Garden Festival

Each year TRESA holds a competition to recognise and award those who put in the effort to make their garden look beautiful and therefore make Totterdown a more pleasant place to live.  We have often held a festival in the summer to celebrate Totterdown gardens.


GREAT GET TOGETHER 2019

28th June 2019
A HUGE “Thank You!” to everyone who made this year’s GREAT GET TOGETHER such a special occasion. Here’s a few photos to enjoy. On the afternoon of Sunday 23 June we gathered on Zone A for music, dance, food and entertainment and we weren’t disappointed! Who cares about a little light drizzle! Special thanks to: Fanny Tingle’s Tantalising Flavours, Floriography, Fox & West, Jane Vellender (‘When Art met Cloth’), Marie Curie Cancer Care fundraising, Totterdown Methodist Church, TRESA, Shynee Ladies, Small Days, The Pop-up Dance Emporium, The Road Zombies and Three Streets Exhibition. TRESA Garden Awards – again it was…

TRESA FRONT GARDEN COMPETITION 2018, and the winners are…

16th August 2018
With over 400 good garden certificates issued in this year’s TRESA FRONT GARDEN COMPETITION, there were plenty of interesting entries for the judges to consider. After much deliberation, there were 3 worthy winners, who have now all received their awards and prizes for a gardening job very well done! Congratulations to everyone who won a certificate of merit and thanks also to our sponsors FIG1, GREENWOODS and TOTTERDOWN CANTEEN. The winners, and judges’ comments, are as follows -: Best Front Garden, sponsored by GREENWOODS -  23 Upper Street.      This front garden is very small but contains a good…

Garden Festival 2017

12th July 2017
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s GARDEN FESTIVAL!It was a whole heap of fun. A chilled out afternoon for friends and family to enjoy – the sun shone and we all relaxed and took time out from our busy lives.We enjoyed music from The Road Zombies, a burst of sparkle and shine from the Shiny Pop-up Dance Emporium, floral delights and creations with Floriography, cool drinks from Banco Lounge and some intellectual and unusual literary finds from Tangent Books. TRESA had loads of information on their projects and membership news, and invited regular newsletter contributor Ms…

Carolyn Jones

Project Lead