Canberra’s Floriade
Canberra has its Floriade spring festival every year. I haven’t been for several years, so today, with nothing better to do for an hour or so, and keen to play with my digicam, decided to pay a visit. It hasn’t changed much over the years, but its worth a look. It is, as usual, full of people.
It is apparently a big drawcard for tourists to come to Canberra - which is why it was started about 10-15 years (??) ago. Busloads come from Sydney and other places. At one stage our local government, in its great wisdom, tried charging $10 admission. That only lasted a couple of years - now its free.
There’s a bit of a kerfuffle about a rival Floriade which has started up in the Hunter Valley. No doubt there’ll be lawyers at 40 paces sometime. A bit rich though, Canberra knocked the idea off from somewhere in Europe if my memory serves me correctly.
Floraide 
September 23rd, 2005 at 10:20 pm
Another great blog man! What a 4 you are! I couldn’t derive half the fantastic ideas that you come up with.
My stepping stones garden site is off topic but still noteworthy. Why aren’t you in advertising or better yet a “think tank”. Can you teach this kind of creative thinking? Is it something you were born with? Keep the fabulous ideas comming!