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Hitachi Seaside Park - A wide variety of seasonal flower gardens!

From Late September to mid October!

In October, kochias (summer cypress) turns the Miharashi hills from green to crimson against the backdrop of the ocean and sky. Cosmoses cover the hillside with flowers of white, pink, and red. Hitachi Seaside Park is in full swing in autumn.

When the spring nemophila blooming is over, it’s time for the kochias. The change from green to crimson is truly dynamic: the Kochia Carnival has started!

Passion for flowers!

More than 15.000 visitors and 120.000 flowers!
Combine this impressive estate with a unique floral event and you will end up in a fairy tale setting. Each year, more than 15,000 visitors are enchanted by these flowers. A beautiful trip for young and old!

The castle will be immersed in a stunning display of floral creativity to celebrate the annual event Fleuramour. No fewer than 35 rooms and halls will be decorated with flowers by over one hundred designers from home and abroad. After many months of preparations, for three days the participating florists will be setting up their creations on site, using more than a hundred thousand flowers. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to admire the beautiful courtyard and interior of the castle and the church, bedecked in a sea of flowers

Experience Fleuramour live with many demos, workshops, fashion shows, … and more.

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Folie'flore is a floral show to discover while walking, under different approaches of day and night.

With 145,000 visitors in 10 days, Folie’Flore is a unique event in Europe staged and illuminated through many gardens specially created for this occasion.The 17th edition of Folie’Flore is already preparing in close collaboration with the Florists in Folie. The National Federation of Florists of France organizes the French Cup of Florists. Gardens full of flowers for the delight of flower enthusiasts and especially photographers …

Its 10,000 m of ephemeral gardens, staged, lights and music, bring an exceptional experience of surprises in discoveries for both the general public and for lovers of botany, landscape art and photographer

Picture credit : mulhousexperience.com

You won't find a prettier garden. Enjoy it!

The most refreshing walk you can do in your life. this garden is immaculately kept and has just the most wonderful trees to see. Right on the water , you won't find a prettier garden. Enjoy it

The Royal Botanic Gardens is a major botanical garden located in the heart of Sydney, Australia. The garden is the oldest scientific institution in Australia and one of the most important historic botanical institutions in the world. Its stunning position on Sydney Harbour and immediately adjacent to the Sydney Opera House ensure it is one of the most stunning gardens in the world.
Founded in 1816, this gem is the oldest garden of its kind in Australia. It has an outstanding collection of flora from the whole world though with a little emphasis on species from the Oceania. We think it is well worth …

TULIPS DOWN UNDER

Visitors will be amazed by the beauty of almost a million Tulips across 25 acres of farmland, all set in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges.

Every day at the festival:

TULIP TRACTOR RIDE
Take a ride on our Tulip Tractor Ride, around the colorful fields. (small fee applies)

REPLICA DUTCH WINDMILLS
Admire our replica Dutch Windmills which are positioned throughout the tulip fields and gardens, great for a photo or two!

PICK YOUR OWN BUNCH OF TULIPS
We have planted a patch of Tulips especially so you can be in the moment and pick some to take home.

GARDEN DISPLAYS
Walk through and admire our historic gardens. You will see more Tulips as well as a variety of other spring flowering bulbs and perennials.

TIP TOE THROUGH THE TULIP FIELDS
This is a must for any visitor to the festival! Make sure you …

Logan is an exotic paradise tucked away on the south-western tip of Scotland and set amidst some of the most majestic scenery the country has to offer.

Famed for its tender collections, Logan's Walled Garden is a showcase for brilliant blooms and is ablaze with colour throughout the season. The fishpond, adorned with water lilies, creates a focal point and embellishes the air of tranquillity within the Garden.

Birds-eye view of the Walled GardenWarmed by the Gulf Stream, the climate provides the ideal growing conditions for an amazing collection of southern hemisphere plants.

The Woodland Garden is also a delight. It is a haven for a host of weird and wonderful plants and trees such as eucalyptus to the gunnera bog.Chusan Palms

A stroll to the highest point will reward visitors with breathtaking views over the Rhins to the Galloway Hills and beyond.

The Discovery Centre, situated near to the …

Translated, Bloemfontein means “fountain of flowers”; however because this capital city is host to the annual rose festival, it has been called the “City of Roses.” Bloemfontein, or Mangaung in the local language, is also the judicial capital of South Africa which makes it one of South Africa’s three capital cities.

