Take pictures of your favourite floral displays around Chesterfield for digital flower festival

Chesterfield residents are being encouraged to share pictures of gardens, wildlife and wildflowers they spot around the borough in order to help create a digital flower festival.
Have you spotted any beautiful flowers around the town?Have you spotted any beautiful flowers around the town?
Have you spotted any beautiful flowers around the town?

The virtual festival, Grow and Tell, aims to collect images from around the borough in June and July that show off some of the colourful flower displays created by residents, as well as wildflowers and wildlife from across the borough’s many green spaces.

Residents are also asked to share some of the stories behind the photographs.

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Chesterfield Borough Council’s Coun Jill Mannion-Brunt, cabinet member for health and wellbeing, said: “With the cancellation of Britain in Bloom, Grow and Tell is a chance for us all to show how marvellous Chesterfield looks at this time of year.

“I hope lots of people will send pictures of all the hard work they’ve done during lockdown in their gardens and pictures of the unusual flowers they have spotted whilst exploring the borough.”

All the images and accompanying messages that are sent in will be placed in a special gallery on the council’s website and Facebook page for anyone to view whenever they need a splash of colour and inspiration.

In order to share your pictures for Grow and Tell, send them to [email protected] or send them via a message on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChesterfieldBoroughCouncil or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/ChesterfieldBC.

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In addition to the digital flower festival, Chesterfield Borough Council is holding a competition to find the borough’s best sunflowers, with garden centre vouchers on offer as prizes for the winners.

To enter the event, send a picture of your sunflower, stating your name and the category you want to enter (tallest, most flower heads or largest flower head) to [email protected].

The competition will run until Wednesday, September 30.

Winners will be given a special certificate and vouchers that can be used at garden centres.

The council will announce the winners on social media and share some of the best pictures from the competition.

Visit www.chesterfield.gov.uk for more information on either of the projects.