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Tulip Summit Brings Pansies Together

If you're a fan of pretty flowers you must get ready for Floriade in Canberra, Australia. The 2006 version runs 16 September to 15 October--that's the middle of spring Down Under, remember--and last year they managed to get almost 1.5 million flowers and bulbs blooming at the same time. This year the theme is Carnivale: The World on Show and floral exhibitors from 16 countries will rubbing their green thumbs together to impress festival-goers.

But the bit that really impresses us is that in conjunction with this year's Floriade, the World Tulip Summit will be held in the southern hemisphere for the first time. We know that there are experts for everything, and why not be a tulip expert: You probably get to spend a fair bit of time in the Netherlands (and there's other good stuff there), and the rest of the year you can hop around the world on jaunts to various tulip summits. What's more, you're constantly surrounded by pretty things. Some days we really think we've missed our calling.

[Image via faerietail/Flickr]

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