In the early 70’s a couple of council members discussed ways to market Bloemfontein to the world. They realized that roses grew very well in the city and October is a particular good month to showcase this wonderful queen of all flowers. And so the Rosefestival was born in 1976.

The main festival happen at Urth Garden Centre. The centre have an Open Air Cafe and boasts the biggest selection of Roses in the Free State. Visitors can join the Rose High Tea, walking through an expo of Green Businesses, and enjoy the tranquil atmosphere. Various other activities also …

It's time to start planning your visit!

The Leura Gardens Festival promises to maintain the high standard of past festivals with several beautiful new gardens for visitors to enjoy as well as a good selection of old favorites.

The Upper Blue Mountains in the spring is a feast of new growth, masses of flowers, gorgeous bulbs and an amazing variety of cold climate plants including wonderful deciduous trees, which will just be coming into their full glory.

Think Spring …. Think Leura

Picture credit : leuragardensfestival.com.au

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

Source and photo credits: http://indulgy.com/

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

If one million bulbs and annuals weren’t impressive enough, Floriade will present its popular after-dark experience NightFest.

Visitors explored amazing outdoor lighting design and production, curated and constructed by the expert team at Mandylights. They designed a parkland-full of impressive lighting installations which excited and delighted. Complementing the bazillion LED lights incorporated into inspired lighting designs, NightFest hosted a swathe of roving entertainment delighting those wandering through the wonderland.

See you at Elmia Garden!

Elmia Garden is the most important trade fair in Northern Europe. It is the meeting place for you who work in the garden industry, you have the opportunity to network and find new contacts. Besides over 3 000 prospective customers Elmia Garden gives you the upcoming trends, seminars, meetings and other activites.

It is at Elmia Garden you'll find out the news and create unique business opportunites. The fair is loaded with inspiration and thousands of visitors who want to see your latest innovations, products and services that can develop their business as they deal with consumers. Elmia Garden is a international meeting place that inspire you to make great business.

Hitachi Seaside Park - A wide variety of seasonal flower gardens!

From Late September to mid October!

In October, kochias (summer cypress) turns the Miharashi hills from green to crimson against the backdrop of the ocean and sky. Cosmoses cover the hillside with flowers of white, pink, and red. Hitachi Seaside Park is in full swing in autumn.

When the spring nemophila blooming is over, it’s time for the kochias. The change from green to crimson is truly dynamic: the Kochia Carnival has started!

THE UK’S BIGGEST WEDDING SHOW

Try, buy, book and hire everything you need for your special day at The National Wedding Show – The destination for wedding planning! With over 300 wedding specialists from bridal boutiques and florists to jewellers and wedding venues, this is the ultimate wedding shopping experience!

THE DESIGNER FLOWER MARKET Featuring displays and floral demonstrations from the UK’s leading florists, the Designer Flower Market will showcase an array of flowers to suit every taste and style.
Whether you are looking for a theme for your wedding flowers or a breath taking centrepiece, you’ll find a plethora of colors and variety of flowers, together with expert advice from a host of top florists.

The big cattle drive in Hopfgarten and Kelchsau is a beautiful and traditional festival, celebrated with local music, Tirolean delicacies and fine, homemade schnapps. The hamlet of Kelchsau with its original village centre provides the perfect backdrop for the farmer’s market on cattle drive day. Most of the cattle have to be herded even further down the valley to their home farms in Hopfgarten and Itter. Hundreds of cows are therefore herded through Hopfgartner Market, where they are received with music and applause.

It's time to start planning your visit!

The Leura Gardens Festival promises to maintain the high standard of past festivals with several beautiful new gardens for visitors to enjoy as well as a good selection of old favorites.

The Upper Blue Mountains in the spring is a feast of new growth, masses of flowers, gorgeous bulbs and an amazing variety of cold climate plants including wonderful deciduous trees, which will just be coming into their full glory.

Think Spring …. Think Leura

Picture credit : leuragardensfestival.com.au

Top gardeners who got awarded in various national and international competitions create a spectacular show garden of 100 square meters large.

Terrace Garden
Tehe terrace garden are very popular every year. It's a dreamy space where you can get so many ideas to apply to your house.

Contaner Hanging, hanging basket
You can easily enjoy splendor and world views from the hanging baskets and container gardening on the veranda or porch. Please appreciate the works with wonderful ideas.

