The Penang Floral Festival draws tens of thousands of local and foreign visitors to Penang Botanic Gardens every year. This year, the festival will be held on the 30^th May to 7^th June 2015. It is a popular festival that showcases various flower species and landscaping designs. A total of 800 orchids of various species and hybrids will be on display. Among the crowd-pullers is the Paphiopedilum rothschildianum orchid, which won the Best Plant competition.

In addition, there will be workshops, various contests, exhibitions and classes on floral related topics will be held at this event along with the sales of a variety plants and gardening equipment. A few interesting activities includes Nature Guided Walk by ‘Friends of the Penang Botanic Gardens Society’, Trip to Waterfall in collaboration with Perbadanan Bekalan Air (PBA) and many more.

The festival is organized by the Federation of Malaya Orchid Society in-collaboration with the Penang Botanic Gardens and endorsed by Penang State Tourism Development Office. For more information and enquiries, please contact Penang Botanic Gardens at 04-2264401 or you may drop an email at botani@penang.gov.my for further assistance.