Flower Show, Carlton Gardens, Melbourne, bromeliad, fuchsia, oncidium
Carlton Gardens March 26, 2015 Today we had set aside for a visit to the International Flower Show held at Carlton Gardens in Melbourne. Its a hundred km or so but a pretty easy run through Geelong and up the M1 to the big-smoke (pretty easy for me, Judy was driving) and follow the GPS into the parking area under Etihad Stadium. Great plan; for $18 you get to park all day and a nice man drives you up to the show in a big orange bus, and brings you back again. Hard to beat. Anyhow, the flower show was as good as the last time we were here a few years ago, at least Judy was feeling a whole lot better than then. What can one say about flowers? There are heaps of them to see, all the favourites: fuchsia, bromeliad, oncidium and the like. They even had tulips and stuff a la Floriade style. Its just as well we are heading to WA, where they have this disposition at the border regarding fruit, vegetables, flowers, food etc and delight in taking it all of you, or else we'd be overload...