Other highlights Saturday 12 - 4pm
Flower and Produce Show
Find out more about how you can get your organic fresh food straight to your front door!
DEAN’S PARK GARDENS
Bloom! is back in miniature this summer with a host of brilliant events, workshops and offerings for all the family. With a selection of some of York’s best-loved green-fingered businesses, local growers, community garden groups and many more, we hope that you enjoy the weekend and will be back for more next summer!
Please note that we are aiming to keep this festival plastic free as far as possible. Please ensure that you recycle everything you can in the bins available.
With special thanks to
22 - 23 JUNE 2019 DEAN’S PARK GARDENS, YORK MINSTER visityork.org/bloom
Supported by
Riverford Organic
Take a peek under the canvas of our old school marquee, and see what entries have come in for Bloom’s first Flower & Produce Show. This traditional event with a contemporary twist will showcase the talent of York’s most green-fingered residents and those with a flair for baking, jam making and more! Best in show prizes from The National Trust, The Dean Court Hotel, The Botanist, Yorganics, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Rainbows Ceramics & Fortyfive Vinyl Café. Entries are accepted on the day 8 - 10am for information see visityork.org/bloom.
York Minster Florists Get your cameras out and snap a selfie surrounded by a beautiful floral picture frame created by the wonderful floristry team at York Minster.
ibloom Florists This one you simply won’t be able to miss! Totally fresh, all locally grown, this installation created by York’s ibloom florists will definitely wow!
Tessa Bunney Photography #britishflowers An outdoor photographic exhibition showcasing a selection of stunning British Flowers, each grown by British Flower Farmers.
Plant and Flower Market
Sunday 11am - 4pm
Share your Bloom! experince with us:
DEAN’S PARK GARDENS Take this opportunity to purchase from, and speak to, local flower farmers, florists, nurseries and specialist growers from across the County, each of whom will be showcasing their unique products for you to take home and add to your own garden, vegetable patch or windowsill. Expect plants and posies from Askham Bryan Horticultural College, iBloom Florists, Botanic, Fayrefield Plant Nursery, Miss Pots Plant Emporium and floral photography from Tessa Bunney!
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surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BloomYork2019 All information correct at time of print. The organisers reserve the right to alter or withdraw activities at any time. Discover the latest information at visityork.org/bloom
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Saturday 22 June ALSO ON
SUNDAY
Sunday 23 June
Wall Flower Workshop with Hatti McKenzie
The Bee Story Workshop!
Drop-in Mandala Making Workshop
Hula Hoop Hooray with York’s High Hoops
SAT & SUN 11AM - 1PM & 2 - 4PM | FREE
SUNDAY 12.30 - 4PM | FREE
SUNDAY 12 - 4PM | FREE
Another fun and particularly therapeutic workshop with artist Mim Robson. Create your own flower mandalas (temporary artworks made with flowers, leaves and petals) from items found around the Dean’s Park Gardens.
Take advantage of being outside, to have a go and learn hula hoop and poi skills with York’s ‘High Hoops’. How many hoops can you keep going at once?
Join arts practitioner and bee enthusiast Florence Boyd for a fun, informative and creative workshop exploring the life of the humble bumble bee!
Fruit & Vegetable Portraits
SUNDAY 11AM - 4PM Join Hatti McKenzie, local artist, gardening enthusiast and Chair of ‘The Friends of The Lanes Community Garden’ and help with her campaign to bring more plants to York’s residential streets. Donations to The Friends of The Lanes Community Garden.
Pilates in the Park
SATURDAY 10.30AM - 12PM | FREE
For more information visityork.org/bloom
SUNDAY 12 - 4PM | BOOKING ESSENTIAL
Meet the wonderful Mim Robson who will encourage you to look at portrait painting with an entirely fresh view, helping you create the wackiest, greenest, tastiest pictures you ever did see!
Lou of York Pilates People will be breaking out of the studio to provide a one-off outdoor class! Focus on your body, feel the elements, and forget about the inside world. Book using yorkpilatespeople.as.me/bloom
Fruit & Vegetable Sculptures
Yonder Honey
SATURDAY 2 - 3.30PM | FREE
SUNDAY 11AM - 4PM
Take inspiration from the buildings, trees and the lofty Minster nearby and create your own eco-friendly, compostable sculptures with artist Mim Robson.
A jar of Yonder Honey is a snapshot in time and place. Meet Julia Smith, the bee-keeper behind the honey, and find out more about bees and beekeeping.
ALSO ON
SUNDAY
Pollinator Prowl with St Nicks
Bee Lovely! With Neal’s Yard Remedies
Flower Power York
SAT & SUN 11AM & 2PM | FREE
SATURDAY 12 - 4PM
SUNDAY 11AM - 4PM
Experience the Bee Lovely skincare range from Neal’s Yard Remedies – a range central to their Save the Bees Campaign - with a free mini treatment experience courtesy of their lovely York team.
Find out more about local organisation Flower Power York whilst you sample some of their produce made from the spices, plants and flowers grown by the team! Mango Lassi with fennel seeds anyone? Donations to Flower Power York.
Gardening for Wildlife - Advice Surgery
Circus Skills York Workshop!
Edible York Bring & Share Community Picnic
SAT & SUN 11AM - 4PM
SATURDAY 12 - 4PM | FREE
SUNDAY 12 - 2PM | FREE
Come and try your hand at some circus skills, under the watchful guidance of Circus Skills York. Have a go at juggling, plate spinning and flower-sticks!
Join the Edible York community picnic for a chance to meet, and learn about, the communities growing their own fruit and vegetables in York.
Thanks to the hard work of pollinating insects we can all eat fruit and veg and enjoy beautiful gardens. Learn more about these busy creatures as we explore the surrounding gardens.
ALSO ON
SUNDAY
Meet St Nicks – York’s centre for nature and green living – and chat to this knowledgeable bunch about how you can make your garden, yard or front windowsill more wildlife friendly.