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
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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.Australia
🇦🇺 Melbourne · All yearRoyal Botanic Gardens MelbourneA landscaped garden of lakes, lawns and long views on the south bank of the Yarra.
🇦🇺 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.
China
🇨🇳 Kunming · All yearDounan flower marketChina's largest cut-flower market, where much of the trade happens in the evening.
🇨🇳 Suzhou · Mar to OctClassical gardens of SuzhouScholar gardens of rock, water and pavilions, where each season has its chosen flower.
🇨🇳 Luoping · Feb to MarLuoping canola flower seaYellow rapeseed fields stretching between small limestone hills in eastern Yunnan.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.Germany
🇩🇪 Konstanz · Mar to OctMainau, the flower island of Lake ConstanceA small island reached by a footbridge, planted as one large garden with a flower calendar from tulips to dahlias.
🇩🇪 Munich · All yearFlower stalls of the ViktualienmarktMunich's daily open-air food market, with a section of florists selling seasonal bunches, wreaths and dried flowers.
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.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 Chandigarh · Jan to DecZakir Hussain Rose GardenChandigarh's large rose garden, with a Rose Festival each February.
🇮🇳 Kannauj · Feb to AprAttar distilling in KannaujAn old perfume town on the Ganges where roses and other flowers are distilled in copper pots.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 Srinagar · Mar to AprTulip garden of SrinagarA hillside of tulips above Dal Lake, open for only a few weeks each spring.Indonesia
Italy
🇮🇹 Rome · All yearMorning flower stalls on Campo de' FioriA daily market square in central Rome whose name means field of flowers, with flower sellers at one end.
🇮🇹 Stresa · Mar to OctThe terraced garden of Isola BellaA Baroque palace garden on a small island in Lake Maggiore, built up in ten terraces like the stern of a ship.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.
🇯🇵 Kyoto · Mar to AprPhilosopher's Path in cherry seasonA canal-side walk of about two kilometres in eastern Kyoto, lined with cherry trees.
🇯🇵 Tokyo · Mar to AprCherry blossom season in TokyoAbout a week of pale pink along moats, rivers and parks, and the picnics that go with it.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.
🇲🇽 Mexico City · Mar to AprJacaranda season in Mexico CityFrom late February into April, jacaranda trees turn the avenues and parks of Mexico City violet.
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.
🇳🇱 Lisse · Mar to MayKeukenhof in tulip seasonA woodland park in Lisse planted each autumn with millions of bulbs and open for about eight weeks in spring.
Philippines
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.
🇿🇦 Durban · All yearDurban Botanic GardensA subtropical garden founded in 1849, with an orchid house and a famous collection of cycads.South Korea
Spain
🇪🇸 Barcelona · All yearThe flower kiosks of La RamblaA stretch of Barcelona's central promenade lined with flower kiosks since the nineteenth century, busiest on 23 April.
🇪🇸 Plasencia · Mar to AprCherry blossom in the Jerte valleyA mountain valley in Extremadura where terraces of cherry orchards flower white together for about ten days in early spring.
Taiwan
🇹🇼 Taipei · All yearJianguo holiday flower marketA weekend plant and flower market that sets up under an elevated road in central Taipei.
🇹🇼 Taipei · Feb to MayYangmingshan flower season and the calla lilies of ZhuzihuCherry and azalea on the mountain above Taipei, then white calla lilies in a farmed valley.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.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.
🇬🇧 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.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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 Borrego Springs · Feb to MarDesert wildflowers at Anza-BorregoAfter a wet winter, the desert floor around Borrego Springs fills with verbena, primrose and desert sunflowers.
🇺🇸 Carlsbad · Mar to MayThe ranunculus fields of CarlsbadA hillside above the Pacific planted in wide stripes of giant ranunculus, open to visitors each spring.
🇺🇸 Fredericksburg · Mar to AprA bluebonnet drive through the Texas Hill CountryBack roads west of Austin where bluebonnets and paintbrush line the verges and fill the pastures in early spring.
🇺🇸 Lancaster · Mar to MayCalifornia poppies in the Antelope ValleyA state reserve in the high desert north of Los Angeles where hills turn orange with California poppies in a good spring.
🇺🇸 Washington, D.C. · Mar to AprCherry blossom around the Tidal BasinThousands of Japanese cherry trees flower around the Tidal Basin and the memorials in late March or early April.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.
- Hanami: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- National Cherry Blossom Festival: MBisanz, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kannauj: Nature lusty vikash, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Luoping County: Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Yangmingshan National Park: H8010110, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Da Lat: Roy Kim, CC BY 2.0, source
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- RHS Garden Wisley: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Columbia Road Flower Market: SunDawn, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Longwood Gardens: P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve: Thomas, CC BY 2.0, source
- Anza-Borrego Desert State Park: No machine-readable author provided. Miskatonic assumed (based on copy, CC BY 2.5, 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
- Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden: Kevin.abraham335, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ikebana: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Panagbenga Festival: lolay, 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
- Annapurna Conservation Area: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, source
- Wholesale Flower Markets: EG Focus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Taif Rose Season: عباد ديرانية, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Jacaranda Season Walks: Kahuroa, Public domain, source
- Dubai Miracle Garden Season: Dmg200, CC BY 4.0, source
- Kr Market Bengaluru: Pp391, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Dadar Flower Market Mumbai: Swaminathan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mullick Ghat Flower Market Kolkata: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Koyambedu Flower Market Chennai: Sudhamshu Hebbar, CC BY 2.0, source
- Madurai Jasmine Market: எஸ்ஸார், CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Philosophers Path Kyoto: David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kenroku En Kanazawa: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, 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
- Pak Khlong Talat Bangkok: Sry85, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Jebel Akhdar Rose Season: Philipp Weigell, CC BY 3.0, source
- Adderley Street Flower Sellers: HelenOnline, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nairobi City Market Flowers: Daryona, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lake Naivasha Flower Farms: javic, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Jerte Valley Cherry Blossom: DavidGranda, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bloemenmarkt Amsterdam: Massimo Catarinella, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rambla De Les Flors Barcelona: Ralf Roletschek, GFDL 1.2, source
- Riga Night Flower Market: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mercado Dos Lavradores Funchal: Luke H. Gordon, 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
- Carlsbad Flower Fields Ranunculus: User:Muteknee, Public domain, source
- New York 28th Street Flower District: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- New York Botanical Garden: Anthony22 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Texas Hill Country Wildflower Drive: Zereshk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Xochimilco Plant Markets: Jflo23, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mercado De Jamaica Mexico City: Carlos Adampol Galindo, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Antigua Guatemala Holy Week Carpets: Chad Davis, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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
- Buenos Aires Mercado De Flores: Jorge Gobbi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Rosedal De Palermo Buenos Aires: Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, CC BY 2.0, source