Tulip Time 2023 opens at Corbett Gardens in Bowral.
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00:00 I'm Nola Bailey and I'm going to have different roles.
00:08 I'll be a queue control person and information at the gate and I think helping the team whenever
00:15 they need it.
00:16 I feel it's opening up the area to people who may not come down here necessarily, but
00:22 my role I feel is to make people feel at ease, to feel comfortable, to take the odd photograph
00:28 or three and also occasionally have a chat to them, provide any assistance or whatever
00:36 questions they have to ask.
00:38 But I also feel that it's a very interesting day, or couple of days, few days, because
00:47 it brings people from all over the area, from parts of New South Wales who may never come
00:52 here and I just enjoy meeting them.
00:55 So many different and varied people from whatever background they are and if you have a chance
01:00 to talk to them it can be very interesting.
01:04 I think it's a small town atmosphere, it's different from some of the other Tullar festivals
01:08 which are much bigger.
01:09 I feel it's a far more intimate festival than the others.
01:15 It's also accessible from places like Sydney, even Canberra.
01:19 People from Canberra may be different so there's a novelty value perhaps.
01:25 I think people enjoy coming out in spring with colour and it's like a renewal.
01:30 It really is just freshening up of the year after winter.
01:33 Why are we so taken with this particular flower?
01:38 I think because it's exotic to a lot of Australians.
01:41 It's very short-lived, you don't see them for the rest of the year like a lot of other
01:47 plants.
01:48 You can have colours galore and it just looks a spectacular display when it's put on.
01:54 The entertainment is a highlight for some people.
01:58 The night time Tullar evenings, so they'll be a lot of fun.
02:03 But also just a general day out for people after such a cold long winter.
02:10 I think it's just an escapist kind of thing.
02:13 It's a beautiful place to come.
02:16 It's CWA Barrel's main fundraiser and all the money that we raise, except for some to
02:21 keep the building going, we give away to local charities.
02:24 Our main we give away to is Triple Care Farm which looks after teenagers who have been
02:30 on drugs or other substances.
02:33 They spend the first month just learning to get out of bed, wash themselves and have a
02:38 routine and then the next month they go on to learn different skills.
02:42 We donate every year to that.
02:47 We've just had our kitchen redone which cost us a lot of money so we've got to replace
02:52 some of that money to have money in store for things that might break down.
02:56 We have craft and we also have jams, all that the members have made.
03:01 We've partnered in this particular area with Barrel High School.
03:05 They make strawberry jam for us and we sell it and that goes towards our funds.
03:10 It's also coming out of winter and people are so pleased to see something lovely growing.
03:15 Viv May, the Administrator of the Winter Caribbe Shire Council.
03:29 It's a unique festival that's full of colour.
03:33 It's been going for 63 years.
03:35 People know about it and people flock in from Sydney to look at it and it helps the local
03:40 economy in a big way.
03:42 I'm told that Borealis injected $10 million into the Southern Highlands economy and I
03:48 would imagine that tulip time will be just as generous.
03:52 There's 80,000 tulips in the gardens here.
03:55 There's 90,000 across the shire.
03:57 We've tried to extend it into the villages.
03:59 At the end of the tulip time this year we'll be giving away bulbs.
04:03 I think it's on the 11th of October.
04:07 Residents can come down to Corbett Gardens and get a bag of 10 bulbs.
04:11 It's the first time we've done this for a long time.
04:13 Hopefully that will add more colour over the years to the shire.
04:17 I'd just like to pay tribute to the Council staff who work so hard to make this all happen.
04:22 From the outdoor staff who spend 10 days just in this garden, a team of people planting
04:28 80,000 bulbs.
04:29 They deserve a huge amount of credit.
04:32 And to the staff, internal staff from the visitor centre who organise, you know, thousands
04:37 of people who come to tulip time from other areas and we do our best to make sure there's
04:43 as little inconvenience as possible to residents in their day to day life wandering around
04:47 the shire too.
04:48 I think there's eight in the garden team.
04:50 And they planted this entire...
04:52 They planted the whole lot in 10 days and you just don't push the bulbs in.
04:57 It's quite complex and I think it's an absolute credit to them.
05:00 They do it year in, year out but they're just so proud of the product.
05:04 I was speaking to the head gardener this morning who said he's had a few sleepless nights worrying
05:09 about how hot it's been.
05:11 Early bloom but he said he's also... there's late bloomers who will come as well.
05:15 So everybody will be happy whether you come today or you come on the long weekend.
05:19 Wonderful.
05:20 Thank you.
05:20 Thank you.
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