Miniature Magic Gardens & More at Bloom! York - Part 3

Carr Junior School

The recent Bloom! festival in York, from the 5-8 July 2018, celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Ancient Society of York Florists - who have held an annual horticultural show since 1768. As part of the festival, local primary schools exhibited miniature magic gardens that they had created in wheelbarrows.  Thirty schools entered.  The miniature gardens were very colourful and great fun.  Here are a some of the entrants...

Elvington Primary School

Carr Infant School

Yearsley Grove Primary School

Our Lady, Queen of Martyrs RC Primary School

Bootham Junior School

Clifton Green Primary School

St Aelred's RC Primary School

Fishergate Fairy Fun - Forest School

The Ancient Society of York Florists held their summer show in Parliament Street. 

Prizewining arrangements

There were some fabulous floral arrangements and vegetables too (sorry, no veg pics).

Vase Arrangements

The Society commissioned Emily Sutton to design a commemorative mug to mark their 250th anniversary.  What could be better than Yorkshire tea in such a fab mug!

Yorkshire Tea in an Ancient Society of York Florists Mug

Bloom! has been a great festival - a big thank you to all the organisers and all the contributors!


 

More about Bloom! York 2018 - Part 2

Sitting in the flower seat outside Bill's in York

Bloom! from 5-8 July 2018 was a great success.  To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Ancient Society of York Florists there was  a floral explosion in the city with flowers and gardens appearing everywhere.  Here are some pics to give you a flavour...

Grand Hotel display

Detail from Grand Hotel display

Exhibition Square

Elizabethan Garden at the Rose Theatre

Betty's window

Detail from Betty's window

Davygate

One of Crabtree & Evelyn's windows

Coppergate

Pop-up tipi bar SÓL ÁST in Dean's Park

Fancy Dance Studio window

Browns window

Dean Court Hotel window boxes

The Ivy

Lotte Inch's window

St Helen's Square

St Martin Le Grand

Theatre Royal

Treasurer's House

Upside Down Design

The Yorkshire Soap Co.

The Mansion House

Pyramid Gallery

Flowers in the Minster

St Helens Church Flowers

And of course it wasn't just going on in the city centre.  Take a look at Bishopthorpe Road...

Bloomin' Lovely Bishy Road

  
You have till Monday 16 July at midday to vote for your favourite in the Bloom! Window Dressing Competition!  Click here to vote. 

Thanks to everyone involved with Bloom! - it's been bloomin' marvellous!  And the final installment of my Bloom! blogs is coming soon - Miniature Magic Gardens & More.

York's Bloomin' Marvellous Flowerwall in Bloom! - Part 1

Part of the Flowerwall at York Explore Library

The Bloom! festival in York over the last few days has made the city look even better than usual.  From the 5-8 July 2018,  the festival celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Ancient Society of York Florists - who have held an annual horticultural show since 1768.  This blogpost is dedicated to the York Learning community art flowerwall at York Explore which was magnficent.

Flower arch at Bloom!

You may remember that I went along to take part in one of the many York Learning flowerwall workshops given by Deborah New - read more here.  Then I told the Fairfax Court Yarnstormers all about it and they decided to get involved - read about that here.  Fiona Dixon & her group Sew Chatty also contributed fab flowers to the project...

Sew Chatty Flowers courtesy of Fiona Dixon

See if you can spot them in the flower wall...

Green flowers

York Learning put on lots of flower making workshops for people to go to. Workshops weren't only held at the library.  Claire Douglas (project leader) & Kerry Roberts took workshops into New Earswick, Skelton and St Barnabas primary schools and Karen at Lakeside primary ran after school workshops for parents & children.

Some people made them at home or in their craft groups.  Sue Clayton worked with older learners & Kat Wood, created lovely flowers from plastic bags with crafty folk at Chapelfields Community   Association & Foxwood Community Centre.  Other groups (including Haxby Methodist Church Hall, Clifton Library & Blossom Women's Group) and individuals (especially Cheryl Pickard & Hannah Savage) also made lots of bloomin' flowers...

Green Flowers

There was such a great variety of flowers - fabric, paper, plastic, willow, stitched, knitted, crocheted and they were all displayed in groups of the same colour...

Blue Flowers

Blue Flowers

Purple Flowers

Red & Orange Flowers

Fabulous Flowers

Yellow flowers

White flowers

White flowers

It wasn't just the outside of the library that was blooming...

The Stairwell is Blooming

Inside the Library

It all looked fantastic.  And Claire Douglas, Deborah New, Donna Taylor & Karen Winship did an amazing job putting it all together.  Thanks to York Learning and everyone who took part for creating such an amazing display!

York Learning Flowerwall

More about the Bloom! festival in another post!