
Pinker Times' floral installation outside of Buckhead Village's Don Purcell.
The community-wide festival invites visitors to join in for a weekend of far-out floral installations, hands-on floral workshops from master floral designers, stellar in-store activations, exclusive promotions, and funky photo-ready moments—all vibrantly designed to celebrate spring in style.
GLOBAL FLOWER FESTIVALS FOR YOUR BUCKET LIST
These five flower festivals go beyond parades. They not only celebrate the botanical but also present fantastic, public floral installations for visitors to enjoy.
BODACIOUS BLOOMS FLOWER FESTIVAL

Floratorium's display at Buckhead Village's Bodacious Blooms Festival.

Pinker Times installation of dried flowers and grasses outside Theory in Buckhead Village.
Bodacious Blooms may be the newbie to the urban flower festival scene, but it launched with a bang! Installations from Floratorium, Pinker Times, and Canaan Marshall transformed the Buckhead Village area, a vibrant community of shopkeepers and merchants, boutiques and bartenders, and restaurants and gallery collectives in the heart of Atlanta’s iconic Buckhead neighborhood. In 2023, the festival’s 2nd year featured NYC-based designer East Olivia, as well as Canaan Marshall who brought his signature sense of wonder and fun to the community-wide event.
2024 Dates to Be Announced
Learn more about Bodacious Blooms Flower Festival at buckheadvillagedistrict.com.
CHELSEA IN BLOOM

For the 2022 Chelsea in Bloom theme of "British Icons" Jo Malone celebrated the queen's corgis. Photo by Magdanatka

Chelsea In Bloom tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. Photo by Magdanatka
Next dates: May 22-27, 2023
Learn more about Chelsea in Bloom at https://www.chelseainbloom.co.uk/
L.E.A.F FESTIVAL OF FLOWERS

Renny & Reed flowered a bicycle cart for Hermes as part of the inaugural L.E.A.F festival. Photo by Leatal Cohen, Pic and Petal / Instagram: @picandpetal

Lewis Miller in collaboration with West Coast artist Scott Froschauer at the L.E.A.F Flower Festival 2021. Photo by Leatal Cohen, Pic and Petal / Instagram: @picandpetal
The week of May 14, 2023, L.E.A.F announced that they were pausing the 2023 event. On an Instagram post they said, “We remain committed to our original intention to provide a platform that spotlights New Yorker’s incredible design talent. We hope LEAF will be back again next year, blossoming bigger and better than ever!”
Next dates: 2024
Learn more about L.E.A.F at https://www.leafflowershow.com/
THE FLOWER CARPET OF BRUSSELS

79 x 230 foot live Flower Carpet in Brussels' Grand-Place. Photo by Skyfish

Floral installations installed in the Galleries Royale St. Hubert as part of Brussels in Bloom in 2021. Photo by Xinhua / Alamy Stock Photo
Every other year since 1971, a Flower Carpet blankets Brussels’ Grand-Place, considered the most beautiful central square in the world, with a stunning expanse of begonias, dahlias, and other flowers. Each carpet is 1680 square meters—more than 18,000 square feet)—and designed around a theme. 100 + volunteers lay out the blossoms and lawns over six hours, and the carpet is displayed for four days.
Next dates: August 15 – 18, 2024
Learn more about the Flower Carpet at https://www.flowercarpet.brussels/en.
FLORA INTERNATIONAL FLOWER FESTIVAL

Maurice Harris's installation, "A Colored Perspective" at the Cordoba Archaeology Museum. Photo ©2022 Festival FLORA. Laura Martínez Lombardía photographer

A detail of Cordero Atelier's installation in the Patio de las Columnas a the Viana Palace in Cordoba, Spain.
Next dates: October 16-26, 2023
Learn more about Flora at https://festivalflora.com/en/.

Serving up modern, chic food and fashion in the heart of Atlanta’s iconic Buckhead neighborhood, Buckhead Village is a shopping and dining destination featuring retail from the world’s top fashion houses and emerging artisans, decadent global culinary adventures, as well as wellness classes and experiences. Owned by real estate investment and management firm Jamestown, the property offers guests a stylish and welcoming haven with cobblestone streets, outdoor communal spaces with lush greenery and bold, European-inspired design. For more information, please visit www.buckheadvillagedistrict.com.