Each spring for 70 years, the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, has delighted visitors from all over the globe with its glorious gardens and stunning floral displays, planted by the Toowoomba Regional Council.   This year’s carnival began on the 20th of September and will finish on the 27th September, running as a seven day event this year.

The first days of Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers are coming to a close and the internet is filling up with photos from the magnificent floral event. So we’ve taken the time to put together a highlights reel of some of the most beautiful pictures on Instagram for you to enjoy.

The Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers is Australia’s pre-eminent floral event, with displays that are properly designed and incorporate more than 150,000 bulbs, seeds and seedlings each year.  The streets, parks and roundabouts of Toowoomba are like nowhere else.  And major displays are set up in areas including Botanic Gardens, Queens Park (cnr Lindsay and Campbell Streets, Toowoomba) and Laurel Bank Park (50 Hill Street, Toowoomba). Additional plantings occur around the CBD (Ruthven and Margaret Streets), Picnic Point lookout and Spring Bluff Station.

It’s a long and well-loved tradition that celebrates the start of Spring.  On October 28, 1950 the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers commenced with a street procession that stretched three miles in length. Led by a bullock team and watched by a crowd estimated to be 50,000 strong, it was a resounding success.  In 2018 more than 255,000 people are said to have attended in the ten day festival.

We’ve gone and found a good selection of the pictures floating around Instagram so you can live vicariously today.  Were you there?  Send us your pics.