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City businesses and partners join forces for Exeter’s Britain in Bloom competition entry

Exeter is looking blooming lovely this summer thanks to a city-wide effort to create a stunning Britain in Bloom entry.

With over 180 hanging baskets, raised beds and planters, a student herb garden, city bee project with five hives located in a rooftop garden, bikes in bloom, the creation of Exeter Wild City with Devon Wildlife Trust and well-maintained landscaped areas across the city, Exeter is championing how cities and green spaces can mix.

The floral spectacles are a result of InExeter, Co Create, Exeter College, Exeter City Council, Princesshay, Guildhall Shopping...

'Colours of the Wind' Flower Festival

Event Date: 
01/06/2019 - 10:00am to 06/06/2019 - 5:00pm
Venue: 
Crediton Parish Church, Crediton

The Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival is one of the main fundraising events for the upkeep of Holy Cross and many people from our parishes work to make it a very special and memorable week.

The 2019 Festival has the intriguing title ‘Colours of the Wind’ and runs from 10am on Saturday 1st June until 5pm on Thursday 6th June.

Work towards the 2019 Flower Festival began as soon as the 2018 Festival ended.

Last years’ Festival was ‘In Our Element’ and if you would like to see photos of previous festivals and videos of how a car and a rhino got into the church then...

How do you get a rhino and a car into Church?

Authored by Melman5
Posted: Wed, 05/17/2017 - 1:58pm

Crediton is getting ready for a new visitor.

The team at Crediton Parish Church have to produce new themes and ideas each year, which will work as an exhibition with flowers. This year's Crediton Parish Church Flower Festival theme is no exception.

Intriguingly entitled 'What's the Point...', the team will be coaxing a rhino into church, with our outside broadcast crew taking photos and video from a safe distance.

Twelve months hard work goes into the planning and preparation for the Festival. If you wish to see how our talented (and brave) team...

It’s blooming good for National Trust

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 05/16/2017 - 10:51pm

Gardeners at three National Trust properties in Devon are celebrating a total of seventeen prizes across multiple categories, after a sweep of awards were won for rhododendron, magnolias, camellias and floral arrangements at the recent RHS Rosemoor Garden Show. Garden teams at Castle Drogo, Killerton and Greenway were thrilled to receive awards for their hard work nurturing the colourful flora, which visitors in Devon will be able enjoy when visiting the properties this season. Successes included ten prizes for Killerton, near Exeter, with four first prizes, three second prizes, two third...

Crediton Parish Church Annual Exhibition with Flowers: Outside the Box

Event Date: 
04/06/2016 - 10:00am to 09/06/2016 - 6:00pm
Venue: 
Crediton Parish Church, Crediton EX17 2AH

The theme of our annual flower festival at Crediton Parish Church is ‘Outside the Box’.

Enjoy eye-catching floral arrangements in and around boxes of all kinds – from romantic, poignant, witty to quirky.

A major fund raising event towards the on-going maintenance and upkeep of this fine 15th Century Grade 1 listed building, Crediton Parish Church is thought by some to be one of the finest parish churches of its kind in Devon.

The floral exhibition takes place Saturday 4th June – Thurs 9th June at 10.00am – 6pm, except Sunday at 11am – 6pm.

This is one of the...

Flower painting inspires designer at Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival

Floral designer and judge on BBC2’s “The Big Allotment Challenge”, Jonathan Moseley has gathered a selection of garden blooms and purchased flowers to create the eclectic mix of colours and varieties to bring a 17th century Dutch floral painting to life in anticipation of the exciting gardening spectacular Toby Buckland’s Garden Festival at Powderham Castle.

"The painters of the Dutch masters could arguably be termed the first arrangers of flowers in the Western style,” says Jonathan, “their intrinsic understanding of form, colour and texture are still inspirational to arrangers...

Tributes paid to boy killed in crash

Dozens of floral tributes have been laid at the scene of an accident in which a 10-year-old Devon boy died.

The side of a house has become a temporary memorial to Samuel Crocker

One of the tributes read: "To dear Samuel. We are all missing you and are devastated that your life was ended early. We hope you are OK and we will never forget you. From Tristan".

A resident, who asked not to be named, said Samuel was a popular boy and that the whole community was in shock.

Samuel William James Crocker, from the Crediton area, was involved in a collision with a...