, formerly part of the Dawyck Estate, is one of the world's finest arboreta and has a magic all of its own. Set in the scenic Borders landscape, this woodland garden is a delight all year round.

Swiss Bridge
One of the most photographed parts of the Garden is the Azalea Terrace, which in late spring greets the visitor with an outstanding display of colour.

The Dutch Bridge is the Garden's defining landmark. To the left is the Kalopanax, a tree member of the ivy family, opposite what is believed to be one of the original Douglas firs at Dawyck. Upstream are the falls of Scrape Burn which is flanked by a cascade of snowdrops in spring.

Dynamo Pond, restored in 1983, is a reminder of the days when water was piped downhill to generate electricity for Dawyck House. A grand old larch (Larix decidua) that grows …

ROSE OF THE NORTH

The celebration of the end of the cool season with plentihood of flowers is one of the most colorful event of the year.
Every year during the first weekend in February is the Chiangmai Flower Festival. The city is awash with vibrant colors ranging from the electric orange and lilac colors of the bougainvillea to the velvety blossoms of petunias in all shades of pink, white and purple.
The strident red of the poinsettias, bought by many at Christmas and New Years, is echoed by beds of scarlet salvias. Homes and shop owners alike line the city streets with colorful flower boxes. The sheer profusion of color that the flower festival and carnival brings to Chiang Mai aptly gives the city its name “Rose of the North”.

On all three days of the festival, prize blooms are on display at Suan Buak Haad near …

Enjoy the amazing flower festival Baguio!

The use of the word Panagbenga is reflective of the blend of cultural influences from Malaysia and other South East Asian countries. The word translates to ‘the season of bloom’. The popular festival is scheduled for February, and is held to celebrate the abundance of flowers in the city.

This has meaning for the locals, especially those who survived the Luzon quake back in 1990. For a whole week, Baguio streets come alive with spectacular rhythmic dances, pulsating songs and colourful floral arrangements that will interest any avid flower-lovers.
What stands out during the Panagbenga Festival is the splendid use of floats. The floats are covered with beautiful flowers, creating a distinct parade unlike others that are held in the country. To say that colours come alive during this week-long festival is to put it mildly.

If you are keen to interact with …

With its remarkable 30th anniversary in the coming show, Okinawa International Orchid Show has the longest history among the international orchid shows in Japan, and is the largest orchid show in Okinawa prefecture with abundant orchids gathered from not only within the prefecture but also from mainland Japan and overseas. Furthermore, This show is the only orchid show in Japan which receives Prime Minister Award, and the prize awarded plants are must-see!

Do you spend countless hours clicking on wedding websites, flipping through bridal magazines, and exploring Pinterest and Instagram?
How are you going to turn all of those ideas into your wedding day? When you visit theWedding Experience, planning your wedding will be easy and a lot of fun! You'll chat with the area's most talented and trustworthy wedding professionals while you taste delicious cakes, see beautiful flowers, and find your perfect look in our runway fashion show. You'll be inspired as you discover new ideas and uncover the latest trends. Best of all, you'll experience everything up close, in person, and in just one day.

The event features 50,000 bulbs and 200,000 narcissus flowers for your viewing enjoyment!

he Narcissus Festival is held on the spacious greenery of Kasai Rinkai Park, which offers views of both Tokyo Bay and Mt. Fuji. The narcissus fields here are the largest anywhere in Tokyo’s 23 wards, and the event features 50,000 bulbs and 200,000 narcissus flowers for your viewing enjoyment. Also, during the Narcissus Festival event period, the fields are lit up so you can view them at night. The illumination gives the fields a mystical atmosphere. During the day, expert staff members and volunteers are on hand to give explanations about the narcissus flower fields. By all means stop by and experience the crisp and refreshing aroma that drifts through the air at Kasai Rinkai Park this time of year.

Mughal Garden is one of the most significant historical gardens in Delhi. It is located inside the Rashtrapati Bhawan Complex. Mughal Garden is famous for the wide variety of flowers, some of which are rare and extinct.

Mughal Garden in Delhi is spread over an area of 13 acres and is a combination of the former Mughal style with that of the British style. Mughal Garden is designed by Sir Edwin Lutynes for Lady Harding.

Mughal Garden is a British garden inspired by the Mughal style and that is why you can come across some Mughal style canals, fountains and terraces. Mughal Garden is divided into 3 sections - rectangular, long and circular gardens also known as Pearl garden, Butterfly garden and Circular garden.

Mughal Garden has 4 waterways with a lotus-shaped red sandstone made fountain at their intersection. The whole Mughal Garden is a place of …

WELCOME TO BRIDE

BRIDE is the Middle East's premier, interactive, dynamic and exciting event. With expert ambassadors, celebrity designers and a plethora of brands BRIDE is the only event where visitors can access their aspirations. The leading wedding and lifestyle event where industry suppliers launch, build, grow, meet and educate over 25,000 powerful and influential women in the Middle East.

With over 550 international and regional exhibitors, stunning fashion shows, live demonstrations, inspiring talks and on-trend advice, the events offer excited brides-to-be and lifestyle conscious women a fun and informative buying experience.

