Canberra gears up for its annual flower festival

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Final preparations are underway at Canberra’s Commonwealth Park for Floriade. Now in its 36th year, the capital's annual flower and entertainment festival promises to be bigger, better, and brighter than ever.

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00:00 You can see why it's called Australia's biggest celebration of spring with more than a million

00:06 blooms right across Commonwealth Park ready for Floriade's opening day tomorrow.

00:12 For the Floriade horticulture team it's a project 12 months in the making and with plenty

00:16 of tulips still to emerge and warm weather forecast, visitors are sure of a floral spectacle

00:22 whenever they attend.

00:23 Our night time team will be out and about watering everything.

00:26 I think the warm conditions will favour a lot of our flowers and the tulips will just

00:31 need to keep the water up to them.

00:32 Organisers expect the sunny dry conditions forecast will also help this year's event

00:37 beat the 2019 visitor record of 507,000 people from Canberra and beyond.

00:43 And with a bigger program than ever including food, wine, market stalls, workshops, demonstrations

00:48 and live performances, Floriade Wonderland will likely generate more than $50 million

00:53 for the ACT economy.

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