Flower Festivals 2025

Church Flower, Crafts and Art Festivals across the area. This page is awaiting further details and proff checking - apologies for errors and omissions; please let us know any errors or edits - thank you. [Italics = awaiting confirmation]

Many of the festivals are also included in the brochure* (available in many participating churches; an asterisk [*] below denotes festivals usually listed in the brochure).
You may wish to check with individual churches direct for any changes and ticket availability and prices where appropriate.

Opening times: most Flower Festivals open around 10:00am, some with changes on Sundays; please check with individual churches for times and any late changes
Pictures of many of previous floral festivals - and this year's posters, where available - on: www.facebook.com/SouthHollandChurchFestivals
See also our Diary pages for April, May, June, July...
Use: ⋮ / Find in page / CTRL+F / ⌘+F to search for individual churches on this page

Snowdrops

Snowdrops; see also the National Churches Trust map

🌷Friday 25 January: Snowdrops and Aconites at St Mary the Virgin, Swineshead (FB/FB) ACNY (FB Group)

🌷Saturday 26 January: Snowdrops at St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

🌷☕🍰Sunday 2 February, 2:00pm: Snowdrops, St Michael & All Angels, Uffington, ACNY (FB) Group (FB) PE9 4SN 

🌷☕🍰Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 February, 1:00pm: Snowdrop weekend, refreshments, St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB) PE11 3QG

February: Snowdrops at St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB) PE10 0EH

February: Snowdrops at All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY

February: Snowdrops at Thorney Abbey (FB)

Tuesday 11 - Saturday 15 February: Luxmuralis at Lincoln Cathedral; more info and tickets via https://lincolncathedral.com/events/time-by-luxmuralis/

🌷🥣☕🍰Saturday 8 & Sunday 9 February, 10:00am: Snowdrop walks, home made soups, refreshments at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) PE12 6TA 

🌷🥣☕🍰Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 February, 10:00am: Snowdrop walks, home made soups, refreshments at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) PE12 6TA 

🌷☕🍰Saturday 22 February, 10:00am: Coffee and Cake (and snowdrops), Priory church hall, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

🌷🥣☕🍰Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 February, 10:00am: Snowdrop walks, home made soups, refreshments at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) PE12 6TA 

Monday 24 February - Sunday 9 March: Tears of Gold art exhibition in conjunction with Open Doors See.Change, Lincoln Cathedral (FB)

🪡Wednesday 12 February - Sunday 16 March: 'Clothed in Glory' embroidery exhibition from 1876 to the 1960's from the archives of the Community of Sisters of Ely Cathedral (FB)

🪡Tuesday 4 March - Tuesday 1 April: 'The Longest Yarn', 80 metre long knitted and crocheted scenes of the D Day landings, suggested donation £2.50,  Peterborough Cathedral (FB) ACNY

April & May Flower Festivals

🌷 Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 April: Flower Festival 'Wigtoft Past and Present', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY  PE20 2NJ, also 3-4/5

🌷 Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 April, 11:00am (Sunday 12:00pm): Tulips at the Abbey - bring a vase of tulips in memory on Friday 25/4, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🌷 Saturday 26 April - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'A Great Day Out', St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group) PE11 4AB/PE11 4DA

🌷Wednesday 30 April - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'A Festival of Flowers', St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB); PE11 3QG (Dates printed in the *brochure have been updated on this webpage)

🌷🎵Thursday 1 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Saying it with flowers - Memories', St Mary's, Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY, (The Glen Group) Saturday 3 May, 7:00pm: Tappers, Tunes and Tambourines - concert cancelled; PE11 3UA

🌷Thursday 1 - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Sing Out Loud', Gosberton Methodist (FB, FB2, FB3) Sunday 4:30pm: Songs of Praise PE11 4NQ

🌷Thursday 1 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Cottage Garden', St James Moulton Chapel (Elloe Stone group) PE12 0XQ

🌷 Thursday 1 - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'All the Fun of Pantomimes', Moulton Chapel Methodist; PE12 0XL

🌷Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May: Tulip Remebrance; family service on Sunday 4 May, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone Benefice)

🌷Friday 2 - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'The World of Music', All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone Benefice) PE12 6QB

🌷 Sunday 4 May, 1:00pm: Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade (FB) PE12 0XQ

🌷Friday 2 - Tuesday 6 May: *Flower Festival 'To-day's the Day', St Mary Long Sutton, (FB) ACNY PE12 9JJ

🌷Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May: *Flower Festival 'Farming', Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website) near PE20 2EY

🌷Friday 2 - Sunday 11 May: *Flower Festival '1960's', St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA

🌷 Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 May: Flower Festival 'Wigtoft Past and Present', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY  PE20 2NJ, also 26-27/4

🌷 Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Wedding Anniversaries', St John the Evangelist, Weston Hills, PE12 6DQ (near PE12 6DS)

🌷Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower and Craft Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet PE12 8AW

🌷Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: Flower Festival 'Victory', Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill (ACNY) (FB) (Elloe Fen group) PE12 0NN

🌷Sunday 4 - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'All Creatues Great and Small', Holbeach Baptist Church (FB); opening on the Sunday at 10:30am with Songs of Praise, PE12 7DN

🎶Sunday 4 - Monday 5 May, 11:00am: Village Scarecrow Festival 'Heroes and Heroines' - and Music in Church; more info via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB)

🎨Monday 5 May, 10:00am: Craft Fair, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🌷Monday 5 May: Flower Festival, St Paul's (FB) ACNY 