Always plenty for families to enjoy

An autumn extravaganza - September saw a glorious celebration of food, the countryside, gardening & nostalgia.

One of the last shows of the season, Malvern Autumn Show had more than 50 top exhibits where visitors could purchase the finest quality plants from award-winning nurseries. Each year, the show provides a one-stop destination for gardeners in search of advice for preparing and restocking their gardens for the winter months.

The Harvest Pavilion welcomed the largest Home Grown Show in the history of the show. This area saw over 1,500 exhibits from budding growers, along with the RHS specialists theatre and more than 20 national plant societies.

If you love flowers you will definitely enjoy the grand Fiesta Nacional de la Flor!

Looking for a great trip in October? If you love flowers you will definitely enjoy the grand Fiesta Nacional de la Flor, held annually in the Argentine capital. Usually the festival is held between late September and mid-October, and it brings together thousands of flower growers from all over the country and craft exhibitors, local foods and flower parades.

National Flower Festival is considered one of the biggest flower events in Latin America, and Argentina. It is also one of the biggest business opportunities for florists and the like.

Fiesta Nacional de la Flor attracts lots of national and international tourists for its mix of beautiful flowers, local and regional products and food booths from various Argentinian regions.

- Parade of Children's Floats and Election 31ª. National Infant Queen of the Cocoon
Sunday September …

Kalakaua Avenue comes alive with a colorful procession of female and male pau horseback riders, floats covered with Hawaiian flowers, Hawaiian music, hula halau and local marching bands.

The Floral parade drives from Ala Moana Park through Kalakaua Avenue to Kapiolani Park

If one million bulbs and annuals weren’t impressive enough, Floriade will present its popular after-dark experience NightFest.

Visitors explored amazing outdoor lighting design and production, curated and constructed by the expert team at Mandylights. They designed a parkland-full of impressive lighting installations which excited and delighted. Complementing the bazillion LED lights incorporated into inspired lighting designs, NightFest hosted a swathe of roving entertainment delighting those wandering through the wonderland.

This Tuesday Wisley opens its doors to everyone for free.

Come along with friends and family and enjoy the late autumn colour in the Garden. Visit the new Heather Landscape that has been created in 2018, with The National Heather Collection that is held by RHS Garden Wisley. Ribbon planting shows the amazing range of colour and diversity of the 1000 different species and cultivars.

Stay for refreshments at the Food Hall or Glasshouse Café where the focus is on apples during October and sample delicious special dishes with this theme. Later, browse the beautiful Gift Shop for early Christmas gifts or a special treat to remember your day out. Look for RHS exclusive ranges such as Fern items for the home, colourful feminine Anemone bags and stationery, and beautiful Beetles gardening tools and accessories.

The Plant Centre has an extensive range of plants, garden accessories and …

Folie'flore is a floral show to discover while walking, under different approaches of day and night.

With 145,000 visitors in 10 days, Folie’Flore is a unique event in Europe staged and illuminated through many gardens specially created for this occasion.The 17th edition of Folie’Flore is already preparing in close collaboration with the Florists in Folie. The National Federation of Florists of France organizes the French Cup of Florists. Gardens full of flowers for the delight of flower enthusiasts and especially photographers …

Its 10,000 m of ephemeral gardens, staged, lights and music, bring an exceptional experience of surprises in discoveries for both the general public and for lovers of botany, landscape art and photographer

Picture credit : mulhousexperience.com

It's time to start planning your visit!

The Leura Gardens Festival promises to maintain the high standard of past festivals with several beautiful new gardens for visitors to enjoy as well as a good selection of old favorites.

The Upper Blue Mountains in the spring is a feast of new growth, masses of flowers, gorgeous bulbs and an amazing variety of cold climate plants including wonderful deciduous trees, which will just be coming into their full glory.

Think Spring …. Think Leura

Picture credit : leuragardensfestival.com.au

One big garden show every 2nd years

This event will showcase the unique Queensland gardening style and will bring together landscape displays for both large and smaller gardens, gardening experts delivering talks and workshops and of course dozens of nurseries and gardening products displaying all the best of spring gardening plants and products.

Brisbane International Garden Show will offer a huge variety of plants for sale daily with many new release plants and unusual species on offer. Dozens of specialist nurseries will be in attendance with both old favorites and new releases.

