Flower Festival
The week-long activities began with a procession to the local recreation ground and finished with a flower festival in one of the local churches. Various schools, clubs, societies and organisations found innovative ways of interpreting the theme. We went on Monday afternoon, expecting it to be quiet, but it was surprisingly busy.
I have posted a selection of arrangements. The first one shows a surfboard amid rolling ‘waves’ of flowers, as we are encouraged to see.
The notes for the displays were informative and in some cases imperative in understanding the interpretation.
Explorers were featured.
There were twenty-six displays in all, and all the pillars and pew ends had been decorated, too. Such a lot of hard work goes into these arrangements. I hope the RNLI received lots of donations.
It looks like a lovely event.
ReplyDeleteThat would have been fun to participate in! Love the green pipe cleaner dude. I could do that!
ReplyDeleteI might even manage that, too.
DeleteLovely displays!
ReplyDeleteIt's the small details I like - the surfer, the koala bear, the polar bears and so on.
DeleteThe displays are so artistic! I see a miniature koala in the James Cook one :)
ReplyDeleteWell spotted! Did you spot the polar bears in the Arctic Ocean?
DeleteVery clever arrangements and so different. They deserve to have a lot of money donated, definitely. xx
ReplyDeleteThe large collection jar seemed to have quite a lot of paper donations in it.
DeleteEach flower set has a story
ReplyDeleteA lot of thought went into them.
DeleteSuch gorgeous flowers. Nothing like that in my garden.
ReplyDeleteNor mine.
DeleteI like that the arrangements have a theme but did the carnival have a Ferris wheel, dodgem cars, fairy floss and food vans? Seriously, it is great that these local village festivals still continue.
ReplyDeleteThe fete committee will already be planning the next one in two years' time.
DeleteI also love our local Gala, it's held in Portchester castle grounds and always has loads of village vibes.
ReplyDeleteThat setting sounds so attractive.
DeleteBeautiful and very well done with all the explanations ! Today I have to complain about the heat ! Since two days we have up to 30° ! I prefer that, although a little less would be easier, also for the personal the poor once have to wear a mask !!
ReplyDelete30 degrees is becoming too much! It's cooler here today, thank goodness.
DeleteBeautiful arrangements. I thought I'd seen them somewhere before, it turns out that you must live close to Crimson Kettle, another blogger I follow.
ReplyDeleteI have just visited Crimsopn Kettle's blog. What a coincidence and we both went on the same day.
DeleteWhat a beautiful Festival. To see all these Flowers by people who really know how to do floral arrangements. Which I simply never have been able to do.
ReplyDeleteFlower-arranging passed me by, too, though my mother was very talented.
DeleteHi Janice - it looks to be a very clever and cleverly formed festival - I love the explanation guides ... and as you say that bottle message - I'm glad they had sufficient sense in the deep ocean waters to remember the apostrophe! Cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many times a 'message in a bottle' reached anyone?
DeleteMy aunt and uncle met as a result of a message in a bottle! He wrote his name and address on a piece of paper, put it inside a bottle and threw the bottle into the sea off Zealand (Holland) where he lived. My aunt in England found it on a beach on the south coast on a day trip with friends, contacted him and they eventually met up and married. This was in the 1960s.
DeleteSo romantic!
That's such a wonderful, romantic story. How lovely and what a great conversation contribution.
DeleteA lovely festival. I do enjoy events like that! I was never a flower arranger but I appreciate lovely arrangements like these. And I love old fashioned carnivals … and village fetes!
ReplyDeleteThey bring the wider community together.
DeleteOh I like the Neptune one!
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful, isn't it? Such an imaginative approach.
DeleteHow wonderful, thank you for taking all these lovely photos and sharing. Wonderful bits of history too.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Denise. They were lovely to see and so much work had gone into them. Janice
DeleteWell done to all who did the flowers, they look brilliant and such wonderful ideas.
ReplyDeleteI do hope the RNLI received lots of donations.
All the best Jan
They were beautiful and so skillfully executed.
DeleteHow amazing & beautiful it all is Janice - so much thought & detail gone into those arrangements. I think I might've spent ages just looking at it all & taking it all in. xx
ReplyDeleteI never feel I spend enough time just taking it all in. I did notice one or two people just sitting and meditating.
DeleteGorgeous and innovative displays. I would have loved to have been there (despite my flower arrangements being flowers dropped in a vase).
ReplyDeleteI am in awe of such talented arrangers. I have no skill whatsoever.
DeleteLindas flores. Te mando un beso.
ReplyDeleteThey were lovely.
DeleteWhat splendid and clever arrangements!
ReplyDeleteIndeed, they were.
DeleteThank you for sharing those wonderful displays, Janice! The little surfer and the message in a bottle made me smile too! xxx
ReplyDeleteIt's little touches like that that make the arrangements more 'human' somehow.
DeleteThank you for sharing all these wonderful flower displays and the descriptions that inspired them. A lot of work must have gone in to each one.
ReplyDeleteThey were works of art.
DeleteBeautiful arrangements & wonderful explanations. Works of art indeed, as you said above.
ReplyDeleteI can't arrange flowers for toffee, so am always impressed.
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