Major Attractions

The Hong Kong Flower Show this year features “Bliss in Bloom” as its theme and the gorgeous Hydrangeas as its theme flower.  Long a darling of flower lovers, hydrangea is renowned for its glamorous large flowers and splendid colours in full bloom, definitely creating a captivating sense of bliss and romance in every corner of the Show.

This flower plot is dotted with a riotous collection of tulips. Appreciating tulips in a close distance is definitely a hugely pleasant experience, bringing visitors immense joy and happiness. The places around are without exception perfect spots for photo-taking.

Measuring 20 metres x 30 metres, a sea of foxgloves will be set up at the central lawn. With its distinctive arrangement of elongated bell-shaped cluster, the foxglove flower sea will be another popular attraction of the flower show with no doubt.

The floral garden at the central lawn is another photo taking spots.  The backyard garden full of Hydrangea can attack people to take photos.  People can go through the tunnel climbing with rose and orchid, taking photos at the vertical green with Hydrangea at the end.

Spring is in the air, and the bustling city is ever more vibrant with activity. Multi-coloured Hydrangeas are dressed in spring attire for the city amid nature teeming with dancing butterflies and buzzing bees. Families, couples and friends come out in droves to spread the joy to all corners of the city. They have bike excursions to the countryside, bringing happiness across the city. The world is in an infectious mood of sheer joy, with scarecrows extolling the beauty of fields in excitement and ducks cavorting by the side of ponds in delight. Such a wonderful moment is captured with paintbrushes.

This year’s parterre depicts a beach party scene against a backdrop of a blue sky, green ocean and tranquil beach in summer.  The parterre looks like a paradise, where groups of animals are living leisurely lives and enjoying the grace of Mother Nature.

Amid scorching summer heat, birds are freely flying through the air with the sun high in the sky, aspiring to bring hope across all corners of the globe. Two dolphins are happily playing in waves, sometimes even jumping out of water and dancing in pair.  There are also a host of sea creatures including seahorses, whales and octopuses swimming and splashing about together with little whales and baby octopuses in the middle of the sea.  The wonderful combination of wind and wave sounds is just like playing a symphony of summer in creation of a fantastic atmosphere. Under intense sunlight, one can see many animals including sea turtles, hermit crabs, coral clams and common kingfishers basking on the beach, a scene of bliss. The parterre is a mosaic of thousands of flowers and plants.  Visitors may enjoy the cute animal sculptures and the colourful rainbow up close, and pose on them for a good photo.  At night, the special effects of illumination and music push the atmosphere to its peak.

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has been supporting the Flower Show since 2013.  It became a major sponsor in 2014 and has since been financing the mosaiculture projects by students in a bid to bring the Flower Show to every sector of the community.

The autumn sun is calm and cosy, and a golden hue radiates from the fields.   The garden is full of ripe fruits and vibrantly coloured pumpkins surrounded by multi-coloured flowers and balls of Hydrangea florets.  The myriad colours are interwoven into the picturesque beauty of fairy tales, so that visitors may appreciate the joy of a lavish harvest in the autumn season.  From a distance, the corrugated terraces resemble strips of golden ribbons laid in the fields. The red maple on both sides of the terraces stand testimony to the changing season.  In this scenery of bountiful harvest, farmers are busy tending to wheat fields, sweet cantaloupes and matured corn.  Amid the faint aroma of grain products, visitors are immersed in an autumn fairy tale.

Reachable from the entrance on Sugar Street, this parterre features winter beauty as its theme.  Upon walking through a tunnel of the gorgeous and brightly coloured Hydrangeas, one will be greeted by a winter town decked with Christmas festive decorations, immersing oneself in the joyful and blissful mood amid this floral festivity.

Hydrangeas denote “friendship” and “reunion” in floral meanings.  The design theme of this plot is about Enggie Pup and Artti Kitty taking a little wooden train to travel around, mesmerized by distinctively impressive Hydrangeas of varying species.  The plot is lushly planted with the riotously coloured Hydrangeas, which produce a breathtakingly beautiful waterfall of fragrant flowers.  As the train runs through a tunnel of thousands of Moth Orchids, one will easily forget the hassles of our world amid a strong floral scent.  Meanwhile, various edible plants are planted in the plot, making us recollect the ancient elegant practice of eating and drinking outdoor on mats under the moon.

