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
Argentina
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires · All yearThe wholesale flower market of Buenos AiresThe city's growers' flower market, now in Barracas, where florists buy in the small hours.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires · Mar to DecThe Rosedal in the Palermo woodsA lakeside rose garden of thousands of bushes, with a white bridge and pergola, in the largest park of Buenos Aires.
🇦🇷 Buenos Aires · NovemberJacaranda month in Buenos AiresIn November thousands of jacarandas flower along the avenues and plazas of Buenos Aires and carpet the pavements in violet.Australia
🇦🇺 Grafton · Oct to NovGrafton Jacaranda FestivalA river town in New South Wales whose avenues of jacarandas flower for a long-running festival.
🇦🇺 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 yearSydney Flower Market at dawnThe wholesale flower hall at Sydney Markets in Flemington, open to the public in the early hours.
🇦🇺 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.
🇧🇷 São Paulo · All yearThe CEAGESP flower fair in São PauloTwice a week before dawn, a hall of São Paulo's giant wholesale market fills with flowers and plants from across the state.
Colombia
🇨🇴 Bogotá · All yearThe dawn flower market at PaloquemaoAt first light, growers from the Bogotá savanna fill the forecourt of Paloquemao market with roses, lilies and sunflowers.
🇨🇴 Bogotá · All yearVisiting a flower farm on the Bogotá savannaA day trip to the greenhouse farms outside Bogotá, to see how export roses and carnations are grown, cut and packed.
🇨🇴 Medellín · All yearMaking a silleta with a grower family in Santa ElenaSpend half a day on a small flower farm above Medellín, hear the family's story and build a small silleta yourself.
🇨🇴 Medellín · All yearThe Orquideorama at Medellín's botanical gardenA city garden with free entry, known for a tall honeycomb canopy of wood and steel that shelters its orchid displays.
Ecuador
🇪🇨 Cayambe · All yearThe rose farms of CayambeA valley on the equator north of Quito where roses grow slowly at altitude into very long stems with large heads.
🇪🇨 Cuenca · All yearThe flower square of CuencaA small daily flower market under white umbrellas, set against a colonial church in the historic centre of Cuenca.
🇪🇨 Quito · All yearOrchid houses of the Quito Botanical GardenA compact garden in La Carolina park that walks you through Ecuador's ecosystems and into two houses full of orchids.
France
🇫🇷 Grasse · All yearBlending your own perfume in GrasseA workshop at one of Grasse's old perfume houses, in the hill town where jasmine and rose are still grown for scent.
🇫🇷 Nice · All yearThe flower market on the Cours SaleyaStriped awnings in Nice's old town sheltering stalls of Riviera cut flowers beside fruit, olives and socca.
🇫🇷 Paris · All yearThe flower market on the Île de la CitéGreen iron pavilions of plants and flowers on the island at the centre of Paris, a short walk from Notre-Dame.
India
🇮🇳 Bengaluru · All yearKR Market flower hallBengaluru's old city market, where the flower floor is best seen from the stairs above.
🇮🇳 Bengaluru · All yearLalbagh and its Glass House flower showsBengaluru's historic botanical garden, with big flower shows around Republic Day and Independence Day.
🇮🇳 Chennai · All yearKoyambedu wholesale flower marketThe flower block of Chennai's vast Koyambedu wholesale complex, busiest before sunrise.
🇮🇳 Delhi · All yearGhazipur phool mandiDelhi's wholesale flower market in the east of the city, where the capital's bouquets and garlands begin.
🇮🇳 Kolkata · All yearMullick Ghat flower market under Howrah BridgeA crowded riverside flower market on the Hooghly, in the shadow of Howrah Bridge.
🇮🇳 Madurai · All yearMadurai malli at the Mattuthavani flower marketThe wholesale market that sets the daily price of Madurai malli, the jasmine the city is famous for.
🇮🇳 Mumbai · All yearDadar flower market at dawnMumbai's wholesale flower market beside Dadar station, at its busiest before the city has had breakfast.
🇮🇳 Nagercoil · All yearThovalai flower marketA village flower market near the southern tip of India that supplies Kerala, above all at Onam.
🇮🇳 Pampore · Oct to NovSaffron harvest in PamporeFor a few weeks each autumn the fields south of Srinagar turn purple with saffron crocus.
