ZAGREB, 30 April 2022 - This year's international Floraart flower show in Zagreb will be held in the city's Bundek park on 19-22 May, and it will be attended by 180 domestic and a dozen foreign exhibitors.

The central event of the show is a competition of florists, to take place on 19 May, while students attending agricultural schools will compete in making flower arrangements on 20 May.

A special guest of the 56th Floraart is a master of traditional Korean flower arranging, Kang Yong-Soon, who will hold several workshops.

The show will also feature exhibitors selling their own products and displaying floral installations and ideas for the design of small green areas. Cacti, perennials and flowers will be sold at affordable prices.

Since 20 May is World Bee Day, the Croatian Apitherapy Society will organise lectures as part of the show on the importance of care for greenery and flowers for the survival of bees in urban areas, truths and myths about honey, and how to recognise real honey.

Lectures are also to be held on the therapeutic potential of medical hemp and natural skin care products.

Admission to the event, organised by Zrinjevac, the city-owned company that cares for and maintains the city's green areas and the City of Zagreb, is free.

May 30, 2021 - After changing its date due to the pandemic, the Floraart International Garden Show will display a vast and colorful set of flower gardens at Lake Bundek, starting this Tuesday, June 1st.

After being announced, and then canceled due to the epidemiological situation in Croatia, the 55th Floraart International Garden Exhibition was scheduled for a new date, reports Turistčke priče. The big flower show will begin on Tuesday, June 1st, and run through Sunday, June 6th. Floraart will be held on more than 300 thousand square meters of open space in Zagreb's Bundek, in compliance with all epidemiological measures.

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On the outside, plant exhibitors will be presented with a range of their own products and various floral installations and displays of conceptual solutions in the design of smaller green areas. The competitions "Croatian CUP of Florists" and "International Competition of High School Agricultural Students in Flower Arrangement" will not be held this year.

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In the western and eastern open part of Lake Bundek, a rich sale of cacti, perennials, and flowers at affordable prices will be organized. Lovers of nature and flowers, after last year's break, will finally come to their senses, beautiful flower arrangements await them all over the lake.

Floraart International Garden Show is organized by Zagreb Holding - Zrinjevac branch, and the co-organizers are the City of Zagreb and the Zagreb Tourist Board. Admission is traditionally free, and it is recommended that citizens park in the east parking lot of the Zagreb Fair.

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ZAGREB, 21 March 2021 - After not taking place last year, the biggest international flower show in this part of Europe, Floraart, is scheduled to take place at Zagreb's Bundek lake on 10-16 May, the organizer has announced.

The 55th Floraart will feature more than 200 exhibitors and the exhibition area will spread over 300,000 square meters. All coronavirus measures will have to be complied with.

"Unless the coronavirus situation deteriorates significantly, Floraart will not be that much different than in previous years," Floraart said.

The fair is organized by the Zagreb Holding utility conglomerate in cooperation with the city.

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The preparations for the 54th edition of Floraart, the largest and the oldest flower exhibition in this part of Europe, have started at the Zrinjevac plant nursery the Kajzerica neighbourhood in Zagreb. Large greenhouses are already the home to plants which will spend the next two months there. Gardeners and workers taking care of the seedlings, landscape architects and everyone else involved in the project are creating a fairy-tale experience which is bringing in an ever-increasing number of tourists and flower fans to Zagreb. In order for the floral arrangement to be ready, the team from the Zrinjevac parks and gardening municipal company is already working hard, reports Večernji List on March 14, 2019.

“The preparations for this year's Floraart began as early as September when our landscape architects designed the exhibition area. Landscape architects decide which plants they want, of which colour and how much of them. Their job is to create a form in which the plants will create the most impressive possible effect with their colours and scents, which is a kind of art,” explains Vesna Čuljat from Zrinjevac, which organises the international exhibition. “We take care to select those plants which are in full bloom in early May when the exhibition takes place. We started planting in February, and we are continuing to plant them these days as well. At Floraart, we will enjoy over 200,000 flowers.

A team of 15 gardeners plants about 12,000 seedlings each day.

This year's Floraart will be held at the Bundek lake from 13 to 19 May. It will bring together Croatian and European flower artists, and prizes will be presented in 26 categories, including those for the exhibitors of the planting material and the most beautiful home garden.

“In floristry, there are trends, just like in fashion, and we try to keep track of them. Today, ecological concerns and ecological awareness are more important than ever. We want to bring more nature into the city. There is a tendency for creating natural gardens in our environment, with different kinds of flowers which attract insects and bees that create biodiversity, which is extremely important,” explained Čuljat.

Numerous accompanying events will make this year’s exhibition special and make Zagreb one of the European centres when it comes to flower exhibitions.

Translated from Večernji List (reported by Snježana Črnjević).

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May 10, 2018 - Art Park and Floraart teamed up and filled the streets of downtown Zagreb with unique floral artwork