Summer colour returns to Horsham with town's floral displays

Horsham District Council’s plants team has placed hanging baskets and flowering containers in a number of prominent positions – which every year attract public admiration.

There are displays outside Horsham Railway Station, along North Road, the Carfax and West Street, among others.

Last year, the council chose a hot orange colour theme but has this year opted for a more subdued pink, purple and white combination.

The floral displays include Salvia ‘Victoria’, white Pelargoniums, Surfinias ‘Blue’ and ‘Blue Vein’, along with two-tone pink Dahlias.

Meanwhile, the council’s parks team is trialling one barrier planter at Horsham Bus Station with peat-free compost to compare it with peat-reduced compost that has traditionally been used.

If successful, says the council, all its baskets and containers will go peat-free from 2026.