🇮🇳 Chandigarh · Jan to DecZakir Hussain Rose GardenChandigarh's large rose garden, with a Rose Festival each February.
🇮🇳 Shillong · NovemberAutumn cherry blossom in ShillongWild Himalayan cherry trees turn the hill capital of Meghalaya pink in November.Indonesia
Japan
🇯🇵 Kanazawa · All yearKenroku-enOne of Japan's most celebrated landscape gardens, with something in flower in almost every season.
🇯🇵 Kyoto · All yearAn ikebana lesson in KyotoLearn the basics of Japanese flower arranging in the city where the art took shape.
🇯🇵 Tokyo · Feb to NovShinjuku Gyoen through the seasonsA large former imperial garden in central Tokyo with a long cherry season and an autumn chrysanthemum show.
🇯🇵 Tokyo · All yearOta Market flower auctionJapan's biggest wholesale flower market, where early risers can watch the auction from a gallery.Kenya
Mexico
🇲🇽 Mexico City · All yearThe plant markets and flower farms of XochimilcoThe canal district in the south of Mexico City whose name means place of the flower fields, and which still grows them.
🇲🇽 Mexico City · All yearMercado de Jamaica, Mexico City's flower marketA huge covered market open day and night, with more than a thousand stalls of cut flowers and finished arrangements.
🇲🇽 Oaxaca · Oct to NovBuilding a Day of the Dead altar in OaxacaBuy marigolds at the market and help dress an ofrenda, the home altar that welcomes the dead in early November.
Netherlands
🇳🇱 Aalsmeer · All yearWatching the Aalsmeer flower auction at dawnThe world's largest flower auction, seen from a gallery above a hall of moving carts near Schiphol airport.
🇳🇱 Amsterdam · All yearThe floating Bloemenmarkt on the SingelA row of flower stalls built on barges along Amsterdam's Singel canal, selling bulbs, seeds and cut tulips.New Zealand
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.
🇿🇦 Cape Town · All yearAdderley Street flower sellersA covered lane off Cape Town's main street where families have sold flowers for generations.
🇿🇦 Cape Town · Aug to NovFynbos walks on the Cape Peninsula and at HermanusDay walks through the Cape floral kingdom, the smallest and one of the richest plant regions on earth.
🇿🇦 Durban · All yearDurban Botanic GardensA subtropical garden founded in 1849, with an orchid house and a famous collection of cycads.
🇿🇦 Plettenberg Bay · Aug to NovGarden Route coastal fynbos walksCoastal paths along South Africa's southern shore, through fynbos and old forest.
🇿🇦 Pretoria · Oct to NovJacaranda season in PretoriaTens of thousands of street trees turn South Africa's capital purple each October.
Thailand
🇹🇭 Bangkok · All yearPak Khlong Talat by nightBangkok's round-the-clock flower market near the river, at its fullest after dark.
🇹🇭 Bangkok · All yearThread a phuang malai garlandA short class in the Thai craft of threading jasmine and other flowers into offering garlands.
🇹🇭 Pattaya · All yearNong Nooch Tropical GardenA very large private botanical garden near Pattaya, known for palms, cycads and orchids.
🇹🇭 Chiang Mai · Jan to DecMon Cham in the cool seasonA ridge-top viewpoint in Mae Rim with terraced vegetable and flower plots and cool mountain air.United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
🇬🇧 London · All yearColumbia Road flower market on a SundayOne short East End street, packed every Sunday with plant and cut flower stalls and the calls of the traders.
🇬🇧 London · All yearNew Covent Garden Flower Market before sunriseLondon's wholesale flower market at Nine Elms, where the city's florists buy in the dark hours and the public may walk in.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 London · All yearA floristry class at a London flower schoolA half day or full day learning to build a hand-tied bouquet with seasonal stems at one of London's flower schools.United States
🇺🇸 Honolulu · All yearMake a lei in HonoluluLearn to string a Hawaiian flower lei, and see the lei stands of Chinatown.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 Los Angeles · All yearThe Los Angeles Flower District at dawnSeveral blocks of wholesale flower halls in downtown Los Angeles, open to the public and busiest before sunrise.
🇺🇸 New York City · All yearThe flower block on West 28th StreetA single Manhattan block where wholesale florists put trees, branches and buckets of flowers out on the pavement each morning.
🇺🇸 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.Vietnam
🇻🇳 Hanoi · All yearQuang Ba night flower marketHanoi's wholesale flower market near West Lake, which trades from the middle of the night until dawn.
