Floriade, Canberra’s annual springtime flower festival, opened on Saturday 16 September – and the beautiful weather set the scene for a perfect opening to the four-week event, the ACT Government states.
Canberrans dug deep during Floriade, Australia’s biggest celebration of Spring, this year, with more than $70,000 raised for local charities as part of The Great Big Bulb Dig and other on-site activities.
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Floriade is back with a bang; the bang of a drum, that is, as the festival’s 35th installment praises the ‘Sounds of Spring’. For the first time since 2019, the month-long festivities return to Commonwealth Park from 17 September to 16 October.
With Floriade less than two weeks away, Floyd the Floriade gnome has been busy with preparations. His large family thought this would be a great chance to branch out from commonwealth park and see more of our beautiful city, but they have gotten lost! Now, Floyd needs our help to locate his 35 lost relatives as their absence is keeping him from putting the finishing touches on the flower beds.
Canberra’s annual celebration of spring, Floriade has announced a new presenting partner for the next three years in Synergy Group, a forward-thinking local consultancy firm.