Greeting spring with a warm embrace! The flower wall featuring carnation, chrysanthemum and kalanchoe in their best colours signals the comeback of renewed energy after a three-year pandemic induced hiatus. Starting fresh and staying vibrant, the flying dragon - the city's brand - moves forward in high spirit against a jubilant backdrop of bright future.

Simple but conscious design of the garden, “Pavilion of Blessing and Love”, is presented by the Architectural Services Department this year. With the theme of delicate and unique Hydrangea flowers, visitor will be embraced with affection and love of being through the seamless integration of architectural space and landscape arrangement. The dynamic curved feature walls of the pavilion are constructed by “bamboo” which is a local, traditional and renewable construction material, manifesting Architecture Services Department’s vision of creating a sustainably built environment for Hong Kong. The form of theme flower “Hydrangea” symbolizes friendship and unity, and its broad spectrum of colors also represents different positive meanings in Floriography. For example, blue represents romance and happiness, purple represents warmth and reunion, white represents hope and purity, pink represents hope and love, and red represents festive reunion. Landscape and architectural features are integrated to manifest happiness and an embracing experience. Visitors can enjoy the dynamic arrangement of flora, lightings and sculpture during their stroll in the Display. Similar to our life journey, the Pavilion has bliss and love in bloom which requires our admiration and enjoyment.

Under the concept of "Rivers in the City", the Drainage Services Department (DSD) revitalizes old concrete nullahs that only focused on flood prevention into urban ecological green waterways with multiple functions. With greening in architecture and sustainable design, "Rivers in the City" will improve the quality of the living environment of the community, promote biodiversity, and connect river with people and drive the water friendly culture.

Innocence lets happiness bloom in one's heart. This year, the Highways Department brings you a mini theme park. Let those commonly seen but forgettable roadside elements become the main characters of this Highways Department Wonderland. Traffic cones, tires and the figures from road signs are here for party. Let's be part of it, breathe in fragrance as fuel, and see the smiling faces as road signs that lead us to happiness.

“The Lush Scenery" which features “Hills” and “Paths" sets out the ambience of our design. Hills are one of our precious natural assets in Hong Kong. They form unique landscapes and at their crests offer people to admire the breathtaking sceneries. With creating a safe, green and sustainable environment as Our mission. Civil Engineering and Development Department (CEDD) commits to providing land and infrastructure as well as greening and environmental restoration to develop a green and sustainable future for Hong Kong. The two hill-shaped pavilions are set in lush surrounds, demonstrating the determination and persistence of CEDD in promoting greening and sustainable development. Visitors will enjoy an immersive experience when strolling along the “Corridor of Happiness" and the “Flower Tunnel" decorated with lush flowering shrubs and trees. The display also doubles as an outdoor classroom showcasing CEDD's projects and the use of recycled yard waste materials generated from these projects.

Forests blending in with our Home. People feel satisfied and happy every minute of the day when they live together in a pleasant and beautiful urban green environment in all seasons. To let the public appreciate the blissful ambience of our urban forest, the Greening, Landscape and Tree Management Section of the Development Bureau has designed its exhibition booth with an abstract representation of clusters of hydrangea, the theme flower, in multiple round shapes that symbolise happiness and reunion. The exhibition booth, with lights around its perimeter creating an urban silhouette, is encircled by a variety of plants in different colour groups to give the impression of a city in a forest of changing seasons. Furthermore, interactive games and interesting exhibits are provided at the booth to help the public understand the latest developments in urban forestry and enhance their awareness of tree management

Featuring “Sheer Bliss in Building an Inclusive Community” as its theme which echoes the theme of the Hong Kong Flower Show 2023 “Bliss in Bloom”, the landscape displays of the Correctional Services Department (CSD) is designed to promote among the public the messages of its community education. At the centre is a heart-shaped floral arrangement including a perfect mix of flowers in vibrant colours. Together with sparkling butterflies flying among the blossoms and a brightly-coloured rainbow, the landscape delivers a sense of harmony and inclusiveness.

The parterre is decorated with a number of windmills symbolising social stability and happiness. Decorations with departmental elements in the landscape design are emblematic of CSD’s proactive efforts in promoting community education to disseminate to the public the messages of “safeguarding our country and home, leading a law-abiding and drug-free life as well as supporting offender rehabilitation”.

