Toowoomba's gardens a real blooming joy to judge

IT’S the most nerve-racking week of the year for gardeners - judging has started in The Chronicle Garden Competition.

City section judge Lawrie Smith. Picture: Bev Lacey

IT'S the most nerve-racking week of the year for gardeners.

Judging has started in The Chronicle Garden Competition, in which home gardeners, schools, businesses and organisations compete across 44 categories to truly make Toowoomba the Garden City.

While warm weather during winter had some entrants worried that flowers would bloom ahead of the start of the Carnival of Flowers on Friday, September 20, judges have found the 2013 entrants to be a blooming success so far.

To see the best of the competition blooms, pick up the Competition Souvenir Guide and map in The Chronicle on September 20.

The work of the city's best green thumbs in five exhibition gardens can be viewed during the carnival, open from 9am to 5pm each day.

Originally published as Toowoomba's gardens a real blooming joy to judge