On now: around 11 Sept to 4 Oct 2026
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
Queensland's garden city spends September in bloom, with a floral parade through the centre.
What happens
Toowoomba sits on the edge of the Great Dividing Range in Queensland, high enough for cool-climate flowers. Its Carnival of Flowers began around 1950 and now fills most of September. The city council plants its parks with many thousands of seedlings and bulbs, timed to peak for the carnival. Queens Park and Laurel Bank Park are the main displays. On one Saturday a parade of floats decorated with flowers passes through the streets, and private gardens that have entered the garden competition open to visitors.
The flowers
Also part of it, and being written: Pansy (Massed in the borders of Queens Park.).
Original text by the Phool desk, written with AI assistance. Background: "Carnival of Flowers" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If we have something wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Tulip: John O'Neill, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buttercup: Hanay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source