The flower calendar
119 days and seasons of the year in which flowers are the point: festivals, parades, shows, bloom seasons, holy days and days for giving. Dates are worked out afresh every day.
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October 2026
On now, around 12 Sept to 11 Oct 2026FloriadeCanberra's free spring festival: about a million bulbs and annuals in a park by the lake.
On now, around 1 Oct to 9 Nov 2026Jacaranda season in PretoriaTens of thousands of jacaranda trees turn South Africa's capital purple in October.
8 Oct to 6 Dec 2026Dubai Miracle Garden seasonA garden of many millions of flowers in the desert reopens for the cool months.
March 2027
around 15 Mar to 28 Apr 2027Taif rose seasonIn the mountains above Mecca, pink damask roses are picked at dawn and distilled into rose oil.
18 Mar to 9 May 2027Keukenhof seasonThe Dutch bulb garden at Lisse opens for eight weeks of tulips, hyacinths and daffodils.
around 20 Mar to 12 Apr 2027National Cherry Blossom FestivalWashington marks Tokyo's gift of cherry trees with a festival timed to their bloom around the Tidal Basin.
around 22 Mar to 20 Apr 2027HanamiCherry blossom viewing in Japan, as the bloom moves north through the country in spring.
around 23 Mar to 21 Apr 2027Srinagar Tulip Garden seasonTerraces of tulips above Dal Lake open for about a month each spring.
around 27 Mar to 5 Apr 2027Jinhae GunhangjeKorea's largest cherry blossom festival, in a naval port town lined with hundreds of thousands of trees.April 2027
1 to 30 Apr 2027Skagit Valley Tulip FestivalThrough April, working bulb farms north of Seattle open their tulip fields to visitors.
around 1 to 30 Apr 2027Istanbul Tulip FestivalEach April the city plants its parks and roadsides with millions of tulips, a flower it gave to Europe.
around 1 Apr to 5 May 2027Luoyang Peony FestivalThe old capital of Luoyang opens its peony gardens for the few weeks the tree peonies are in flower.
around 15 Apr to 19 May 2027Great Wisteria FestivalAt Ashikaga Flower Park, very old wisteria vines trained over frames flower in sheets of purple.
around 20 Apr to 10 May 2027Bluebell seasonFor about three weeks, old woods in Britain and Belgium turn blue from end to end.May 2027
around 5 May to 3 Jun 2027Qamsar rosewater seasonVillages near Kashan pick damask roses at dawn and distil them into golab, Iranian rosewater.
around 14 to 24 May 2027Canadian Tulip FestivalOttawa's tulips are a thank-you from the Dutch royal family, renewed with fresh bulbs every year.
around 15 May to 13 Jun 2027Isparta rose harvestTurkey's rose province picks its damask roses at dawn, from mid May to mid June.June 2027
Dates marked "around" shift from year to year with the weather or the organisers. Check before you travel.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Hanami: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- National Cherry Blossom Festival: MBisanz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden: Kevin.abraham335, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Keukenhof: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bigleaf Hydrangea: belvedere04, CC BY 4.0, source
- Namaqualand: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Floriade: Ashishlohorung, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Canadian Tulip Festival: Andrew Scheer, CC0, source
- Skagit Valley Tulip Festival: Gina, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jinhae Gunhangje Festival: hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tulip festival: GoToVan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Valley of Flowers National Park: Naresh Chandra, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Amrit Udyan Season: This image was produced by me, David Castor ( user:dcastor ). The pict, Public domain, source
- Taif Rose Season: عباد ديرانية, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jacaranda Season Walks: Kahuroa, Public domain, source
- Luoyang Peony Festival: Rialfver Original uploader was Rialfver at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bluebell Season: JackyM59, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Qamsar Rosewater Season: Farzad Yousefian, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Isparta Rose Harvest: Isparta at Turkish Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Dubai Miracle Garden Season: Dmg200, CC BY 4.0, source