WIMBORNE will host its first major flower festival in seven years next month, celebrating the 900th anniversary of the Minster building.
The flower festival is usually held every five years but was cancelled in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
Sharon Austin from Carnival Flowers is designing the festival and has been working hard with a small team from the Minster to ensure that the whole event will be a success.
There will be a number of Tableaux and many other floral arrangements throughout the Minster all depicting the festival theme, which is “trades – past and present”.
The festival will be open on the Friday September 2, lasting until Monday, September 5, from 10am to 6pm and on Sunday from 2pm until 6pm.
Sonnaz Nooranvary (Sonnaz from the BBCs Repair Shop) will officially open the event on the Friday at 11am.
On the Sunday, the Minster will be celebrating its Patronal Festival and the new Bishop of Salisbury The Right Revd Stephen Lake will preside and preach at the 9.30am Parish Eucharist when he will also dedicate the rebuilt Minster organ.
Entrance charge to the festival will be £5, with no concessions but entry for children will be free.
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