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Flowers in season in Australian Capital Territory now

Canberra's cold winters make for a sharp, bright spring. Floriade fills Commonwealth Park with more than a million bulbs and annuals each September and October, cherry and crabapple blossom lines the suburbs, and the Australian National Botanic Gardens hold the country's best living collection of native plants. Being confirmed

At market in ACT in September

All of September
Close-up of a soft pink boronia flower with golden stamens
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Boronia

Boronia megastigma and Boronia heterophylla

Pink Mangle's sunray everlasting daisies with yellow centres growing wild in Western Australia
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Everlasting daisy

Rhodanthe chlorocephala subsp. rosea and related paper daisies

Crimson waratah flower head with its ring of red bracts, growing in bushland near Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains
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Waratah

Telopea speciosissima and hybrids

Branch of golden wattle smothered in fluffy yellow ball flowers
Native

Wattle

Acacia spp. (golden wattle, Acacia pycnantha)

King protea in bloom with a silvery pink dome and pointed rose pink bracts
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Protea

Protea spp. (including Protea cynaroides)

Single violet blue Anemone coronaria with a dark navy centre, growing from feathery leaves
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Anemone

Anemone coronaria

Branches of double pink ornamental cherry blossom against a deep blue sky
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Cherry blossom

Prunus serrulata and other ornamental Prunus

Golden yellow freesia flowers on a curved stem against a dark background
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Freesia

Freesia hybrids

Stargazer Oriental lily fully open, deep pink petals edged in white and freckled with crimson spots
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Lilies

Lilium hybrids

Pale pink saucer magnolia flowers opening on bare branches in spring
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Magnolia

Magnolia × soulangeana and other species

Velvety red hybrid tea rose, Kardinal, in full bloom on the bush
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Roses

Rosa hybrids

Bunch of red and yellow flamed tulips opening in a vase against a pale wall
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Tulips

Tulipa gesneriana

Events in Australian Capital Territory

On nowACT

Floriade 2026

12 September to 11 October 2026

Commonwealth Park, Canberra

Tulips

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