Gardeners and garden lovers will be pleased to learn that this year’s City of Edinburgh floral clock will celebrate Trellis, the national charity for therapeutic gardening. A fitting tribute in what is their 20th anniversary year.
Trellis Anniversary Celebrated with Unique Floral Clock Display
Gardeners and garden lovers will be pleased to learn that this year’s City of Edinburgh floral clock will celebrate Trellis, the national charity for therapeutic gardening. A fitting tribute in what is their 20th anniversary year.
The Floral Clock, which is situated in Princes Street Gardens, was first created in 1903 and is the oldest floral clock of its kind in the world. It initially operated with just an hour hand, with a minute hand added a year later, followed by a cuckoo clock in 1952. For another 20 years the clock was operated mechanically and was wound daily.
Since 1946 various organisations and individuals have been honoured in the Floral Clock display including the RNLI, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Queen, in her Golden Jubilee year. In the clock's centenary year in 2003 it won a Gold Medal at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The display is scheduled to be finished in June with a formal opening in July and should bloom until October, weather permitting!
CEO of Trellis, Fiona Thackeray, said:
“It is such an honour for Trellis to be chosen for this year’s Floral Clock, in what is a special year in our charity’s short history. In just 20 years Trellis has taken an unknown therapeutic intervention into the heart of communities and health and care services and has helped the profession and the people it supports to flourish as a result.
“I hope that people visiting the floral clock will take a moment to recognise not only the great skill involved in creating such a display but also the profound and positive impact that plants and nature can have on their wellbeing.”
Trellis was founded 20 years ago - a relatively young charity to receive the honour of the floral clock display - but in that time, it has grown a network of therapeutic gardening projects throughout Scotland, from just 83 when they started to over 530 today. These projects provide vital support to nearly 15,000 disabled and vulnerable people every week, helping them to improve their lives through gardening, plants and nature connection.
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Notes to Editors
Trellis media contact:
Jo Cook, Development Officer, jo@trellisscotland.org.uk
City of Edinburgh Council media contact:
Eric McBride, Media Officer, Erin.McBride@edinburgh.gov.uk
Key facts about Trellis
Trellis is the Scottish charity that supports people to improve their health and wellbeing through gardening, plants and nature connection. As well as running its own Therapeutic Gardening programmes for disabled and disadvantaged people, Trellis provides training, resources and support for over 530 therapeutic gardening projects across the country which in turn help over 15,000 improve their lives through gardening. The charity celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2026.
Learn more about Trellis
For more information, please visit the Trellis website (www.trellisscotland.org.uk) or social media channels: Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Members of the public may contact Trellis on 01738 624348 or by email to info@trellisscotland.org.uk.