The finishing touches are being put on Australia's favourite festival of flowers for its opening this weekend. An unseasonably warm end to winter had prompted fears some Floriade might have bloomed too soon, but organisers have assured visitors there'll be plenty to enjoy.
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00:00It's the annual cue to emerge from winter hibernation.
00:06I'm so excited.
00:07I've never seen this park more colourful for opening day of Floriade.
00:11More than a million flowers will bloom over the next month for the 37th year of Canberra's
00:17Anchor Tourism event, running with the theme Art in Bloom.
00:21Music, film, literature, paint, all the different medias.
00:27After 18 months of planning, horticulturalists have been working overtime to protect the
00:31flowers from last month's unseasonably warm weather, but the winter heat planted a seed
00:37among organisers who'll assess whether Floriade should start slightly earlier next year.
00:43We'll take some advice from the horticulturalists on that, but I think there is increasing evidence
00:48that we will need to just make some small adjustments.
00:52Today might be a fairly chilly spring day, but from Saturday, organisers are hoping that
00:58the weather will turn it on and bring more than 450,000 people through the gates over
01:04the next four weeks.
01:06We see a younger crowd coming and enjoying Commonwealth Park in terms of the local aspect,
01:15but our tourism is generally an older group of people.
01:21Adding $50 million to the Canberra economy.