00:01All around Canberra, signs spring is just around the corner have started to appear.
00:08Colourful flowers starting to fill gardens and brightening up roadsides.
00:13At Commonwealth Park...
00:14So this is early stages of floriade after the plant out.
00:18Australia's biggest celebration of spring is starting to take shape.
00:22Garden beds of more than a million blooms exactly where they should be,
00:26six weeks out from floriade kicking off.
00:29We do have a couple of early bloomers, only one or two here and there,
00:34but nothing to be of a worry as of yet.
00:37While some flowers have made an appearance a little earlier this year,
00:41it seems the milder winter weather is also encouraging more green thumbs.
00:45More people buying trolly loads, gardens full of plants and not being shy whatsoever
00:50and wanting to work in their yard while they're there I guess.
00:53Winter in Canberra is always chilly but this year it hasn't been as cold as usual.
00:59Both day and night time temperatures were above average in June and that has continued in July.
01:05While there has been quite a few sub-zero nights recently,
01:09Mount Janini in the Brindabella range recorded its hottest July day on record.
01:13The next few months look as if they're likely to be drier but beyond that hard to say.
01:19Higher than average temperatures are very likely to persist.
01:22A forecast budding with surprises.
01:26COONSE
01:27USO
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