The BRIDE shows will offer a fun, interactive, dynamic and exciting day out that will inspire you as a bride to be or fashionably fabulous lady. With expert ambassadors, celebrity designers and a plethora of brands BRIDE is the only event where you can access your aspirations. BRIDE brings flower splendour, grandeur and beauty under one roof. A …

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Every year about 30 breeders try their best to put a beautiful flower show in De Roode Leeuw.
The breeders show the most beautiful flowers.

The garden is filled with more than 100 different types of tulips, around which the room is dressed with flower pieces with different types of flowers.

The Annual Flower Show organized by the Society is the World’s oldest Flower Show in existence. Since the early part of 1828, ever year (barring 1940), this competition has been taking place as a prominent fixture of Kolkata’s happening. This is a gala event where around 2000 entries and 16,500 exhibits including edible vegetable are on display. First Annual Exhibition of vegetables was held on 9th January, 1828 in the rooms of the Asiatic Society under the auspices of the then President of the Society Mr. W. Leycester.

At present the Show is equipped with Plants, Shrubs, Succulents, Cactus, Orchids, Bonsai, Vegetables, Uprooted Vegetables, Seasonal Flowering & Non Flowering plants, Annuals, Cut Flowers, Fruits, Medicinal Plants etc. Besides this, North East States like Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh etc takes part in the Show with their exotic Orchids and other plants, species which helps the people of Kolkata to collect …

An amazing sight when the approximately 300 plum trees bloom!

Yushima Tenmangu Shrine (Yushima Tenjin) has been beloved since the Edo period as a famous place to view plum blossoms. The precincts, which enshrine Sugawara no Michizane (the deity of scholarship), are an amazing sight when the approximately 300 plum trees - mainly Shirokaga white plums - bloom. Lord Sugawara was exiled to Dazaifu in Kyushu. He wrote a famous poem that read, "Let the east wind blow and send your fragrance / Oh, plum blossoms / Do not forget the spring / Even though your master is gone." The plums are at their best from mid- to late February each year

The tropics are closer than you think.

This year’s Orchid Show captures the spirit of islands, beaches, and rainforests in places like the South Pacific and the Amazon. You’ll get a feel for the radiance of blooms under sunlit palm trees and in forest canopies teeming with color and life. Picture more than 10,000 orchids in bloom, paired with sweeps of bromeliads and birds of paradise—lush, vibrant, intoxicating.

Big Tulip Festival with 1 million tulips

Flowers and illumination can be enjoyed in the spring, the most beautiful season

Huis Ten Bosch is located in Kyushu Nagasaki Sasebo city, it's a "small Europe" which models Holland in the middle ages with beautiful canal, attraction, museums etc. and is especially known as one of the biggest theme park in Japan for its flower festival and illumination Kingdom Celebration.

Huge! Oldest! Various tulips from all over the world are exhibited.

Various tulips from all over the world welcome you in front garden of Palace Huis Ten Bosch.

Leave winter out in the cold!

Explore the world of America's favorite plant during the annual Orchid Daze exhibition celebrating thousands of beautiful blossoms.
Step inside the tropical warmth of the largest orchid center in the United States for a special exhibition of thousands of gorgeous orchids.

Kew Orchids Festival: Colombia!

· Kew’s first ever Orchids Festival on the theme of Colombia

· Colombia is the world’s most biodiverse country for orchids with 4,270 species

· Dazzling displays inspired by Colombia’s wildlife and plant diversity

· Carnival music, street food, coffee and crafts during half term and after-hours events

Colombia’s landscape is as diverse as the flora and fauna that inhabit it, from tropical beaches to snow-capped mountains and everything in between. Home to more orchid species than anywhere else in the world, Colombia’s unparalleled biodiversity and vibrant culture is the inspiration for Kew’s 24th annual Orchids Festival in February 2019.

Stepping into the Princess of Wales Conservatory, visitors will find themselves transported to an entrancing paradise evoking the sights, smells and sounds of Colombia. The experience is an immersive journey through the different zones of the glasshouse where visitors will encounter staggeringly beautiful orchid displays representing …

In its first year at RHS Garden Hyde Hall, visitors will expect to find inspiring displays of beautiful and unusual early spring-flowering bulbs and plants to buy from some of the country's top growers and nurseries.

TULIPMANIA - A Visit to San Francisco Starts at The PIER!

PIER 39’s iconic floral festival, Tulipmania, returns from February 10 – 18 with more than 39,000 blooming tulips and other seasonal garden favorites! As you immerse yourself in insta-heaven, be sure to share your photos using #tulipmania. Enjoy the flowers’ beauty and learn helpful gardening tips by taking free guided tours led by PIER 39’s Landscaping experts. The guided tours depart at 10am daily from the Crab Statue in the Entrance Plaza and end with a special treat from Trish’s Mini Donuts. Self-guided tours can also be taken any time during Tulipmania. Check back for the 2018 Self-Guided Tour. The tulips typically begin blooming in early February and will last through mid-March (weather dependent).

If you are interested in scheduling a private tour for a group of 10 or more, please send an email to mmauser@pier39.com.

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