Flower experiences
201 things to do with flowers around the world, city by city: bloom seasons, flower markets, gardens, routes and workshops, each with the months to go. Think of it as a food tour, for flowers.
Presented by ClearTrust Free for gardeners, florists, travellers and the curious.
KindAllBloom seasons and flower fieldsFlower marketsGardens worth a journeyFlower routes and walksWorkshops and hands-on
CountryAll🇦🇷 Argentina🇦🇺 Australia🇧🇩 Bangladesh🇧🇧 Barbados🇧🇪 Belgium🇧🇷 Brazil🇧🇬 Bulgaria🇨🇦 Canada🇨🇱 Chile🇨🇳 China🇨🇴 Colombia🇨🇷 Costa Rica🇨🇺 Cuba🇪🇨 Ecuador🇸🇻 El Salvador🇪🇹 Ethiopia🇫🇷 France🇩🇪 Germany🇬🇹 Guatemala🇭🇰 Hong Kong🇮🇸 Iceland🇮🇳 India🇮🇩 Indonesia🇮🇷 Iran🇮🇱 Israel🇮🇹 Italy🇯🇵 Japan🇰🇿 Kazakhstan🇰🇪 Kenya🇱🇻 Latvia🇲🇺 Mauritius🇲🇽 Mexico🇲🇦 Morocco🇳🇵 Nepal🇳🇱 Netherlands🇳🇿 New Zealand🇴🇲 Oman🇵🇦 Panama🇵🇪 Peru🇵🇭 Philippines🇵🇹 Portugal🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia🇸🇬 Singapore🇿🇦 South Africa🇰🇷 South Korea🇪🇸 Spain🇱🇰 Sri Lanka🇹🇼 Taiwan🇹🇭 Thailand🇹🇷 Turkey🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇺🇸 United States🇻🇳 Vietnam
Australia
🇦🇺 Melbourne · All yearRoyal Botanic Gardens MelbourneA landscaped garden of lakes, lawns and long views on the south bank of the Yarra.
🇦🇺 Perth · Aug to NovKings Park and the Western Australian Botanic GardenA bushland park above Perth with a botanic garden devoted to the flora of Western Australia.
🇦🇺 Sydney · All yearRoyal Botanic Garden SydneyA harbourside garden founded in 1816, beside the Opera House, with native and exotic collections.
Brazil
🇧🇷 Curitiba · All yearThe glasshouse and parterres of Curitiba's botanical gardenThe postcard view of Curitiba: a white metal and glass greenhouse above French-style flower beds and fountains.
🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro · All yearThe Jardim Botânico of Rio de JaneiroA botanic garden founded in 1808 at the foot of Corcovado, with an avenue of royal palms, an orchid house and giant waterlilies.Canada
🇨🇦 Montreal · May to OctThe Montreal Botanical GardenOne of the world's large botanic gardens, with Chinese and Japanese gardens, a lilac collection and long rose beds.
🇨🇦 Victoria · Mar to OctThe Butchart Gardens near VictoriaA worked-out limestone quarry on Vancouver Island that one family turned into a sunken garden of bedding and bulbs.
France
🇫🇷 Giverny · Apr to OctMonet's garden and water lily pond at GivernyThe flower garden and lily pond that Claude Monet made in Normandy and painted for the last decades of his life.
🇫🇷 Villandry · Apr to OctThe Renaissance gardens of VillandryA Loire château whose terraces hold clipped box parterres filled with flowers and an ornamental kitchen garden.
🇫🇷 Paris · May to SepThe rose garden of BagatelleA park in the Bois de Boulogne with about ten thousand rose bushes and a yearly international contest for new roses.
India
🇮🇳 Bengaluru · All yearLalbagh and its Glass House flower showsBengaluru's historic botanical garden, with big flower shows around Republic Day and Independence Day.
🇮🇳 Ooty · Mar to OctOoty Botanical Garden and its May flower showA terraced hill-station garden in the Nilgiris, known for its annual summer flower show.
🇮🇳 Srinagar · Apr to OctThe Mughal gardens of SrinagarTerraced seventeenth-century gardens above Dal Lake, with water channels, chinar trees and flower beds.
🇮🇳 Chandigarh · Jan to DecZakir Hussain Rose GardenChandigarh's large rose garden, with a Rose Festival each February.
🇮🇳 New Delhi · Feb to MarAmrit Udyan at Rashtrapati BhavanThe formal gardens of India's presidential palace, opened to the public each year in late winter.
🇮🇳 Ooty · Mar to OctOoty Botanical Garden and its May flower showA terraced hill-station garden in the Nilgiris, known for its annual summer flower show.
🇮🇳 Srinagar · Apr to OctThe Mughal gardens of SrinagarTerraced seventeenth-century gardens above Dal Lake, with water channels, chinar trees and flower beds.
🇮🇳 Chandigarh · Jan to DecZakir Hussain Rose GardenChandigarh's large rose garden, with a Rose Festival each February.
