Anketell St 
This floral display is located on Tuggeranong's busy shopping street.
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Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia, and some conflicts involving personnel from the Australian colonies prior to Federation.
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Black Mountain This is famous because of the old Telecom Tower, then renamed Telstra Tower that forms a symbolic landmark of Canberra.
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Blundells Cottage Blundells Cottage is a heritage-listed six-roomed stone cottage located on the northern shore of Lake Burley Griffin.
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Calthorpes House This is a historic house built in 1927 by Harry Calthorpe in a Spanish Mission style and remains relatively unchanged.
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Canberra We explored the Canberra city centre on our last day visiting Floriade.
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City Hill and London Circuit City Hill is a park located in Canberra, Australia on one of the points of the Parliamentary Triangle, a feature of Walter Burley Griffin's plan for the city. It is surrounded by London Circuit, which is a hexagonal road that encircles the hill.
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Commonwealth Park The traditional home of Floriade hasn't completely missed out. There is a glorious flower bed on the back of Stage 88 along with a gnome and a Floriade mural.
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Glebe Park Glebe Park is a remnant of a hundred acres (40 hectares) of land allocated to the Anglican Church in the early 1840s for use as a glebe, an area of land whose revenues contribute towards parish expenses.
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Good Shepherd Community Church The garden bed at Good Shepherd Community Church is a circular bed divided into eight wedges – four wedges of bulbs and four wedges of annuals.
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Holy Family Church The garden is planted under a magnificent old Gum Tree in a raised garden bed with 2500 mixed tulip bulbs spaced throughout the garden.
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Kambah Community Garden The Kambah Community Garden is located near the Kambah District Park which also has remnants of the old Kambah homestead.
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Kambah Village Sheep The Floriade display at the entrance sign to the shopping centre features a gnome amongst sheep grazing on 196 square metres of Floriade bulbs and annuals.
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Kings Park Kings Park also lies on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin adjacent to Commonwealth Park and is normally considered to be the area east of Anzac Parade.
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Kingston Foreshore This area contains lots of luxury apartments, a marina and a retail precinct.
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Lake Burley Griffin We explored the Lake Burley Griffin foreshore near Yarralumla Bay.
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Lake Tuggeranong Lake Tuggeranong, an artificial lake sourced by the confluence of Tuggeranong Creek and stormwater discharge from urban and rural areas.
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Lanyon Marketplace Lanyon Marketplace was opened in November 1997.
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Mt Ainslie The Mount Ainslie tourist outlook, one of Canberra's most popular, provides excellent views of central Canberra and Red Hill to the south and Black Mountain to the west especially towards sunset.
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Museum of Australian Democracy The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House is a living museum of social and political history, located in a nationally listed heritage building in Parkes, Canberra.
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National Capital Exhibition The National Capital Exhibition tells the Story of Canberra as the capital city of Australia.
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National Carillon The National Carillon is a gift from the British Government to the people of Australia to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the national capital, Canberra.
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National Museum of Australia The Floriade boxes are contains bulbs and annuals blooming under the museum’s signature entry sculpture, and complements the Garden of Australian Dreams.
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Parkes Way From the National Carillon, we skirted our way back to Commonwealth Park via Kings Park through a set of paths parallel to Parkes Way.
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Parliament House Gardens The gardens are certainly a well kept secret, as there are no signs pointing the way, but they are worth it for the fantastic parterre and cherry blossoms.
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Parliament House The new Parliament House was constructed beginning from 1981 with an original budget of A$220 million and was supposed to be opened on Australia Day 1988.
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Parliamentary Zone We parked near the National Library, and explored the Peace Park, Water's Edge, the National Rose Garden, the old Parliament House and the Treasury building.
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Red Hill This is one of the three lookout points for Canberra (the other two being Black Mountain and Ainslie Hill), and the one closest to Parliament House.
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Regatta Point The RG Menzies walk swings from underneath the Commonwealth Avenue bridge past Regatta Point, Commonwealth Park and into Kings Park.
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Royal Australian Mint Not many flowers here, except in some tulips in a garden bed next to the entrance ramp, and a bed of mostly yellow/green flowers near the entrance ramp.
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St Mary in the Valley This special shaped garden bed represents the Celtic Cross that sits high on the spire of the St Mary in the Valley Church.
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St Thomas the Apostle This is a rather imposing Catholic church with an attached primary school.
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Street Art We found a fascinating lane called Tocumwal Lane in Canberra that leads into a square that is full of street art.
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Tuggeranong Uniting Church Tuggeranong Uniting Church Erindale has four garden beds at the upper end of Comrie Street associated with the Erindale Neighbourhood Centre and the Erindale Neighbourhood Garden.
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Mayfield Garden Mayfield was established in 1984 by the Hawkins family, initially as a sheep farm.
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Series: Floriade 2020 In 2020, Floriade has been reimagined (due to COVID-19) with the celebration moving from its traditional home in Commonwealth Park to bloom across Canberra.
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Series: Vivid 2022 Vivid Sydney is an annual festival that celebrated its 12th year in 2022, Vivid Sydney fuses art, innovation and technology and features a set of light installations scattered around the city.
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Vivid 2022: A Mirrored City A Mirrored City is created by WITCH+GHOST from Australia and feature a set of illuminated sculptures depicting various aspects of Sydney.
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Vivid 2022 at Circular Quay 2022 will see both sides of Sydney Harbour Bridge emblazoned with hundreds of colour changing lights. In a ribbon of light, colours pulse from the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge across its world-famous span, through The Rocks, around Circular Quay and onto the Sydney Opera House forecourt.
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Vivid 2022: Bump in the Night Bump in the Night is created by James Dive from Australia and feature a peaceful campsite, or is it?
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Vivid 2022: Celestial Celestial is created by Studio John Fish from Australia. It resembles a planet with rings around it.
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Vivid 2022: Chronoharp Chronoharp is created by Amigo & Amigo in collaboration with Otis Studios from Australia.
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Vivid 2022: contact Internationally celebrated light artist Sam Whiteside will take over the entrance of Carriageworks with his immersive lighting installation titled 'contact'.
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Vivid 2022: Ephemeral Oceanic Ephemeral Oceanic is created by Atelier Sisu from Australia and feature a set of illuminated spheres floating on Walsh Bay between Piers 1 and 2/3.
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Vivid 2022: Resonance Resonance is created by Studio John Fish from Australia and feature an array of convex mirrors.
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Vivid 2022: Wild Lights Wild Lights features a set of light installations and projection at Taronga Zoo.
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