Summer is here and it’s blooming beautiful

Summer has arrived in Sydney with our living colour displays now in bloom.

Enjoy more than 30,000 plants and flowers in vibrant festive colours. Of course there’s the fabulous flowering pyramid at St Mary’s Cathedral Square, but there are plenty of flowers along the way. This year’s plants focus on edible and pharmaceutical varieties in line with the 2024 theme ‘Plants as a Resource’. Drawing on the knowledge and practices of Indigenous cultures.

You can spot them across the city centre and in Green Square, Erskineville and Glebe until early March.

The plants are grown in local Sydney nurseries before being installed in flower pots and displayed in intricate designs across the city.

Plant species at each location:

Alfred Street
angelonia blue
begonia rose
calibrachoa double orange
canna green orange, bronze peach
coleus orange leaf
curry plant
dahlia bronze pink, bronze yellow
echeveria blue
ficus ruby
gailiardia yellow
gazania orange stripe
geranium purple
heuchera orangeberry
pelargonium pink blotch
persian shield
ptilotus joey
salvia purple, black

Customs House
calibrachoa mixed colour
canna green orange
crepe myrtle
coleus orange leaf
dichondra silver
tagetes yellow
salvia black

AMP building
begonia rose
canna green orange
coleus orange leaf
dahlia bronze yellow
ipomea blackie
salvia purple

Martin Place
begonia white
begonia rose
calibrachoa good night kiss
canna bronze scarlet
coleus orange leaf
cosmos white
dalina pink
dianthus pink white, purple
fishbone fern
gaura white, pink
pelargonium dark red
petunia purple white
persian shield
plectranthus variegatum
ptilotus joey
dahlia bronze yellow

Queens Square & Hyde Park Barracks
crepe myrtle
dalina pink
dahlia bronze pink, bronze yellow
petunia pink yellow
ptilotus joey
pelargonium pink blotch
tagetes yellow

Union Square
begonia rose
calibrachoa good night kiss
coleus orange leaf
petunia purple white

QVB & Town Hall
begonia rose
canna bronze scarlet, bronze peach, green orange
dalina pink
gaura pink
gazania orange stripe
heuchera forever purple
ptilotus joey
salvia purple
scaevola blue

St Marys Cathedral Square
The large flower pyramid will be located here
angelonia blue
coleus orange leaf
dahlia bronze pink, bronze yellow
dalina pink
pelargonium pink blotch
petunia dark red, purple white
ptilotus joey
salvia purple, black

Springfield Plaza
dianthus dash crimson
petunia pink yellow
salvia purple

Ian Thorpe Aquatic Centre
canna bronze scarlet
dianthus purple
petunia purple
salvia purple

Green Square Library
canna bronze scarlet
cosmos white
curry plant
dahlia bronze yellow
gazania white stripe
gaura white
ipomea light green
tagetes yellow

Hyde Park South
begonia rose
canna green orange
coleus orange leaf
ficus ruby, burgundy
fishbone fern
plectranthus varigeatum

Jack Floyd Reserve
canna bronze scarlet
fishbone fern
persian shield
plectranthus varigeatum
scaevola blue

Kings Cross
begonia rose
calibrachoa mixed colour
canna bronze peach
coleus orange leaf
gazania orange stripe
salvia purple, black

Erskineville Town Hall
calibrachoa mixed colour
dahlia bronze pink, bronze yellow
ptilotus joey

Pirrama Park gaura pink geranium purple, white pelargonium pink blotch ptilotus joey

Sydney Square
calibrachoa mixed colour
coleus orange leaf
dahlia bronze
gazania orange stripe
salvia purple
tagetes yellow

We use recycled water from Green Square to water the displays and all plants are cared for without pesticides.

When it's time for the temporary displays to be packed away, plants will be offered as a donation to community gardens, early childhood centres and schools.

See the flower beds being installed in Martin Place.

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