Toowoomba’s Carnival of Flowers is back with more than just botanicals

The same can be said across the city at Laurel Bank Park.

Most plants are ready to welcome visitors for the carnival’s opening weekend but a few show-stoppers, like the wisteria which transforms a tunnel archway, will hold fire for at least another week.

“The wisteria loses all its leaves then it starts to bud up,” Kate Scott, the co-ordinator of Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers, explained.

“And then it bursts out into a complete and utter display of purple…