The much-loved Warm Trees festival is returning to the National Arboretum Canberra from 1 July to 10 August 2025, bringing colour, creativity, and cultural celebration to the winter landscape.
This year's event highlights the vibrant colours and cultural connections with the Republic of Korea, with hundreds of hand-crafted scarves adorning trees across the Arboretum. The installation is made possible by the Friends of the National Arboretum and the dedication of volunteers who knit and crochet the colourful creations each year.
This year, Warm Trees features scarves inspired by the Korean flag's colours—red, white, blue and black—wrapped around trees in across many of the Arboretum forests.
Warm Trees 2025 is a vibrant celebration of Korean culture, with highlights including a display of Korean national symbols and native trees at The Cutting – the stone entryway leading into the Visitor's Centre, an exhibition on climate change within the Visitors Centre, and children's workshops during the school holidays featuring traditional Korean crafts.
In the Bonsai Collection, discover the featured Red Pine, a national tree of Korea, while the Discovery Garden shares stories of the Jeju women divers and the tiger and magpie fable.
Minister for Business, Arts and Creative Industries, Michael Pettersson MLA, said the event is a highlight of Canberra's winter calendar.
"Warm Trees is a wonderful celebration of creativity, nature, culture and community," Minister Pettersson said.
"It brings people together, showcasing the Arboretum's beauty in winter, and this year highlights the strong ties between Canberra and the Republic of Korea. I encourage everyone to visit and experience this unique community event."
After the event, the scarves are washed and repurposed into warm rugs, which are donated to local charities.
