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
🇦🇺 Canberra · Sep to OctFloriade in CanberraAustralia's big spring bulb show, a month of tulips and annuals in a lakeside park.
🇦🇺 Launceston · Jan to DecTasmanian lavender and tulip farmsTwo farm seasons in northern Tasmania: tulips on a sea cliff in spring, lavender in midsummer.
🇦🇺 Melbourne · All yearRoyal Botanic Gardens MelbourneA landscaped garden of lakes, lawns and long views on the south bank of the Yarra.
🇦🇺 Perth · Jul to OctWildflower country north of PerthA spring road trip through the wheatbelt and coast of Western Australia, among carpets of everlastings.
🇦🇺 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.
🇧🇷 Brasília · Jun to SepThe ipê trees of Brasília in the dry seasonIn the dry months, leafless ipê trees across Brasília flower in turn: pink and purple, then yellow, then white.
🇧🇷 Holambra · Aug to SepHolambra, Brazil's flower town, and its ExpofloraA small town founded by Dutch settlers that grows a large share of Brazil's flowers and holds a big flower fair each spring.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.China
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
🇫🇷 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.
🇫🇷 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.
🇫🇷 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.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.
🇮🇳 Munnar · Aug to OctNeelakurinji bloom in the hills of MunnarA shrub that turns the high grasslands of Kerala blue once every twelve years. The next mass bloom is expected in 2030.
🇮🇳 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.
🇮🇳 Satara · Aug to OctKaas plateau in flowerA rocky plateau in the Western Ghats that is carpeted with tiny wildflowers after the monsoon.
🇮🇳 Srinagar · Apr to OctThe Mughal gardens of SrinagarTerraced seventeenth-century gardens above Dal Lake, with water channels, chinar trees and flower beds.
🇮🇳 Chamoli · Jul to SepValley of Flowers trekA high Himalayan valley in Uttarakhand that fills with alpine flowers during the monsoon.
🇮🇳 Kochi · Aug to SepMake a pookalam at OnamFor the ten days of Onam, Kerala lays flower carpets at its doorsteps. Visitors can join in.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 · All yearOta Market flower auctionJapan's biggest wholesale flower market, where early risers can watch the auction from a gallery.
🇯🇵 Biei · Jun to SepBiei flower fields and the Patchwork RoadA cycling and driving circuit through rolling farmland and striped flower hills north of Furano.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.
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.
Portugal
🇵🇹 Funchal · All yearFlower sellers at the Mercado dos LavradoresFunchal's 1940 farmers' market, where women in striped Madeiran dress sell bird of paradise, proteas and orchids.
🇵🇹 Funchal · Apr to SepLevada walks through Madeira's flowersLevel footpaths beside Madeira's old irrigation channels, through laurel forest and banks of agapanthus and hydrangea.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.
🇿🇦 Cape Town · Aug to SepThe flower route from Cape Town to NieuwoudtvilleA spring road trip north from Cape Town through a chain of wildflower reserves.
🇿🇦 Springbok · Aug to SepNamaqualand daisy seasonA semi-desert in the north-west of South Africa that turns orange with daisies after winter rain.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.
🇪🇸 Granada · Apr to OctThe Generalife gardens above the AlhambraThe summer estate of Granada's Nasrid rulers, where water channels run between roses, myrtle, jasmine and orange trees.
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 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.
🇬🇧 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.
🇺🇸 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.
🇺🇸 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.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.Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Onam: Jiteshgt, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Shalimar Bagh: ANSAR AHMAD, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kaas Plateau: Nilrocks, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- International Rose Test Garden: PiccoloNamek, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- 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
- 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
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Montreal Botanical Garden: GarrettRock at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Namaqualand: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, 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
- 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
- Floriade: Ashishlohorung, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Neelakurinji: Suresh Krishna, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Grasse: Olivier Cleynen, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lankester Botanical Garden: Diegobogarin, Public domain, source
- Biei: Yasu ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, 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
- Generalife: Charles J. Sharp, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Valley of Flowers National Park: Naresh Chandra, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Lake Naivasha: javic, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- New York Botanical Garden: Anthony22 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- New Covent Garden Market: EG Focus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Madurai Malli: எஸ்ஸார், 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
- Château de Bagatelle: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, source
- Château de Villandry: No machine-readable author provided. LonganimE assumed (based on copyr, CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Great Dixter: Miles Berry, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Mainau: Rizzo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Isola Bella: MarkusMark, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- West Coast National Park: Winfried Bruenken ( Amrum ), CC BY-SA 2.5, 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
- Table Cape: NeoGeneric, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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
- Ooty: Hemant meena, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Holambra: Allice Hunter, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Enkutatash: Nati Tad, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Dadar Flower Market Mumbai: Swaminathan, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mullick Ghat Flower Market Kolkata: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- 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
- Quang Ba Flower Market Hanoi: Newone, Public domain, source
- Ho Thi Ky Flower Market Saigon: WIN vietnam, CC BY 3.0, 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
- 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
- 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