This year’s Toowoomba Camellia Show and Garden Expo, on Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 July, promises to be bigger and better than ever.
This follows the decision to move the show from Toowoomba TAFE’s Horticultural Centre to the campus quadrangle, which will allow more room for camellia displays, the food court, entertainment and other features. The 2018 renewal of the Camellia Show was officially launched by Toowoomba Regional Council Deputy Mayor Carol Taylor on Friday 15 June at The Windmills in the Cobb and Co/TAFE precinct.
By cutting a spectacular camellia garland Cr. Taylor triggered a series of events, which will include the naming of this year’s Toowoomba Winter Garden and the official Queensland re-launch of a heritage camellia. Show president Kevin Cotterell told the gather that he is “over the moon with the way in which the event has grown in reputation across the nation. Toowoomba is internationally renowned as The Garden City and that is why there are more and more visitors to the city,” Mr Cotterell said. “There is nothing more fulfilling than taking in our abundant gardens and attractions and enjoying the goodwill of our community.”
As well as a brilliant display of camellias the show will boast an expansive Garden Expo with 40 exhibitors showing a range of plants and products. There will also be non-stop entertainment, combined with displays of vintage cars and motor bikes, art, craft and local produce. There will also be a series of high profile speakers on camellias, gardening and horticulture. The list of speakers over the two days includes award-winning Dr. Stephen Utick, Gardening for the Good Life’s Clare Bickle and the Garden Guru Phil Dudman, from ABC Gardening Australia.
All proceeds from the event, which is Queensland’s biggest camellia show, will go to the Toowoomba Hospice.
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