00:02Visitors turned up in spades with shovels, lining up for hours to be first through the
00:08gates.
00:08Driven from Orient to come and get as many bulbs as possible.
00:12There's movement.
00:13We've got 26 bags to dig for and it is, you can see, it's bedlam, everyone is free for
00:18all.
00:19It's the only chance visitors get during the month-long festival to get off the beaten
00:23path and jump into the beds.
00:25You got it?
00:26Oh yeah.
00:26Do you want one?
00:27It's less tiptoeing through the tulips, more pouncing on the pansies.
00:31I've got spots all picked out throughout the whole park.
00:34And these aren't self-raising flowers.
00:36It's hard work digging for the buried treasure.
00:39But with about a million blooms, no one misses out.
00:42I love the joy of when you find a bowl.
00:44But it does feel wrong just trampling all over these flowers.
00:48For organisers, it's a bittersweet end to the floral festival and all part of the bloom and
00:54bust cycle.
00:54Mixed emotions, you know, seeing all these garden beds being torn up.
00:58But knowing that it's for a fantastic cause.
01:01The YWCA hopes to raise $100,000 from the sale of the bags.
01:06That money will go towards housing for vulnerable women and families.
01:10Last year we were able to purchase, with combined fundraising, a two bedroom brand new home that
01:17we feel by Christmas.
01:18An annual ritual helping families put down roots.
01:21For more than 3 people in the region, this is not the best of the crop.
01:21But for once, if you're not blinds, this is a small bundle.
01:22And if you are looking for it, that's eight months.
01:23You
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