A quarter of a million tulips picked for parade
BBCThe final preparations are under way for this year's Spalding Flower Parade.
About a quarter of a million tulips have been hand-picked by 30 volunteers.
They will be pinned on to floats which will parade through the Lincolnshire town on 10 May.
It's the third year the event has been held since returning from a 10-year break in 2023.
Laura Hudson, creative lead, has been designing the floats since September 2024.
She said: "This is the flower family, this is what it's all about. We are such a little community and we are just so happy.
"It's going to be really exciting to see everything that we've put in over the past few months come to life."
The flower heads, which are a by-product of producing tulip bulbs, are classed as waste.
Volunteer Tanya Chandler said: "We're being sustainable. We're coming along and picking them, and giving them a new lease of life.
"There are people from walks of life here that you wouldn't necessarily meet – but we all come together and have a shared interest, and that's the flower parade."
The event will leave the Springfields Events and Conference Centre on 10 May 11:00 BST and take a route around the town.
There will also be musical entertainment on 9 May from 19:00 BST and on 10 May from 15:00 BST.
The annual parade began in 1959 to celebrate the area's flower growing, but ended in 2013. It was revived in 2023.
Nowadays, the tulips in the parade come from Norfolk as a result of a decline in the industry in Lincolnshire.
In May 2024, the previous organisers of the event said it would be cancelled this year because of a lack of council support and problems finding a venue.
However, in June it was confirmed by a new committee that the procession would go ahead.
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