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Special Dates

Here are some of the important (perhaps flower related) events and holidays within the coming months..


4 May 2009 May Day Bank Holiday
10 May 2009 International Mother's Day (see our range of Mothers Day Flowers...) For the dates of Mother's Day around the World please see our International Mothers Day Dates page.
25 May 2009 Spring Bank Holiday
13 Jun 2009 Trooping the Colour
21 Jun 2009 Father's Day
22 Aug 2009 Ramadan begins (Muslim)
20 Aug 2009 Qi Xi (sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day in recent years)
31 Aug 2009 Summer Bank Holiday
13 Sep 2009 Grandparents Day UK
19 Sep 2009 Rosh Hashanah - Jewish New Year
20 Sep 2009 Ramadan ends (Muslim)
28 Sep 2009 Yom Kippur (Jewish)
25 Oct 2009 British Summertime Ends - clocks go back 1 hour
31 Oct  2009 Halloween
1 Nov 2009 All Saints Day
5 Nov 2009 Guy Fawkes Night
08 Nov 2008 Remembrance Sunday
11 Nov 2008 Armistice Day
17 Nov 2009 Diwali / Deepavali - "The Festival of Lights" Symbolising the victory of good over evil. Hindu, Sikh
30 Nov 2009 Saint Andrew's Day - Patron Saint of Scotland
12 Dec 2009 Hanukkah begins (Jewish)
19 Dec 2009 Hanukkah ends (Jewish)
25 Dec 2009 Christmas Day (see our range of Christmas Flowers...)
26 Dec2009 Boxing Day
31 Dec 2009 Hogmanay - Scotland
1 Jan 2010 New Year Day
25 Jan 2010 Robert Burns Night
14 Feb  2010 Valentine's Day (see our range of Valentine's Flowers...)
14 Feb 2010 Chinese New Year (of the Tiger)
16 Feb 2010 Shrove Tuesday
17 Feb 2010 Ash Wednesday
1 Mar 2010 Saint David's Day, Patron Saint of Wales
8 Mar 2010 International Women's Day
14 Mar 2010 Mother's Day (UK) (see our range of Mothers Day Flowers...)
(Also Grandmother's Day in France) This falls on the following dates in subsequent years :-
  • 3 April 2011
  • 18 March 2012
  • 10 March 2013
  • 30 March 2014
  • 15 march 2015
  • 6 March 2016
  • 26 March 2017

For the dates of Mother's Day around the World please see our International Mothers Day Dates page.

17 Mar 2009 Saint Patrick's Day, Patron Saint of Ireland
28 Mar 2010 British Summer Time Begins
1 Apr 2010 April Fools Day
2 Apr 2010 Good Friday
4 Apr 2010 Easter Sunday (see our range of Easter Flowers...)

Easter Sunday falls on the following dates for the next 7 years
  • 24th April 2011
  • 8th April 2012
  • 31st March 2013
  • 20th April 2014
  • 5th April 2015 - and the end of the UK tax year !
  • 27th March 2016
  • 16th April 2017
5 Apr 2010 Easter Monday
21 Apr 2010 Queen Elizabeth's Birthday
21 Apr 2010 Administrative Professionals Day
(formerly -  Secretaries Day)
23 Apr 2010
 St. George's Day - Patron Saint of England