Flower Festivals 2026

Church Flower, Crafts and Art Festivals across the area. This page was launched in August 2025 and is awaiting details and proof 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

🌷☕🍰Sunday 1 February, 2:00pm: Snowdrops, cuppa and cake,  St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB) PE9 4SN

🌷🥣☕🍰Saturday 7/14/22 & Sunday 8/15/22 February, 10:00am: Snowdrop Walks, refreshments at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) (Elloe Stone Benefice) PE12 6TA

🌷☕🍰Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 February, 1:00pm: Snowdrops, tea and cake, St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck  (FB), (The Glen Group) PE11 3QG

🌷Sunday 22 February, 11:00am: Snowdrop Sunday, St Nicholas, Skirbeck (FB) (Pilgrim Group)

🌷☕🍰Saturday 28 February, 10:00am: Coffee and Cake (and snowdrops), Priory church hall, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

🌷☕🍰Saturday 21 March, 2:00pm: Snowdrop Afternoon Tea Party, £15, bubbly extra £5, live entertainment, St Mary the Virgin, Swineshead (FB) (FB Friends) ACNY (Haven Group)

🌷☕🍰Saturday 21 March, 3:00pm: Daffodil Tea, £6, Sleaford Training Band, St John the Baptist, Great Hale (FB) (ACNY)

🌷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)

🌷February: Snowdrops at St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

April & May Flower Festivals

🌷Saturday 25 April - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Church Festivals', Café,  St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group) PE11 4AB/PE11 4DA

🌷Saturday 25 - Sunday 26 April: *Flower Festival 'Patron Saints', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY  PE20 2NJ, also 3-4/5

🌷Thursday 30 April - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Celebrate with flowers', Gosberton Methodist (FB, FB2, FB3) (Circuit website); Sunday 3/5, 4:30pm: Songs of Praise; Tuesday 5/5, 7:00pm: Service of Thanksgiving

🌷Thursday 30 April - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Moulton Chapel, A Village Life', Moulton Chapel Methodist (FB)

🌷Thursday 30 April - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'A Festival of Flowers', St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB); PE11 3QG

🌷Thursday 30 April - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Rhymes', St Mary's, Pinchbeck (FB 2026) (old FB) ACNY, (The Glen Group); PE11 3UA

🌷Friday 1 - Saturday 2 May: *Flower Festival 'Transport', Sutterton Methodist (FB) (South Holland Circuit)

🌷Friday 1 - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Celebrating Lincolnshire', All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY; PE12 6QB

🌷Friday 1 - Tuesday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'TV Favourites', St Mary's Long Sutton, (FB) (FB 2025) ACNY PE12 9JJ

🌷Friday 1 - Saturday 9 May: *Flower Festival 'Diamonds - 60th Anniversary', St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA

🌷Saturday 2 - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Aesop's Fables', St John the Evangelist, Weston Hills, PE12 6DQ (near PE12 6DS)

🌷Sunday 3 - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Patron Saints', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY  PE20 2NJ

🌷Sunday 3 - Monday 4 May: *Flower Festival 'Miracles', Holbeach Baptist Church (FB) PE12 7DN

🌷 Sunday 3 May, 1:00pm: Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade (FB) PE12 0XQ

Sunday 3 - Monday 4 May: Village Scarecrow Festival, £5 per car, Church Tower Tours, Music in Church; more info via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB) Uffington Lincs (FB) or Uffington Village (FB)

🎨🪡Monday 4 May, 10:00am: Craft Fayre, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🌷Spalding Flower Parade (FB) Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May "Countries of the World" (cancelled, 1/26)

🌷Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 May: Celebrating Spalding, floral & produce arrangements,  St Mary & St Nicolas (FB) poster 

🌷Friday 15 May - Monday 17 May: *Flower Festival celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the 'new' building, with the Lincolnshire Methodist collection of arts and crafts, Holbeach Methodist (FB) poster

🌷Friday 22 May - Monday 25 May: *Flower Festival 'All Things Bright & Beautiful', St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) (Elloe Stone Benefice) poster

🌷Saturday 23 May - Monday 25 May: *Flower Festival 'A Question of Sport', All Saints, Holbeach (FB); PE12 7LL

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

Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 May: West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)

Saturday 16 - Sunday 17 May: West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)

Summer Flower and Craft Festivals

🎵🍺 Friday 5 - Sunday 7 June: Beer at the Priory (FB), various bands and performances, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY PE6 8HD

Saturday 13 June: Pinchbeck Village Carnival (FB)

🌷Friday 19 - Sunday 21 June: *Flower Festival '100 Years of David Attenborough', Sutton St James, ACNY near PE12 0EF

🌷Thursday 2- Sunday 5 July: *Flower Festival 'Headline News', St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) PE12 9SA (Sunday from midday)

🌷Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 July: *Flower Festival 'Remember When...', St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) PE12 0BU

August Bank Holiday

🌷Friday 28 - Monday 31 August: *Flower Festival 'Silver', St Nicholas, Lutton (FB); PE12 9HP

🌷Friday 28 - Monday 31 August: *Flower Festival 'Colours of the Rainbow', Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

Harvest Festivals

See also August, September and October pages

Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 September Wolds and Coast churches festival (FB)

🌽🌷Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 September: Moulton village (FB) Harvest Weekend and Harvest Flower Festival at All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

🌷Craft and Flower weekend, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft PE20 2NJ ACNY

🌽🌷Harvest Flower Festival, refreshments and lunches, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY (Haven Group)

🎨Art Exhibition, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 September Wolds and Coast churches festival (FB)

🌷Flower Festival,  Emmanuel Church, Parson Drove, PE13 4JA (FB)  (ACNY) (St John's FB) (Murrow FB)

Spalding Pumpkin Festival

Saturday 3 October: Spalding Pumpkin Festival (SHDC FB) 

Churches involved in various ways in previous years - or details awaited:

🌷 Tulips at the Abbey - bring a vase of tulips in memory, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN tbc

🌷Flower Festival, Thorney Abbey (FB) PE6 0QA

🎪Garden Fête, Gosberton Baptist (FB)

🌷Flower Festival, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone group)

🎵🍺 Beer at the Priory, various bands and performances, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY PE6 8HD

💐Open Gardens; more info via Thurlby Methodist (Circuit) or St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

Makers Market at St John's, Parson Drove, PE13 4LF (FB) (Murrow FB) (CCTSt John's)

🌷Flower Festival, Holbeach St Mark's ACNY (Friends group FB) near PE12 8DZ

🌷Flower Festival, St Mary's, Frampton (FB) ACNY PE20 1AD/PE20 1AH

🎪Pinchbeck Carnival (FB)

🌷🎪Rose and Sweet Pea show and Garden fête, Priory church, Deeping St James (FB) ACNY PE6 8NP

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

🌷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)

🌷*Flower Festival, Sutton St James Baptist (FB) PE12 0EF

🎪Garden Fête, Rectory Garden; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

🌷*Flower Festival, St James Moulton Chapel (Elloe Stone group) PE12 0XQ

🌷Tulip Remembrance, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone group)

🌷*Flower and Craft Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet PE12 8AW

🌷Flower Festival, Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill (ACNY) (FB) (Elloe Fen group) PE12 0NN

🌷Flower Festival, St Paul's (FB) ACNY 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) 

🌷Spalding Flower Parade (FB) Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 May "Countries of the World" (cancelled, 1/26)

Some town centre churches were open in previous years for refreshments and more

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

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

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

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

 Fleet Baptist; PE12 8LL

See also: West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB)