Hong Kong Flower Show 2024: A Fragrant Journey Through Floral Beauty at Victoria Park!

Flower Show to adorn Victoria Park with theme flower stock from March 20

The Hong Kong Flower Show (HKFS) is the city's annual spectacular for flower enthusiasts, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. This year's HKFS will be held at Victoria Park for 10 days from March 20 to 29, running from 9am to 9pm daily, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". With delicate fragrance and rich hues, the blooming flowers of stock blend into the garden landscapes that capture Hong Kong's unique character, enabling visitors to savour the city's charming beauty amid floral scents while adding splendid colours to Victoria Park.

Native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, stock is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Matthiola in the Brassicaceae family. It blooms from early spring to early summer. The stock is readily identifiable by its characteristic four-petalled cross-shaped flowers. The inflorescence is a raceme, with clusters of around 10 small flowers in terminal and on stalks. The sun-loving flowers open in bursts from the bottom upwards.

The stock comes in an array of colours, ranging from vibrant classic ones like purple, pink, white and yellow, to fresher and softer hues of newer cultivars, such as pale lilac, creamy yellow and pastel pink. Extensive cultivation and improvements have produced a host of single-petalled and double-petalled cultivars, which vary in height and size, each with its own attractiveness.

With its dazzling colour, heady scent, abundant supply and relatively long blooming period, the stock is deeply adored by gardening enthusiasts. Whether grown in parterres, pots or used as cut flowers, it brings fragrance and beauty. Essential oils of stock have long been used in perfumes and aromatherapy.

In addition to this year's theme flower and other flowering plants, the gardens along the central axis are specially infused with strong Hong Kong characteristics, bringing visitors the city's unique cultural diversity and urban charm amid floral fragrances in the air. The event will showcase a large collection of exquisite potted plants, beautiful floral arrangements and well-crafted landscape displays by local, Mainland and overseas organisations. There will also be commercial stalls selling flowers and horticultural products. A wide variety of educational and recreational fringe activities will also be held for visitors of all ages to enjoy.

For more details about the HKFS and its admission fee arrangements, please visit the webpage at www.hkflowershow.hk/en/hkfs/2026/index.html or call 2601 8260 for enquiries.

The HKFS is organised by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is supporting the flower show for the 14th consecutive year and has been its major sponsor since 2014.

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". Native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the stock blooms from early spring to early summer. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". Native to Southern Europe and the Mediterranean, the stock blooms from early spring to early summer. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". With its dazzling colour, heady scent, abundant supply and relatively long blooming period, the stock is deeply adored by gardening enthusiasts. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". With its dazzling colour, heady scent, abundant supply and relatively long blooming period, the stock is deeply adored by gardening enthusiasts. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". The stock comes in an array of colours, ranging from vibrant classic ones like purple, pink, white and yellow, to fresher and softer hues of newer cultivars, such as pale lilac, creamy yellow and pastel pink. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". The stock comes in an array of colours, ranging from vibrant classic ones like purple, pink, white and yellow, to fresher and softer hues of newer cultivars, such as pale lilac, creamy yellow and pastel pink. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

This year's Hong Kong Flower Show will be held at Victoria Park from March 20 to 29, featuring the elegant stock as its theme flower under the theme "A Fragrant Journey through Hong Kong". The stock comes in an array of colours, ranging from vibrant classic ones like purple, pink, white and yellow, to fresher and softer hues of newer cultivars, such as pale lilac, creamy yellow and pastel pink. Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Hong Kong Customs detects two dangerous drug cases at airport

Hong Kong Customs on May 7 and yesterday (May 10) detected two dangerous drug cases and seized a total of about 3.7 kilograms of suspected ketamine and about 9kg of suspected cannabis buds with a total estimated market value of about $3.1 million at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).

In the first case, Customs on May 7 inspected an air parcel, declared as carrying daily necessities and arriving from Italy to Hong Kong, at HKIA. Upon inspection, Customs officers found about 3.7kg of suspected ketamine, with an estimated market of about $1.4 million, in six coffee bean packages in the parcel. After follow-up investigations, Customs officers conducted a controlled delivery operation today (May 11), and arrested two men in Cheung Sha Wan, aged 21 and 26, suspected to be connected with the case.

In the second case, a 37-year-old male passenger, arrived in Hong Kong from Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. During customs clearance, Customs officers found about 9kg of suspected cannabis buds, with an estimated market of about $1.7 million, in his check-in suitcase. He was subsequently arrested.

Investigations of both cases are ongoing.

Customs will continue to step up enforcement against drug trafficking activities through intelligence analysis. The department also reminds members of the public to stay alert and not to participate in drug trafficking activities for monetary return. They must not accept hiring or delegation from another party to carry controlled items into and out of Hong Kong. They are also reminded not to carry unknown items for other people, nor to release their personal data or home address to others for receiving parcels or goods.

Customs will continue to apply a risk assessment approach and focus on selecting passengers from high-risk regions for clearance to combat transnational drug trafficking activities.

Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and life imprisonment.

Members of the public may report any suspected drug trafficking activities to Customs' 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002).

Hong Kong Customs detects two dangerous drug cases at airport Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Hong Kong Customs detects two dangerous drug cases at airport Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases