Video and pictures: Green fingers meet Goldfinger at church's Bond-themed flower festival

But when organisers decided on a James Bond theme for the annual bank holiday weekend display at St Peter's Church in Pudleston, things really took off as those involved got in the 007 spirit.

Robin Wilson, churchwarden at the village near Leominster, admitted: "There are several aspects of our flower festival that are a bit unusual, and there is quite a lot of humour."

The festival this year included a display of memorabilia including photographs signed and sent especially, from Bond film stars past and present such as Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, Robbie Coltrane and Dame Shirley Bassey. This was auctioned off after the festival's last day yesterday.

Guest of honour at the show was Norman Wanstall, who won the first Oscar of the James Bond film series for sound work on 1964's Goldfinger – and he had the Academy Award with him.

"We also managed to have a 1966 Aston Martin DB5 that was there most of the morning on Saturday," Mr Wilson said. "Pat Ward, our secretary, called a classic car club in Birmingham and the owner brought it over."

If the silver screen glamour was not unusual enough, the flower displays themselves were especially creative this year, he said, with 19 designs including Miss Moneypenny's Office, Casino Royale, Goldfinger and From Russia With Love.

"I did an exploding Q-branch dummy," Mr Wilson, a former scenic artist and props maker, said. "I used eight cola bottles, a boiler suit, a coat hanger, a polystyrene head, a pair of wellington boots, a pair of gardening gloves and a florist's stand. I also did You Only Live Twice, which is up by the altar," he said, a sly reference to a more spiritual dimension.