Pictures from the Floriade garden fair/world expo in Venlo, 14th May 2012

Floriade is a big garden fair/exhibition (more like a world expo with a gardening theme) held in the Netherlands only once in 10 years, this time in Venlo, near the German border.

Plants on sale sorted by color
Cable cars
More cable cars and an eco exhibit
Fancy bird feeders
Lodging for birds
Several country pavilions visible, most prominently South Korea
The Spain pavilion
More country pavilions, Peru and Sri Lanka(?)
The Tunisian pavilion
Flower beds outside the Indonesian pavilion
The Indonesian pavilion looking very lush
The Floriade stage
The massive entrance gate
Baby Eurasian coots
A view through a cable car window
Very colorful tulips )
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Tribal art from the Indonesian pavilion
Terracotta figures
One of the restaurants was very blue
Color explosion
People entering the cable car
A geometric view from above
A tulip closeup
A multimedia show indoors
Wind and solar energy
A futuristic view into one of the restaurants
A clever wall garden