More than 180 Egyptian exhibitors display plants at Cairo's Spring Flowers Fair. All photos: Mahmoud Nasr / The National
The 89th Spring Flowers Fair will run until March 31.
One of Egypt’s most visited annual events, the exhibition brings together the country’s most prolific horticulturalists.
The show has made Giza’s historic Orman Botanical Garden its home since it was first launched officially as an annual event in 1934.
The show attracts a wide range of visitors, including families and young people, and exhibitors hope to convert those visits into sales.
The vibrancy of the stalls and the tranquillity of the 28-acre Orman Botanical Garden is in stark contrast to the busy, polluted streets of Cairo just outside the garden’s gates.
Many of the fair’s exhibitors grow exotic plants that they bring to impress buyers at the exhibition.
The Orman garden, which predates the show by over 50 years, was built by Egypt’s former ruler Khedive Ismail in 1875.
