The Carlton Gardens have hosted the Melbourne International Flower Show since 1996 and at a recent council meeting to decide it's future Don Burke, a local gardening, weighed in to support its current location.

It appears that for some hosting the flower show has become an onerous burden and one that has started to take its toll. Suggestions were made that the show was also causing the gardens to suffer as they were put under a great deal of stress each year.

One of the councillors was even quoted as saying,

"This isn't so much a flower and garden show any more," Cr Brindley said. "It's much bigger than that. It's tied into the broader home and garden lifestyle industry . . . We are not dealing with a dainty, tasteful reinterpretation of a garden show here, we are talking about a full-blown exercise."

While I have never been to the flower show I have been to Carlton Gardens and from my limited viewpoint it would be a shame to move it. For if they did, the most likely venue would be the showgrounds which is hardly a gardening arena.

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