“Delightful Green Homes with an Abundance of Blessings” is the theme of the Housing Department’s landscape garden. Upon passing through the “Heart-to-Heart” archway, visitors may take a leisurely stroll around the garden to enjoy an exquisite 3D heartshaped blooming parterre. The design together with the joyful ambience suggests the Housing Authority’s (HA) attentiveness to the public through building sweet homes with them over the past five decades. The “Hearts Bursting with Joy” sculpture next to the garden entrance symbolises loads of bliss and hope, inspiring us to build ideal homes together with persistence. The spherical sculpture nearby is connected to a garden wall featuring film strips to showcase the HA’s determination and relentless efforts in providing quality homes for the people of Hong Kong over the years. The colourful farmland and the sunflower trail adjacent to the Green Cottage add idyllic vibes to the garden. A stroll around will clear your mind and brighten up your day. On the left front side of the garden stands the HA’s 3D logo, which is surrounded by flowers blooming in a blaze of colours and arranged in a radial pattern. This signifies that the HA upholds the “people-oriented” principle and endeavours to provide the public with the shelter of homes, so that they can live and work in contentment.

With a long history of cultural exchanges between the East and the West, Macao is endowed with a distinctive cultural identity. The design concept of the exhibition area is inspired by the European cloister arcades and the Portuguesestyle streets, as a reflection of the unique architectural features of Macao against its historical and cultural background. In the centre of the exhibition area is a golden lotus-shaped installation, signifying Macao’s prosperity under the support of the motherland. Small junks return with a fishing harvest to the harbour with Hydrangeas in full bloom, a testimony to Macao people’s bliss since the reunification with the motherland.

The theme of the mosaiculture display is about the legend of a chromatic phoenix. Stepping on a stone, a phoenix with Ganoderma held in mouth stares back at the beautiful views of blooming flowers and auspicious clouds amid a colourful haze. Such a design features the beauty of fortune animals in Chinese myths, while expressing the concept of “low-carbon nature and ecological sustainability”. Adorned by means of floral insertion and pasting, the installation in the shape of a phoenix ingeniously blends gardening elements with floral arrangement techniques, where various distinctive species of Begonia are adopted together with such plant materials as cut flowers, immortal flowers and branches, making it look like a real life phoenix. With “blooming” as the design theme for the ground vegetation, the exhibit is created into a patterned mosaiculture display with natural floral features, with a view to implementing our garden landscaping idea. The tail feathers of the phoenix displays the pattern of ripples, embodying the indispensable role of water, the source of life, to nourish everything in the world. The regular pattern at the head of the phoenix gradually emerges as natural floral landscaping in expression of lucidly charming beauty, encapsulating the cultural meaning of “moving hearts and minds in unison by harmonising with the nature”. On the whole, the creation of the mosaiculture display aims to praise the elegance and solemn charm of the art of Chinese gardening, while promoting our traditional culture to sustain its vibrancy. Inspired by these clusters of gorgeously colourful flowers, we will move forward and embrace the bright future ahead in unison.

The design of the garden plot runs along the theme of this year’s Flower Show “Bliss in Bloom”. It is always a blissful moment for stargazers to look up the magnificent Milky Way, marvelling at the wonder of the galaxy in tranquillity.

Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece “The Starry Night”, we use lots of lines and contrastive colours in a blending of reality and imagination when presenting this plot in an effort to create a blissful ambience amid a starry night.

The materials adopted for the garden plot are mainly sod grass rolls. Drawings of stars are made in luminous paint by coloured patterning, with starshaped installations characterised by green elements of embroidered grasses.

Inspired by the Shenzhen Municipality’s unique organic urban layout of integrating “mountains, seas, city and parks”, the design of the garden adopts the presentation techniques of traditional paper-cutting, with an aim to, by extensive folding and cutting of spaces, extend the entire site from a two-dimensional surface to a three-dimensional artwork of paper-cutting rich in spatial artistic features. The garden’s major structure, Pavilion of Paper-cutting, carries the meaning of mountains, while both the wave shaped planting boxes and arch symbolise oceans. With a profusion of flowers and shrub planting across the garden, all such features epitomise the Shenzhen Municipal’s proactive initiative to implement its beautiful blueprint of “integrating the city with mountains and seas, and building a green and livable Shenzhen”.