Tulip Time Bowral is one of Australia’s oldest and best loved floral festivals

Tulip Time Bowral is one of Australia’s oldest and best loved floral festivals

Tulip Time, now in its 59th continuous year, is one of Australia’s oldest and best loved floral festivals, attracting tens of thousands of visitors. Corbett Gardens, the centrepiece of the Festival is mass-planted with over 75,000 tulip bulbs and 15,000 annuals, in a spectacular Springtime display. Additionally there are another 40,000 tulips planted across the Shire, to create a picturesque vista.

Overall a celebration of stunning tulip displays, entertainment, special events and premier private gardens, so essentially there’s something on offer for both young and the young at heart!

Winner of the 2015 World Tulip Award.

Tulips are the stars of spring.

Experience a kaleidoscope of tulips carpeting public gardens and premier private gardens during Tulip Time in the Southern Highlands.

The 90,000 mass-planted tulips nestled among blossoming mature trees in Corbett Gardens are the centrepiece of the Tulip Time Festival where there is daily live musical entertainment,an array of market stalls and lots of photo opportunities.

“Bowral is where the idea for the Mary Poppins character originated when the author,P L Travers lived there during her teens.”

Celebrating 85 years since the first book was written, the magic of Mary Poppins will transform Corbett Gardens into a wonderland of colour, music and fun in 2019.
Join us for a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious adventure.

WINNER of the 2015 World Tulip Award.

This year in lieu of the Tulip Time Parade, to mark the arrival of Spring and Tulip Time, a Tulip Time Twilight Procession will be held on Tuesday 24 September. 

(For more information see listing under events).