Your help is needed for Spalding Flower Parade as final work on big event continues

Your help is needed to ensure the Spalding Flower Parade is as beautiful as ever.

Volunteers are being asked to get involved in flower picking and pinning ahead of Saturday’s long awaited event.

Organiser Stephen Timewell is hoping to find several people who would be able to join many others in giving their time picking the tulips in the King’s Lynn area.

The de-heading of about one million tulips continues today (Tuesday) and into tomorrow (Wednesday) while pinning continues at R. Chappell and Sons in Spalding from tomorrow until Friday night. Pinning began at the weekend with two floats already completed and in a cold store.

Yesterday, (Monday), more volunteers met to adorn a large crown float with flowers.

Anyone can attend the farm in Cowbit Road from 10am to 8pm Wednesday and Thursday, while the final push on Friday will run from 10am to late.

The first picking session last Wednesday saw an estimated 100,000 tulips collected and put into cold storage ready for pinning.

For details on how to locate the tulip fields, contact Steve by calling 07516 902673 or emailing info@spaldingflowerparade.org.uk

See Thursday’s Spalding Guardian for an look ahead to the parade, along with a special preview magazine.