Les Festes del Roser is the Festa Major of Barcelona's celebrated La Rambla and take place every year around the Saint's Day of La Mare de Déu del Roser.

Not surprisingly for a festival named after a rose, Les Festes del Roser on La Rambla have the subtitle La Rambla en Flor or La Rambla in Flower so the already flowery and colorful avenue really comes to life.

Buildings are decorated with flowers for the whole week and there are flower stands to be decorated by passers-by located in strategic places.

On the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, there are concerts, street food, a craft fair and, of course, a procession of Gegants leaving from the Palau de la Virreina.

You also can the chance to have a free visit to many of the museums on La Rambla or a guided tour of some of its famous historic buildings, such as …

The colors for the show will be red and yellow!

While many Minnesota gardens are winding down for the winter season, the Sunken Garden at the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory will be in full bloom! The Fall Flower Show features a variety of Chrysanthemums. The colors for the show will be red and yellow. Yellow Swiss Chard and Chili Chilly peppers will serve to accentuate the red and yellow chrysanthemums.

Sunken Garden closed for mid-show change October 29 – November 2

Mayrhofen in the Zillertal Valley is home to one of the most spectacular cattle drives in Tirol. The festivities begin in the morning with a traditional parade in the village. At around midday the decorated cows arrive, and the party goes on throughout the afternoon. There is plenty of live music on several open-air stages and in the local guesthouses and hotels. Visitors can sample some of the most delicious local prooduce at market stands in the village.

Toronto Flower Market celebrates and supports Ontario grown flowers & plants, connecting growers and florists directly with the city. Together, we raise awareness about flower varieties grown locally in fields and greenhouses while cultivating a passionate local flower community.

Founded in May 2013, Toronto Flower Market created the city’s first outdoor flower market. The market season runs monthly from May through October, with special collaborations sprouting up throughout the year.

Natasa Kajganic was inspired to create Toronto Flower Market after a visit to London’s Columbia Road. A vision of stalls bursting with fresh blooms in Toronto’s public spaces was planted in her mind and has kept growing ever since.

“Chrysanthemums give color to autumn.” Have you ever visited a flower festival in which the Chrysanthemum plays the leading role? Every year the Chrysanthemums can be admired in the gardens of the castle of Arcen!
Discover how these beloved plants are cultivated around the world, in all their colorful glory.

Chrysanthemums are autumn flowers, known in Japan as a holy bloom with a heroic status. It is a symbol for longevity, nobility, loyalty and honesty.
You can now get them throughout the entire year to create bouquets and special art works, examples of which you will see at the festival.

This autumn the gardens of the castle of Arcen are transformed into the ‘enchanted gardens,’ where you can walk along an enlightened trail through the park. You will find romantic enlightened gardens, spectacular lightshows and atmospheric sounds. Furthermore you will be able to admire our Chrysanthemums that play …

The oldest plant show in Belgium!

As the oldest plant show in Belgium, carefully selected master growers and collectors from home and abroad are exhibiting an unprecedented variety of special, new and rare garden plants. Each is a specialist in their own domain. Plant Day at Arboretum Kalmthout is an event not to be missed for every flower and plant enthusiast.

Free tours
Enjoy a tour through the Arboretum garden full of autumn colors, berries and rosebuds. Free guided tours in Dutch lasting about 1 hour start hourly from 11am to 4pm. Or join the guided tour walk in French at 2pm.

Special plant daycare
There is a special free plant daycare station for large-scale plant purchasers.

This is a platform not to miss!

HortiFlor Zimbabwe is an International Fair for horticulture (flowers and vegetables) which is bringing companies from Countries such as Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Germany etc and this may open doors for both local and international players in the horticultural field. Exhibitors will include stakeholders in the horticultural industry such as equipment manufacturers, agro chemical companies, produces buyers and growers themselves. If you are passionate about the trends and future of Horticulture, this is a platform not to miss. This is for serious people in business.

Japan's largest flower and plant industry trade show!

The Asia Garden Expo will provide attendees and exhibitors a unique experience to network and develop relationships within the Garden & Green Industry.

Te flower art created by the world's top artists!

Be swept away into a world of flowers from the moment you step inside. The entire venue will be filled with flowers as first-class designers compete, displaying their artistry and skill to become the world's best.

World-renowned flower artists all the rooms of the palace into impressive florals spaces.
Many of the award-winning artists from the international contest will actively join the competition

Picture credit : Huis Ten Bosch