Peckover House will be decorated for a special flower festival this September, to celebrate Peckover opening its doors for 60 years.

Peckover boasts one of the finest town gardens in the country, surprisingly large and exuberantly planted in true Victorian style. The elegant Georgian house will be decorated with seasonal flowers, foliage and produce from the garden, as well as the wider Fenland area, which already provides a substantial amount of produce to the country’s food basket.

There will be displays in all rooms of the house, as well as in the gardens, from centre pieces, to arrangements in fireplaces and unusual features - creating an abundance of colour and aroma. Stories about the property and region will be cleverly woven into these arrangements, as Property Manager, Teresa Squires explains;

'In the Morning Room, dried flowers will mimic wooden carvings and hang from the picture rail. In one of the bedrooms, floral curtain swags will be erected where there is a pelmet but no curtains. Then inthe Museum Room there will be an arrangement made of wheat, which is linked to the Coat of Arms that Lord Peckover was given on his peerage that features a Peck of Wheat.

The festival has been arranged by two talented local flower arrangers, John Richmond and Nick Grounds, who are leading lights in the organising and making of arrangements at Wisbech's Rose Fair, one of the regions largest and most successful flower festivals. John and Nick will be working alongside Peckover's volunteer flower arrangers, who come in twice a week to brighten up the property and together will create the displays.

So, for something out of the ordinary, make sure you visit Peckover House and its 60th Anniversary Flower Festival from Saturday 20 to Wednesday 24 September, from 1 to 4.30pm.