🪡Friday 9 May - Monday 30 June: 'Threads Through the Bible - Creation + Cross + Revelation' by Jacqui Parkinson Textiles at Ely Cathedral (FB)

🌷Spalding Flower Parade (FB) Saturday & Sunday 10 & 11 May
Saturday 10 May, 11:00am: Flower Parade  - and more on Friday 9 May and Sunday 11 May

Some town centre churches open for refreshments and more - details awaited (9/5)

🌷Float celebrating 150 years, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

🌷Flower Parade includes Spalding Marching Ambassadors (FB); more info via Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Refreshments, hot drinks, cakes, savouries, Broad Street Methodist (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Refreshments, stalls, Spalding Baptist (FB)

🌷☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Flower Festival, Refreshments, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 10:00am: Refreshments, craft stalls, church tours, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 10:00am: Refreshments, St Paul's (FB)

10-11 May and 17-18 May: West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)

🌷Friday 23 May - Monday 26 May: *Flower Festival 'Books and Novels - Beauty of Words in Bloom', St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone Benefice) PE12 6TA

Summer Flower and Craft Festivals

🌷Sunday 1 June: Flower Festival, Children's Books, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone group)

🎵🍺 Friday 6 - Sunday 8 June: Beer at the Priory, various bands and performances, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY PE6 8HD

💐Saturday 7 - Sunday 8 June: Open Gardens; more info via Thurlby Methodist (Circuit) or St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

Sunday 8 June, 10:00am: Makers Market at St John's, Parson Drove, PE13 4LF (FB) (Murrow FB) (CCTSt John's)

🌷Saturday 14 - Sunday 15 June [onwards]: Flower Festival, Holbeach St Mark's ACNY (Friends group FB) near PE12 8DZ

🌷Friday 13 - Monday 16 June: Flower Festival, St Mary's, Frampton (FB) ACNY PE20 1AD/PE20 1AH

🎪 Saturday 14 June, 12:00pm: Pinchbeck Carnival (FB)

🌷Friday 20 June - Sunday 22 June: *Flower Festival 'Childhood Memories, Sutton St James, ACNY near PE12 0EF

🌷🎪Saturday 28 June, 1:00pm: Rose and Sweet Pea show and Garden fête, Priory church, Deeping St James (FB) ACNY PE6 8NP

🌷Saturday 28 June: St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) , feast weekend

🌷☕Sunday 29 June, 9:30am: Patronal festival service with flowers, St Peter's, Ropsley (FB) ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

🌷 St John the Baptist, Whaplode Drove (Schoolroom FB) (Gedney Hill FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group); PE12 0TN

🎪🎨☕Morton Village Fête; more info via St John the Baptist, Morton (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🌷 Thursday 10 July - Sunday 13 July: *Flower Festival 'Biblical Stories in Bloom', St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) PE12 9SA (brochure: 'Sutton Bridge through the Ages')

🌷Friday 11 July - Saturday 12 July: *Flower Festival 'New Beginnings', Sutton St James Baptist (FB) PE12 0EF

🎪Saturday 12 July, 2:00pm: Garden Fête, Rectory Garden; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

🌷Thursday 24 - Sunday 27 July: *Flower Festival 'Say it with Flowers', St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) PE12 0BU

🪡4 July - 31 August: 'Threads Through the Bible - Creation + Cross + Revelation' by Jacqui Parkinson Textiles at Lincoln Cathedral (FB)

August Bank Holiday

🌷Friday 22 August - Monday 25 August: *Flower Festival 'Kaleidoscope', St Nicholas, Lutton (FB); PE12 9HP

🌷 Friday 22 August - Monday 25 August: *Flower Festival 'Heavens Above', Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🌷Saturday 23 - Monday 25 August: Flower Festival, 'Countries of the World' Thorney Abbey (FB / FB Event) / 2025 FB) PE6 0QA

🎪Monday 25 August, 10:30am: Garden Fête, Gosberton Baptist (FB)

Harvest Festivals

See also August, September and October pages

6-7 September and 13-14 September Wolds and Coast churches festival (FB)

🌽🌷Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September: Moulton village (FB) Harvest Weekend and Harvest Flower Festival at All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone Benefice)

🌷Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 September, 10:00am: Craft and Flower weekend 'D Day and the Forties', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft PE20 2NJ ACNY

🎨Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 September: Art in the Abbey, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🌽🌷🍴Thursday 18 - Sunday 21 September: Harvest Flower Festival, refreshments and lunches, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY (Haven Group)

🌷Friday 26 - Sunday 28 September: Flower Festival,  Emmanuel Church, Parson Drove, PE13 4JA (FB)  (ACNY) (St John's FB) (Murrow FB)

🎵Friday 3 October: Harvest Festival and Supper with music from the Ploughan and the Crow, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group)

🌽🌷🍽️☕Friday 3 - Sunday 5 October: Harvest Festival with Floral Displays; lunches in the Fraiser Room, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group)

🌽☕Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 October: Harvest Festival weekend, decorated church, coffee shop, activities for children, St Mary's, Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY  The Glen Group

Spalding Pumpkin Festival

Saturday 4 October: Spalding Pumpkin Festival

Churches involved in various ways in previous years include:

 All Saints, Holbeach (FB); PE12 7LL

St Peter & St Paul, Gosberton (FB) PE11 4EW

Gosberton Baptist (FB), PE11 4NP

St Matthew's, Eye (FB) PE6 7UZ

 St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) 

 Fleet Baptist; PE12 8LL

See also: West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)