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Every edition of the Singapore Garden Festival draws professional florists from across the globe to compete in one of the most demanding formats in floral design: the Dream Portal task. Each competitor is given the same starting point, an arched window frame and has to fill it with an installation that stands entirely on its own as a piece of art.
What separates the field isn't the flowers themselves so much as what each florist does with the frame: how they handle scale, structure, and negative space, and how far they push technique before the arrangement stops looking floral and starts looking sculptural. For anyone who follows high-level floral design, this is the round worth watching closely.
We sent our reporter Austin Flowers into the middle of it. He caught the competition floor mid-chaos florists elbow-deep in half-finished installations, stems scattered everywhere and talked his way into conversations most visitors never get. By the time the doors opened, he'd already seen it all.
Our full video report from the show floor is live now. Grab a cup of tea and go wander the floor with Austin Flowers.
