FFF201 - FLORIADE IN CANBERRA

Inspired by a fresh new theme every year, Canberra’s world-class spring festival, Floriade runs each year between September and October with more than one million blooms on display as a backdrop to celebrations throughout Commonwealth Park. Visitors will see the theme represented in garden beds, horticultural workshops, engaging demonstrations, children’s entertainment and the ticketed twilight event, Floriade NightFest.

In addition to the beautiful flower displays, visitors to Australia’s largest celebration of spring can pick up gardening tips from experts in the field, listen to inspiring musical performances, enjoy culinary demonstrations by world-renowned chefs and keep the kids entertained with an exciting line up of activities. Floriade presents a vibrant and varied program of events with something designed to interest and engage everyone.

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FFF201

1.	ISOPOGON	13.	Garden in Joburg	25.	Frauke { it's me! }	37.	Dawn
2.	Heidrun, Germany	14.	Jesh StG	26.	Nicole/Frau Frieda	38.	Rose Garden Malevik
3.	DUTCH IRIS	15.	Romi	27.	bij jen	39.	Aquariann
4.	FLORIADE	16.	New York Botanical Garden - ExplorationVacation	28.	WoollyMuses	40.	photographing New Zealand
5.	CAPE WEED	17.	Dekotraum - Austria	29.	Prinzessin auf der Erbse	41.	Heidrun #2
6.	JULIA | mammilade	18.	Sara Chapman, Seattle USA	30.	Mama Zen	42.	Autumnal "firework" of flowers
7.	Tom The Backroads Traveller	19.	Sara Chapman #2	31.	Amy Johnson	43.	ladyleemanila
8.	Katarina - Sweden	20.	andrea, italy	32.	veta	44.	September Garden
9.	Mascha, Germany	21.	Anne Seltmann	33.	Villroses hage	45.	Zauberpalme
10.	Ulla Laiho	22.	moni (reflexionblog)	34.	Vivishageroms fotoblogg	46.	DAHLIAS
11.	Anne-Mari	23.	Lenas Trädgårdsrum	35.	Maribels Garden
12.	Ingmarie We/Refugium	24.	Gabi *handGemacht*	36.	Megan @ The MomHood

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FFF200 - RED TULIP

The tulip is a perennial, bulbous plant with showy flowers in the genus Tulipa, of which around 75 wild species are currently accepted and which belongs to the family Liliaceae. The genus's native range extends west to the Iberian Peninsula, through North Africa to Greece, the Balkans, Turkey, throughout the Levant (Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan) and Iran, North to Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia, and east to the Northwest of China.
The tulip's centre of diversity is in the Pamir, Hindu Kush, and Tien Shan mountains. It is a typical element of steppe and winter-rain Mediterranean vegetation. A number of species and many hybrid cultivars are grown in gardens, as potted plants, or as cut flowers.

Tulips are spring-blooming perennials that grow from bulbs. Depending on the species, tulip plants can be between 10 cm and 71 cm high. The tulip's large flowers usually bloom on scapes with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk arising from amongst the leaves.Tulip stems have few leaves. Larger species tend to have multiple leaves. Plants typically have two to six leaves, some species up to 12. The tulip's leaf is strap-shaped, with a waxy coating, and the leaves are alternately arranged on the stem; these fleshy blades are often bluish green in colour.

Most tulips produce only one flower per stem, but a few species bear multiple flowers on their scapes (e.g. Tulipa turkestanica). The generally cup or star-shaped tulip flower has three petals and three sepals, which are often termed tepals because they are nearly identical. These six tepals are often marked on the interior surface near the bases with darker colourings. Tulip flowers come in a wide variety of colours, except pure blue (several tulips with "blue" in the name have a faint violet hue).

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FFF200

1.	STINKY PEAR!	14.	Tom The Backroads Traveller	27.	Pam - Sidewalk Shoes	40.	Lenas Trädgårdsrum
2.	CANDY-STRIPE PHLOX	15.	Romi	28.	Anne Seltmann	41.	Lotta
3.	WALLFLOWERS	16.	Spring in the Orchard	29.	a spirit of simplicity	42.	In The September Garden
4.	POLEMONIUM	17.	Sara Chapman, Seattle USA	30.	Ulla Laiho	43.	Megan @ The MomHood
5.	DAHLIAS	18.	Sara Chapman #2	31.	Jutta K. Deutschland	44.	Rose Garden Malevik
6.	Abrianna	19.	Sara Chapman #3	32.	bij jen	45.	Grønn fryd hos Monique
7.	Katarina - Sweden	20.	Dekotraum - Austria	33.	Bluebells	46.	Nicole/Frau Frieda
8.	Julia |mammilade|	21.	lemapi, italy	34.	Dawn	47.	Villroses hage
9.	Maribels Garden	22.	Autumnal flower arrangement	35.	Amy Johnson	48.	Ela
10.	Heidrun	23.	moni (reflexionblog)	36.	hapzydeco	49.	veta
11.	Ici et Ailleurs	24.	Anne-Mari	37.	Ingmarie We/Refugium
12.	Jesh StG	25.	naehmeise	38.	MarionK
13.	Tea-Time with Lemons	26.	Liz Needle	39.	Geheimer Garten

