Over 50 Trowbridge businesses, organisations and charities are taking part in the Trowbridge Flower Festival and displaying flowers and plants in their windows from 8th June to coincide with national Great Big Green Week (8th – 16th June).  The event will continue over the summer months and will  bring colour, nature and increased footfall to Wiltshire’s county town.

There are flower-themed window painting, floral window displays, colourful hanging baskets and planters, flower-related events and activities, and even circus, lion, vehicle and tea party-themed floral displays!

MAPS – Flower Festival trail maps are available to download below.  We hope you enjoy a fun floral safari around Trowbridge town centre!  A limited number of printed maps are available from The Toy Shop, Pet Planet, Trowbridge Council Information Centre, Trowbridge Museum, Still Sisters and Trowbridge Library.

COMPETITION –  Each of the locations on the map is displaying a number in their window or alongside the floral display.  The challenge is to add them all up and email the total to info@trowbridgechamber.com.  All correct entries will go into a draw to win prizes, including Screening Room cinema tickets, a £20 Boswells cafe voucher and a children’s gardening set & flower pot full of sweets from Asda.  ADDITIONAL TRAIL INFO BELOW.

SPONSORS – Many thanks to Stone Developments for kindly sponsoring the trail maps, Parade House for hosting the event launch and HPH and Castle Place shopping centre for sponsoring colourful town planters.

DOWNLOAD & PRINT YOUR TRAIL MAP HERE

ADDITIONAL TRAIL DETAILS:

• 40- Trowbridge Eco Garden – is at the Police Station / Polebarn Road end of the Park
• 46 – Union St Almshouses – hanging baskets now up yet, but the number 1 should feature in a window.
• 8 – County Hall – number displayed in the garden seating area in front of the Library entrance
• Please let us know if you can’t find any numbers and we’ll check they are still in place or replace them if not.

DISPLAY PRIZES – Silver cups and a £100 Trowbridge Garden Centre voucher were presented to the best business window displays.  Winners were SILT, SASS Circus and Serenity Beauty in St George’s Works and Absolutely Fabulous Flowers in Church Walk.  Highly commended were Parade House,  Peppers Hair & Beauty, Elevate Hub& Connect Solutions, The Kings Arms, Still Sisters, the former BHF building in Fore Street, The Wild Garden in Trowbridge Town Park and Wiltshire Council for their new floral garden seating area.

EVENTS – The main Flower Festival will run from 8th – 16th June and will continue throughout the summer.  Events include:

8th June

• Launch of Trowbridge Flower Festival trail – maps available to download from this page
• Trowbridge Weavers Market – Trowbridge Eco stand + seed bombs, dress heads, horticultural trail activities & grow your own pumpkins.   Flower Festival stand with trail maps and a hedgehog-friendly garden fencing display
• Textile Garden open day (Union Street) and a mini-trail quiz around town centre gardens (mini-trail maps available at the Textile Garden & the Flower Festival stall at the Weavers Market)
• Pimms & cream tea in the Parade House English garden in Fore Street (1100-1700) with floral installations and live music (wear floral clothes!)
• Open studio day at SILT in St George’s Works Mews from 12pm – 5pm. See floral related work and ecological image-making research facilities for ink making, eco-photography & textiles
• Trowbridge Library – flower and garden-themed story time and craft sessions at 11am. Create paper flowers to take home and make a flower to add to the library vase to create a community bouquet.

8th – 16th June

• A week-long trail around the Trowbridge Garden Centre with a ‘gardening with wildlife in mind’ theme.
• Trowbridge Library – pop in and create a paper flower to add to the community flower bouquet display

10th June

• Trowbridge Garden Centre – children’s flower activity (4pm-5.30pm)
• Trowbridge Garden Centre–  talk and demonstration on gardening with wildlife in mind – 6.30pm – 7.30pm plus late night shopping until 8pm and evening meals in the café

15th June

• Funky Flowers children’s paper flower-making workshop at Trowbridge Museum (Suitable for ages 5+) 1100-1500. Free

16th June

• SILT open day (as above) with floral teas

13th July

• Weavers Market – leaf and flower art

10th August

• Weavers Market – flower pressing

14th September

• Weavers market – making bug houses

5th October

• Apple Festival, apple pie competition, best pumpkin competition

12th October

• Weavers market

26th October

• Start of the Trowbridge Chamber pumpkin trail + trail maps leading to creative pumpkin displays across the town centre