Buderim Garden Festival

The annual Buderim Garden Festival will run from Friday 17 October through to Sunday 19 October. The festival will attract gardeners and interested spectators from around the state. The festival will centre in and around the Buderim War Memorial Hall (corner of Main and Church Streets, Buderim). A major feature of the festival is the competitive Spring Flower & Photographic Shows including cut flowers, floral arrangements, potted plants, foliage, hanging baskets, bonsai plants and garden photography.
Adjacent to the hall there are Quality Plant Market selling a wide variety of garden plants such as bromeliads, gerberas, orchids, staghorns & ferns, sub-tropical’s, roses, geraniums, cottage garden plants, begonias, cacti & succulents and garden novelties.

The Flower & Photographic Shows and Quality Plant Market, based at the Hall, will be open – Friday (twilight session) 3-7pm, Saturday 8am-4pm and Sunday 8am-1 pm. The Friday twilight session will include a sausage sizzle and coffee & cakes available from the adjacent craft cottage, which is also open on Saturday & Sunday. The Craft will also be open displaying a Garden Sculpture Exhibition.
There will be 6 Exclusive Open Gardens in the Buderim area which are selected to showcase the diversity in size and style of gardening in our area. Visitors will be able to see the Open Gardens by either using their own transport, or without traffic and parking problems via a free small bus service operating from the Hall on Saturday. The open gardens will be open Saturday 9am-4pm and Sunday 9am-3pm.
An inclusive weekend Festival ticket for all of the above is $20.00, or $3 each ($5 family) entry only to the Spring Flower Show in the main hall and the Garden Photography in the hall foyer. Pre-Purchased Festival tickets will be available at Manawee Nursery, the Old Buderim P.O., Buderim Newsagent or Buderim Bendigo Community Bank branch and on sale @ Hall during the Festival.