As part of this year’s Art Walk Porty Festival, in celebration of our tenth year, we are creating a front gardens festival inviting local people to create and grow flourishing, colourful, pollinator-rich gardens for the period 30th August-14th September. Our hope is to increase biodiversity and connect neighbours together whilst celebrating nature, wildlife and colour.
We invite you to create gardens inspired by ideas of seaside retro in keeping with our 2025 ‘ShowGround’ theme of Porty’s entertainment era.
All those participating will be included on our Art Walk Map and receive a ‘Flowering Porty’ sign for their garden. There is no cost to taking part.
Gardens will need to be publicly viewable from the street. Window boxes, common greens or community spaces are also very welcome to take part.
‘Flowering Porty’ will be voted on by the public, with three prizes for the Best Seaside Retro Garden, with results announced on the last day of the festival.
To be involved please sign up using the link below by 10th April. We will then be in touch to confirm your inclusion in ‘Flowering Porty’. As this is a new venture numbers may have to be limited but we hope to accept in region of 50-60 gardens to take part within the Portobello and Joppa area.