melbourne in spring - tulip festival in the mountains


if you happen to be in melbourne during the season of spring, you should go to the tesselaar tulip festival. the festival is from 14 sept to 11 oct this year. entry prices are usd$14.50 (for an adult) and usd$9.50 each for a group of 10 and more.

if you are driving, take the eastern freeway all the way to springvale road. turn right into springvale road at the end of the freeway. follow springvale road to cantebury road. turn left into cantebury at the traffic lights. follow cantebury road to york road. turn right into york at the roundabout. follow york road and turn right into monbulk road at the next roundabout at mt evelyn. follow monbulk road through the next set of traffic lights, all the way to the tesselar tulip festival in silvan.

there are treats from the plant stalls, gift shops and you can pick your own tulips. food and wine are available. tesselaar has two popular weekends - the food, wine and jazz weekend and the irish weekend.

ivy has been to the tulip farm the last two years. thought of visiting melbourne this september holiday but i am now having second thoughts as i will be too early for the opening of the tulip festival. two of my colleagues are going to melbourne on a study trip from 2 to 7 sept.