🇮🇳 New Delhi · Feb to MarAmrit Udyan at Rashtrapati BhavanThe formal gardens of India's presidential palace, opened to the public each year in late winter.
Japan
Singapore
🇸🇬 Singapore · All yearSingapore Botanic Gardens and the National Orchid GardenA tropical garden and UNESCO World Heritage Site, with one of the great orchid collections.
🇸🇬 Singapore · All yearGardens by the BayA waterfront park of giant planted towers and two cooled glasshouses with changing flower shows.South Africa
🇿🇦 Cape Town · All yearKirstenbosch National Botanical GardenA garden of South African plants on the slopes of Table Mountain, at its best from late winter to spring.
🇿🇦 Durban · All yearDurban Botanic GardensA subtropical garden founded in 1849, with an orchid house and a famous collection of cycads.
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
🇬🇧 London · All yearA day at the Royal Botanic Gardens, KewOne of the world's great botanic gardens, with Victorian glasshouses, a huge tree collection and flowers in every month.
🇬🇧 Rye · Apr to OctGreat Dixter's long border and meadowsThe East Sussex home of the gardener Christopher Lloyd, famous for bold colour, dense planting and flowering meadows.
🇬🇧 Woking · Mar to OctRHS Garden Wisley through the seasonsThe Royal Horticultural Society's main garden in Surrey, where plants are tested, compared and shown at their best.
🇬🇧 Cranbrook · Apr to SepThe garden rooms of SissinghurstA Kent garden of hedged rooms made by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, known above all for its White Garden.United States
🇺🇸 Austin · Mar to OctThe Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower CenterA botanic garden in Austin given over entirely to the native plants of Texas, at its best in bluebonnet season.
🇺🇸 Kennett Square · All yearLongwood Gardens and its conservatoryThe former du Pont estate in Pennsylvania, with a vast glass conservatory, fountains and flower displays in every season.
🇺🇸 New York City · Feb to OctThe New York Botanical Garden in the BronxA 250-acre garden with a Victorian-style glasshouse, a late winter orchid show, an azalea hillside and a large rose garden.
🇺🇸 San Marino · Jan to DecThe Huntington's rose, camellia and desert gardensA library and art estate near Pasadena with more than a dozen themed gardens, strongest in winter and spring.
🇺🇸 New York City · Apr to JunCherry Esplanade at the Brooklyn Botanic GardenA city botanic garden known for its lawn lined with double pink cherries, its bluebell wood and its rose garden.
🇺🇸 Portland · May to SepPortland's International Rose Test GardenA terraced public rose garden in Portland's Washington Park, where new varieties have been tested since 1917.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Shalimar Bagh: ANSAR AHMAD, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- RHS Garden Wisley: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- International Rose Test Garden: PiccoloNamek, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Quito Botanical Garden: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria: Rexness, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens: By Aaron Logan, CC BY 1.0, source
- Keukenhof: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden: tsc_traveler [2], CC BY 2.0, source
- Royal Botanic Garden Sydney: Pavel, CC BY 2.0, source
- Botanical Garden of Curitiba: SamirNosteb, CC BY-SA 2.5 br, source
- Shinjuku Gyoen: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kings Park: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden: Lonelyplanet, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, source
- Nong Nooch Tropical Botanical Garden: Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Christchurch Botanic Gardens: Szilas, Public domain, source
- Durban Botanic Gardens: Purves, M. ( Michaelwild at en.wikipedia ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Majorelle Garden: Viault, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Classical Gardens of Suzhou: Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center: Frank Wolfe, Public domain, source
- Singapore Botanic Gardens: Calvin teo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Claude Monet Foundation: Fondation Monet, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Montreal Botanical Garden: GarrettRock at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Butchart Gardens: Marcus, CC BY-SA 1.0, source
- Bogor Botanical Gardens: Talaborn, Public domain, source
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Didier B ( Sam67fr ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Bahá'í Terraces: Arash Hashemi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zakir Husain Rose Garden: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Eram Garden: Siamak.ess, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gardens by the Bay: Shiny Things ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Sissinghurst Castle Garden: Hans Bernhard ( Schnobby ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Andromeda Botanic Gardens: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lankester Botanical Garden: Diegobogarin, Public domain, source
- Balata Garden: Mica, CC BY 3.0, source
- Generalife: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dubai Miracle Garden Season: Dmg200, CC BY 4.0, source
- Amrit Udyan Delhi: Anita Mary P X, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ooty Botanical Garden Flower Show: Hemant meena, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kenroku En Kanazawa: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, source
- Great Dixter Garden: Miles Berry, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Villandry Gardens: No machine-readable author provided. LonganimE assumed (based on copyr, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Bagatelle Rose Garden Paris: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, source
- Isola Bella Terraced Garden: MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mainau Flower Island: Rizzo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- New York Botanical Garden: Anthony22 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Soroa Orchid Garden Cuba: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rosedal De Palermo Buenos Aires: Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, CC BY 2.0, source