Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show
The Hong Kong Flower Show 2026, currently running at Victoria Park, is displaying the winning entries of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD)’s Oriental andWesternStyle Garden Plot Competitions, in addition to meticulously designed landscape displays and beautiful floral arrangements.The winning entries of the competitions are:
Oriental Style Garden Plot Competition
First Prize: Central and Western District’s “Pottinger Street (Stone Slab Street)”
Environmental Award: Yau Tsim Mong District’s “Spring in a Huizhou Garden”
Most Creative Award: Southern District’s “Moonlit Indian Garden”
Western Style Garden Plot Competition
First Prize and Most Creative Award: Tuen Mun District’s “Beehive Garden”
Environmental Award: Kwun Tong District’s “The Reborn Garden: Where Industry Meets Eden”
Winning entries of Oriental Style Garden Plot Competition
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Central and Western District’s “Pottinger Street (Stone Slab Street)” garden evokes fond collective memories. A path paved with uneven flagstones, together with a nostalgic tramcar alongside it, recreates the street’s distinctive scene and brings back a sense of bygone days. Native trees are planted around the garden, complemented by blooming stock flowers that add colour to the display.
Yau Tsim Mong District’s garden, with the theme of “Spring in a Huizhou Garden”, uses Hui-style architecture as its framework. The plot recreates classic elements of ancient Huizhou, such as white walls and black tiles, staggered horse-head walls, and distinctive stone, brick, and wood carvings. Featuring a vase-shaped gate, a pavilion overlooking a brook, and artfully floral arrangements of stocks, traditional Chinese flowers and aromatic plants, the compact setting captures the essence of an elegant private Huizhou garden.
Southern District’s “Moonlit Indian Garden” draws inspiration from the grandeur of classical Indian gardens, interwoven with Persian landscaping traditions. Its symmetrical layout, centred on a tranquil fountain and lotus pond, sees geometric forms harmonise with natural growth, establishing a profound sense of order and elegance.
Winning entries of Western Style Garden Plot Competition
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Tuen Mun District’s “Beehive Garden” presents stacks of small hexagonal compartments forming a cozy beehive-like home. Each module has its own feature including a reading corner, a quiet resting space, or an elevated rooftop micro-garden blooming with colour offers a distinct experience. The garden is decorated with lush greenery and flowering shrubs, in addition to a winding stone path flanked by vegetation of varying heights, creating a picturesque scene where architecture blends seamlessly with the landscape, celebrating the harmonious beauty of nature.
Kwun Tong District’s garden, “The Reborn Garden: Where Industry Meets Eden”, takes upcycling as its design theme and transforms a repurposed shipping container into a café hut. Reclaimed railway sleepers are used to form a pathway, while roses and ivy are trained along steel frames. In addition, an aquaponics system is turned into a hydroponic planter that grows fresh herbs and vegetables, bringing new life to otherwise discarded materials.
All entries in the Garden Plot Competitions were artfully designed by staff of the District Leisure Services Offices of the LCSD. Members of the public are welcome to visit the flower show to enjoy the above winning entries and other garden plot designs. Meanwhile, the flower show is hosting the “My Most Favourite Garden Plot” online voting campaign (www.hkflowershow.hk/en/hkfs/2026/voting.html), encouraging voters to choose their favourites from the garden plots of the 18 districts at the show, with a chance of winning free supermarket cash coupons.
The flower show, with some 400 000 flowering plants on display, is running until this Sunday (March 29) from 9am to 9pm daily. A rich diversity of educational and recreational fringe activities are also being held for the enjoyment of visitors of all ages.
The flower show is organised by the LCSD. The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust has supported the flower show since 2013 and has been its major sponsor since 2014. For more details of the event and its admission fee arrangements, please visit the event webpage www.hkflowershow.hk/en/hkfs/2026/index.html or call the enquiry hotline at 2601 8260.
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Winning garden plots on display at Hong Kong Flower Show Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases
Hospital Authority statement on internship arrangements for healthcare professionals in Hong Kong
The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:
The spokesperson for the Hospital Authority (HA) issued the following statement today (March 26) to address public misconceptions regarding internship arrangements for healthcare professionals in Hong Kong:
Over the coming years, a number of HA hospitals will be completing redevelopment projects and commencing operations. While Kai Tak Hospital will open with 2 400 beds, Prince of Wales Hospital Phase 2 redevelopment will be completed with approximately 2 300 beds in place and North District Hospital redevelopment will have its hospital beds increase from 700 to approximately 2 200. As these hospitals come into service successively and service demand continues to grow, the HA will continue to recruit additional healthcare staff.
As the backbone of the public healthcare system, the HA promotes, facilitates, and participates in the training of healthcare talent which is one of its key missions. The HA has always regarded the training of professional healthcare personnel as a priority, and has been actively collaborating with local universities and post-secondary institutions to provide teaching opportunities and student internship placements in healthcare-related disciplines in accordance with Hong Kong’s manpower needs. This ensures that Hong Kong has sufficient professional healthcare talent to serve patients and safeguard public health.
As the sole provider of internship and training posts, the HA provides sufficient places each year for all local medical graduates to complete their internships. Last year, all local medical graduates undertook their internships at various public hospitals. Under the relevant legislation governing medical registration, local medical graduates must complete their internship at accredited hospitals before they can obtain full registration to practise in Hong Kong.
Regarding nursing staff, the HA’s nursing schools train 300 registered nurse students and 100 enrolled nurse students annually. In the year of 2025/26, the HA provided over 10 000 internship placements for nursing students from local universities and post-secondary institutions, helping them accumulate the required clinical experience before graduation. Furthermore, as of December 31, 2025, the HA had recruited a total of 2 788 nurses in the 2025/26 year to meet service demands and ensure sufficient staffing for patient care.
Regarding allied health manpower, the HA has consistently provided clinical internship opportunities for allied health students from various universities and post-secondary institutions. In 2025, approximately 2 000 allied health students from various institutions undertook clinical internships at public hospitals.
The HA has always placed great importance on nurturing a professional, stable, and sustainably developed healthcare team. The HA will continue to strengthen its professional healthcare workforce to meet future growth in service demand. As various new hospital and redevelopment projects are expected to open successively from this year onwards over the coming years, the HA will ensure sufficient staffing to support the additional beds and services, and to meet future healthcare needs.
In recent years, in addition to actively recruiting healthcare staff through various channels, the HA has also worked to retain existing staff and attract more healthcare professionals by creating additional senior positions – such as Consultant, Associate Consultant, Nurse Consultant, and Associate Nurse Consultant roles – thereby strengthening the overall capacity of its healthcare team.
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