Flower places
Gardens, flower markets, bloom fields and festivals to visit, city by city. 457 places so far, best known first.
Botanical gardensLiving collections of plants, labelled and open to visitors.306Flower gardens and parksGardens made to be looked at: rose gardens, tulip parks, palace gardens.269Flower marketsWhere flowers are bought and sold, from dawn mandis to auction halls.8Bloom fields and wild placesValleys, fields, forests and deserts known for a season of flowers.49Festivals and showsPlaces and events where flowers are the reason to come.65
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Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
A month-long tulip festival in Skagit Valley, Washington each April
Mount Vernon, 🇺🇸 United States · Festival or show, April
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Rochester Lilac Festival
A ten-day spring festival among 1,200 lilac bushes in Rochester, New York
Rochester, 🇺🇸 United States · Festival or show, May
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Tesselaar Tulip Festival
A spring tulip festival on a working flower farm in Silvan, Victoria
Silvan, 🇦🇺 Australia · Festival or show, Sep to Oct
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North Carolina Azalea Festival
Annual spring festival celebrating gardens and azaleas in Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, 🇺🇸 United States · Festival or show, April
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Nezu Shrine根津神社
Historic Shinto shrine in Tokyo known for its spring azalea festival
Bunkyō, 🇯🇵 Japan · Festival or show, Apr to May
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GrasseGrassa
French Riviera town famed for its perfume industry and flower fields
Grasse, 🇫🇷 France · Festival or show, May to Aug
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Commonwealth Park
Canberra’s central park and the site of the annual Floriade flower festival
Canberra, 🇦🇺 Australia · Flower garden, Sep to Oct
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Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers
Annual spring flower festival in Toowoomba, Queensland
Toowoomba, 🇦🇺 Australia · Festival or show, September
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Thanksgiving Point
A large garden, museum, and farm complex in Lehi, Utah
Lehi, 🇺🇸 United States · Botanical garden
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Villa Cimbrone
A cliffside villa and garden on Italy's Amalfi Coast
Ravello, 🇮🇹 Italy · Flower garden
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Westfalenpark
A major city park in Dortmund with roses, concerts and a landmark tower
Dortmund, 🇩🇪 Germany · Flower garden
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Lüneburg HeathLüneburger Heide
A historic heathland landscape in northern Germany
Lüneburg, 🇩🇪 Germany · Bloom site
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Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild
A pink seaside villa with nine themed gardens on the French Riviera
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 🇫🇷 France · Flower garden, Jun to Aug
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Trentham Gardens
Restored Italianate gardens and parkland near Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Flower garden
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Barnsley House
A 17th-century manor house and garden in Gloucestershire, now a hotel
Barnsley, 🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Flower garden
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Pa Hin Ngam National Parkป่าหินงาม
A Thai national park famed for stone formations and Siam tulip fields
Chaiyaphum Province, 🇹🇭 Thailand · Bloom site, July
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Adachi Museum of Art足立美術館
A Japanese art museum famed for its gardens and modern paintings
Yasugi, 🇯🇵 Japan · Botanical garden
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Skagit Valley Tulip Festival: Gina, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Rochester Lilac Festival: Matthew D. Wilson ( LtPowers ), CC BY-SA 2.5, source
- Tesselaar Tulip Festival: 22Kartika, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- North Carolina Azalea Festival: Infoazalea, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Nezu Shrine: Wiiii, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Grasse: Olivier Cleynen, CC BY 4.0, source
- Commonwealth Park: Lorienismo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers: Sheba_Also 43,000 photos, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Thanksgiving Point: Erivan79 ( talk ) ( Uploads ), CC BY 2.5, source
- Villa Cimbrone: Wa at German Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Westfalenpark: Mbdortmund, GFDL 1.2, source
- Lüneburg Heath: Axel Hindemith, CC BY 3.0, source
- Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Trentham Gardens: Photograph by Mike Peel ( www.mikepeel.net )., CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Barnsley House: Robin Stott, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Pa Hin Ngam National Park: Ahoerstemeier, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Adachi Museum of Art: 663highland, CC BY 2.5, source