Southern Highlands’ Tulip Time
Having recently returned from a riverboat cruise through Holland at Tulip Time, those not wishing to travel so far can venture closer to home to Tulip Time Festival in the Southern Highlands of NSW.
My friend David Ellis has alerted me to this event, that has become one of the biggest celebrations of the tulip in Australia, and a far cry from when the first bulbs were planted all those years ago in the town of Bowral for its new-fangled Festival of Flowers.
Visitors are expected to flock into the Southern Highlands to see those 65,000 tulips (one visitor for each tulip)… together with 25,000 other flowering annuals and 40,000 more tulips in Winifred Street Park just up the road in Mittagong, and just down the road at Moss Vale’s Leighton Gardens.
The 14-day Festival that this year will run from September 18 to October 1 will also include a colourful Street Parade through Bowral at 3pm on Saturday September 22 with classic cars and historic and modern-day fire engines, marching bands, dancers and other performers – and the Sydney Cycling Club whose members will punch the pedals for over a hundred k’s to join-in.
For Tulip Time information, garden entry prices, and assistance to book accommodation, call 1300 657 559 or visit www.tuliptime.net.au. (FOOTNOTE : Corbett Gardens’ 65,000 bulbs will be dug up and sold on Saturday November 10; dig your own 50 for $15 or buy 50 pre-bagged for $20.)
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John Pond, J.P.
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About John Pond, J.P.
Pioneer in television as producer of thousands of hours of TV shows on Australian and American television including Graham Kennedy, Tommy Leonetti, People in Conflict, Hollywood Bowl, Major Specials and Dr John's Casebook TV Shows. TV manager J. Walter Thompson & McCannErickson Advertising and head of production for Columbia Pictures TV.
John changed careers to the hospitality industry working for Sydney's top 5 star hotel as director of sales and marketing and GM. Then with Harrah's/Caesar's World, the world's largest hotel and casino group in Nevada. Playboy Magazine in Chicago, head of worldwide PR/Marketing, for their Resorts, Clubs, Hotels & Casinos. Producer at Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Co-creator of hit US network TV show Joker, Joker, Joker, first TV show to give away a million dollars.
Writer travel articles for magazines and newspapers including Washington Post, New York Times, American Playboy as well as local Australian papers and magazines. In the USA represented many personalities including Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Bob Hope, Mel Torme, and many other major names.
John is Editor at Sea of Australia's leading cruise magazine, Travel & Cruise writer for The Retiree Magazine, Destinations Magazine and Spectator Group of Newspapers. John reviews cruise ships, Destinations and Hotels, and is ably assisted by his Associate Editor and partner, Sandra Tiltman.
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