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Kōrero: Otago places

Blossom festival, Alexandra

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Blossom festival, Alexandra
Alexandra has held a blossom festival since 1957. This gloriously pink float attracted many admiring glances in the 2004 festival parade. The town also hosts a cultural festival known as the thyme festival each November, when the district’s wild thyme is in flower.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 27 September 2004, p. 12

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago places – Manuherikia, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22805/blossom-festival-alexandra (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Malcolm McKinnon, i tāngia i te 19 August 2009, updated 1 July 2015.