A Walk in the Flowers

Floriade is Canberra's Festival of Flowers.








Each year for about 4 weeks from mid-September to mid-October the gardens of Commonwealth Park are a blaze of colour as thousands of tulips, bluebells, violas and other flowers bloom.











Floriade began in 1988 when the Dutch Government donated thousands of bulbs to the nation's capital for the bicentennial celebrations.

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This morning we spent a very enjoyable couple of hours just wandering along the paths looking at the flowers, taking in the ambiance and taking plenty of photos.  The tradition has been maintained over the past 25 years and it's now an established fixture in the Canberra springtime calendar.  New gardens are planted each year with mass plantings illustrating a theme.  This year the theme is "Reflection: and the garden beds are planted to show iconic symbols of war and peace and are floral tributes to the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli in 1915.

It's been a few years since we visited Floriade - we used to make the trip most years over the October long weekend when we lived in Sydney - and it was good to get back.


After our walk around Floriade we drove through Reid and past the house where Robert grew up.