I am sorry but you are wrong.. I have just googled 'orange festival' it takes place around April 30 in Amsterdam, apparently the birthday of the queen, who is from the royal 'orange family' there is lots of info on the web.

That's true. Our queen's birthday is celebrated on the 30th of april (her real birthday is in january). But we have the same climat as in England. Are there growing oranges and palmtrees in England? We have festivities all over the country but nothing like a parade with just oranges.

I must apologise to you.. you are correct, I quoted direct from the site on the web and should have checked further, when I looked at the pictures again I realised they could not be Amsterdam, I have been there. It is the Festival Citrusov and is in the South of France, I should know not to believe all I see on the web. We can grow oranges/lemons outside in the very South of England but not commercially as far as I know, in other areas they are grown in greenhouses. we do grow palm trees outside over a lot of the South of England, we have them here in Kent. Once again I would like to apologise for believing the impossible.

These original pictures were posted around 2008 on the web, but thank you for showing them to us Butterfly wing as they are truly beautiful.

Oh thank you so much for showing this!!! Very cool!

OMG those are amazing!

Thanks for the grand tour!

Goodmorning loopywren, it is funny how two europian ladies are talking about something a lady from the USA showed.
I didn't know there are palmtrees growing in the south of England. I've seen them in Ireland though.
I have one in my garden and I have a citrus in a big pot but don't dare to let it outside in winter. There are hanging 4 big mellons on the tree. Do you know a way to keep them outside? or do I need a greenhouse? I live in Burgundy France near the Swiss border.
Have a great day, Pinot

Just beautiful.

So funny, it turned out to be French.