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12 February 2025

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers smashes 2023 attendance figures, with four blooming beautiful weekends, bursting with local pride.

The numbers are in and once again, the flowers have the power! Australia’s most beautiful event, Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, has released.. →

22 January 2025

Hold onto your gardening hats, flower enthusiasts! The petal phenomenon that is Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers is back for its 76th spectacular year, and we’re hunting for business partners who are ready to grow something extraordinary with us.

Why are we buzzing.. →

September 2024

Mark diaries everywhere because on Friday evening October 4 in Queens Park something very special will take place – the full Queensland Symphony Orchestra will perform Symphony Under the Stars, under the baton of Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici as part of the 75th anniversary.. →

August 2024

It’s Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers time and there’s oodles of fun to be had, petals!

The famous Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers features over 80 amazing events from 13 September to 7 October, with the theme, It’s A Party…. because ….. this is the 75th anniversary.. →

August 2024

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers’ Festival of Food and Wine runs September 13 to 15 as the perfect starter for the most beautiful event in the country!

PLUS – Pastries, posies and a pink mohawk – celebrity chef and dessert powerhouse Anna Polyviou brings sweet.. →

22 August 2024

65 #trEATs to eat at this year’s Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers

#trEATS just keeps getting bigger and tastier! For the 75th Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers this year there’s a record 65 floral-inspired #trEATS to savour, including six regional venues taking part!

#trEATS.. →

August 2024

Dog-friendly itineraries and 190,000 blooms at the country’s most beautiful event next month

As if celebrating 75 years of petal power was not enough! This year the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) features Petals and Pups – an official dog-friendly program,.. →

5 July 2024

Attention all flavour makers from Toowoomba and across the greater region, there is just one week left to register for this year’s #trEATS program as part of Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers!

#trEATS (Toowoomba Region EATS) is a food trail that covers the region as part of.. →

14 June 2024

Celebrity chef and dessert powerhouse Anna Polyviou brings rockstar status to 75th Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers

The 75th Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers will come alive for four blooming weeks, from September 13-October 7, opening with three days of Festival of Food and Wine,.. →

28 March 2024

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers unveils 75th anniversary program and the inaugural Carnival Queen shares her memories

Seventy five years ago a bullock team led a street procession that stretched three miles in length through Toowoomba. This was the first Toowoomba Carnival.. →

16 March 2024

There’s no slowing the power of the petal, just weeks after releasing record breaking figures for 2023, the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers has taken GOLD at the 2023 Qantas Australian Tourism Awards for Major Festival or Event!

The awards celebrating the best of the best.. →

8 March 2024

Prepare yourselves Petals, this year’s Grand Central Floral Parade at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers will be a party for the ages on Saturday 21 September from 10am!

Entries are NOW OPEN for the 75th Grand Central Parade, the event that stops the Garden City, with the.. →

20 December 2023

Acclaimed nationally and with a mantlepiece full of awards, the famous Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers celebrates 75 petal-filled years in 2024 and is now calling for businesses interested in partnering across this milestone year (yes, even for hay fever relievers!)

Toowoomba.. →

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers’ second Teddy Bears’ Picnic

The Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers may be famed as Australia’s most beautiful event, but there’s a special gathering that happens during this celebration that’s just unbearably cute – it’s the Teddy Bears’ Picnic at Picnic.. →

52 #trEATs to eat at this year’s Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers

Better dig out your stretchy pants because there’s a record 52 floral-inspired #trEATS to savour at this year’s Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, including six regional venues taking part, and the good news is you have all September.. →

You won’t believe the floral facts and figures of this year’s Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, Australia’s most beautiful event, which runs all September as the perfect Spring celebration.

Let’s start with petals, petals! This year organisers have calculated there will be 37.2 million.. →

With Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers’ Festival of Food & Wine just six weeks away, here’s a deep dive on the knockout line-up of Australian music headed to Queens Park from September 8 to 10 for the celebration!

TOP TIP – book your tickets AND somewhere to stay NOW because tickets are.. →

15 March 2023

Calling all Busy Bees – it’s time to extend those wings because the theme for this year’s Grand Central Floral Parade at the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers has just been announced – it’s CREATE A BUZZ!

Given it’s the parade that stops the city, creating a buzz.. →

17 January 2023
Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers smashes 2022 attendance figures, looks to 75th anniversary in 2024
The numbers are in and once again, the flowers have the power! Australia’s most beautiful event, Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, has released results for 2022, and records.. →

5 May 2022
Prepare the petals – Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers has unveiled a month-long celebration for September 2022, set to bring a multi-million dollar boon to the region
 The wait is over petals! The 2022 program for Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) has been unveiled and.. →

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers unveils month long celebration for 2021
 COVID-19 format remains a blueprint for Australia’s leading event

There’s power in petals! The multi-award-winning Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) has unveiled a joy-filled month-long program of celebrations.. →

11 December 2020

COVID-19 format blueprint for change for Australia’s leading event

Proof that there’s a silver lining to everything, the multi-award-winning Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) received recommendation from Toowoomba Regional Council’s Environment and Community.. →

COVID-19 format blueprint for change for Australia’s leading event
11 December 2020

Proof that there’s a silver lining to everything, the multi-award-winning Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers (TCOF) received recommendation from Toowoomba Regional Council’s Environment and Community.. →

20 August 2020

Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers announces chalk art program for Queens Park Botanic Gardens

The 170,000 blooms across parks and public spaces this September aren’t the only stars of this year’s iconic Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers. Introducing the Artists-in-Residence.. →