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City · All yearHo Thi Ky flower marketHo Chi Minh City's largest flower market, a tangle of lanes in District 10 that trades through the night.
🇻🇳 Da Lat · Jan to DecDa Lat, city of flowersA cool highland town that grows much of Vietnam's cut flowers and holds a flower festival.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Day of the Dead: RubeHM, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Tihar: Sreekumar K. S., CC BY 2.0, source
- Da Lat: Roy Kim, CC BY 2.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Columbia Road Flower Market: SunDawn, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Quito Botanical Garden: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cayambe: Diego Tirira, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria: Rexness, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Sydney Markets: J Bar, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Île de la Cité: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Campo de' Fiori: Carlat82, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Viktualienmarkt: User:Mattes, Public domain, source
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens: By Aaron Logan, CC BY 1.0, source
- Ikebana: Joe Mabel, 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
- 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
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Singapore Botanic Gardens: Calvin teo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Phuang malai: Deror Avi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bogor Botanical Gardens: Talaborn, Public domain, source
- Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: Didier B ( Sam67fr ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Papeete: Remi Jouan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Canang sari: Mx. Granger, CC0, source
- Bahá'í Terraces: Arash Hashemi, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Zakir Husain Rose Garden: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Gardens by the Bay: Shiny Things ., CC BY 2.0, source
- Andromeda Botanic Gardens: Postdlf, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grasse: Olivier Cleynen, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lankester Botanical Garden: Diegobogarin, Public domain, source
- Balata Garden: Mica, CC BY 3.0, source
- Thovalai: Dr. Chinchu C., CC BY 4.0, source
- Aalsmeer Flower Auction: No machine-readable author provided. Miriam8~commonswiki assumed (base, Public domain, source
- Lake Naivasha: javic, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Jacaranda: Kahuroa, Public domain, source
- New Covent Garden Market: EG Focus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Madurai Malli: எஸ்ஸார், CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Shinjuku Gyoen: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kenroku-en: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, source
- Pak Khlong Talat: Sry85, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bloemenmarkt: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape Floral Region Protected Areas: Rialfver at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mercado Jamaica: Carlos Adampol Galindo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Parque Tres de Febrero: Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, CC BY 2.0, source
- Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex: Sudhamshu Hebbar, CC BY 2.0, source
- K. R. Market: Pp391, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mercado dos Lavradores: Luke H. Gordon, CC BY 2.0, source
- Dubai Miracle Garden: Dmg200, CC BY 4.0, source
- Grafton: Tim Keegan, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Dadar Flower Market Mumbai: Swaminathan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mullick Ghat Flower Market Kolkata: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shillong Cherry Blossom: Windrider24584 at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0, source
- Pampore Saffron Harvest: Ashfaq ahanger, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Yangjae Flower Market Seoul: Izolight, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dounan Flower Market Kunming: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Jianguo Holiday Flower Market Taipei: This Photo was taken by Supanut Arunoprayote . Feel free to use any of, CC BY 4.0, source
- Mon Cham Chiang Mai: Hdamm, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Quang Ba Flower Market Hanoi: Newone, Public domain, source
- Ho Thi Ky Flower Market Saigon: WIN vietnam, CC BY 3.0, source
- Godkhali Flower Market Jashore: Mahabur.rahman2, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Pretoria Jacarandas: Petrus Potgieter, Petrus at en.wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Adderley Street Flower Sellers: HelenOnline, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Garden Route Fynbos: Diriye Amey, CC BY 2.0, source
- Nairobi City Market Flowers: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lake Tekapo Lupins: Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rambla De Les Flors Barcelona: Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2, source
- Riga Night Flower Market: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- New York 28th Street Flower District: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Xochimilco Plant Markets: Jflo23, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ruta De Las Flores El Salvador: ClauH0288, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Soroa Orchid Garden Cuba: Ji-Elle, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Paloquemao Flower Market Bogota: Felipe Restrepo Acosta, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Bogota Savanna Flower Farms: No machine-readable author provided. Tequendamia assumed (based on cop, Public domain, source
- Cuenca Plaza De Las Flores: amalavida.tv, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Lima Piedra Liza Flower Market: AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Patagonia Lupins Carretera Austral: Rakela, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Buenos Aires Mercado De Flores: Jorge Gobbi, CC BY 2.0, source