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FFF199 - ARCTOTIS

Arctotis is a genus of annual and perennial plants in the family Asteraceae. Arctotis is native to dry stony slopes in southern Africa. Some of the plants are alternatively placed in the genus Venidium. The common name is "African daisy", or "Gousblom" in Afrikaans.

These plants have daisy-like composite flowers which tend to close in the late afternoon or in dull weather, but numerous cultivars have been developed for garden use which stay open for longer, and are available in a wide range of colours. Tender perennials are often grown in temperate regions as half-hardy annuals. The garden hybrid A. × hybrida hort. 'Flame' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

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FFF199

1.	SPARAXIS	14.	Julia || Echinacea	27.	Tea-Time for a Lady	40.	Rose Garden Malevik
2.	APRICOT BLOSSOM	15.	Katarina - Sweden	28.	moni (reflexionblog)	41.	Liz Needle
3.	VIBURNUM	16.	Lenas Trädgårdsrum	29.	a spirit of simplicity	42.	Sara Chapman #2
4.	DAISIES	17.	Jesh StG	30.	Gayle atMuldoon	43.	Villroses hage
5.	Abrianna	18.	Romi	31.	RUDBECKIA FULGIDA	44.	hapzydeco
6.	Daffodils	19.	Poetic Shutterbug	32.	WoollyMuses	45.	Hannah
7.	NatureFootstep Photo	20.	veta	33.	bij jen	46.	Ulla Laiho
8.	Tom The Backroads Traveller	21.	Sara Chapman, Seattle USA	34.	Dawn	47.	Ela
9.	Jutta K. Deutschland	22.	United States Botanic Garden	35.	Zauberpalme	48.	naehmeise
10.	Maribels Garden	23.	Dekotraum - Austria	36.	MLou	49.	PIG FACE
11.	Heidrun	24.	Jim, Sydney, Australia	37.	Amy Johnson	50.	BLOSSOM
12.	Ici et Ailleurs	25.	lemapi, italy	38.	TECOMA	51.	ann
13.	bij jen	26.	Frauke { it's me! }	39.	Megan @ The MomHood

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FFF198 - STRIPED CAMELLIA

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. The genus was named by Linnaeus after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, though he never described a camellia.

Of economic importance in the Indian subcontinent and Asia, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage, tea. The ornamental Camellia japonica, Camellia oleifera and Camellia sasanqua and their hybrids are represented in cultivation by a large number of cultivars.

Striped camellias, or striped flowers for that matter, were once considered quite regal and a much sought after commodity. Today, they seem to be the least favourite camellia cultivar, accounting for only 7.5% of camellias encountered in Australia.

C. japonica 'Helenor' 1848, shown here, is still quite popular as a garden plant. It is a tough bush, producing mid-pink blooms that are dashed and striped with darker pink,  in a lovely formal double arrangement (which sometimes opens to rose form double).

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FFF198

1.	BLOSSOMING TREES	13.	Katarina - Sweden	25.	imagining: weekly photo linky	37.	bij jen
2.	POPPIES	14.	Lenas Trädgårdsrum	26.	ohmydearest: spring has sprung	38.	Maribels Garden
3.	JASMINE	15.	Romi	27.	Pam - Oak Leaf Hydrangea	39.	andrea, italy
4.	ORANGE ROSES	16.	Sara Chapman, Seattle USA	28.	WoollyMuses	40.	Hannah
5.	Abrianna	17.	Sara Chapman #2	29.	hapzydeco	41.	Aquariann
6.	Mascha	18.	orchid (Japan)	30.	Liz Needle	42.	Christa, USA
7.	Julia || Gladiolus, Calla, Hortensia	19.	Kebo, Italy	31.	amy Johnson	43.	Sara Chapman #3
8.	Tom The Backroads Traveller	20.	Anne Seltmann	32.	MarionK	44.	Anne-Mari
9.	BirgittaB	21.	Moni	33.	Megan @ The MomHood	45.	ann
10.	Heidrun	22.	Marleen, NL	34.	Vivishageroms fotoblogg
11.	Jesh StG	23.	Joan Frankham	35.	Rose Garden Malevik
12.	Synnöve	24.	Villroses hage	36.	Dawn

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