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All month, Hua Takhe Old Market gets the full floral treatment. The old riverside neighbourhood in Lat Krabang, usually runs on canal breezes and afternoon quiet, throws its shophouse doors open for Rakdok Floral Weeks 2026, a flower exhibition back for another go under the theme 'Flower to Spread Smiles'. Come down, take a slow amble through the lanes and let this lovely, slightly time-warped pocket of the city wrap itself around you for an afternoon.
The event first blooms in 2020 as a plain flower-arranging show. This year it grows up. What you once simply looked at now asks you to come closer, to touch, to linger among the works and the weathered timber walls that hold them. Artists and locals make it together, these are the stories of Hua Takhe, told fresh.
The vision belongs to Chayawas 'Joe' Panjaphakdi, florist and founder of Rakdok, who reckons a flower has no business sitting prettily in a vase and calling it a day. It can belong to a place, a person, an ordinary Tuesday morning. So he scatters blooms across the market like punctuation, nudging people back to a corner of town that earns the visit.
20 installations wait for you. 11 come from competition entrants, eight from the Rakdok team and one from a visually impaired artist, each with its own tale. Some stop you in your tracks. Some make you grin. Some might have you falling for the place all over again.
There are workshops and craft sessions too, the warm hands-on sort.
Rakdok Floral Weeks 2026 runs at Hua Takhe Old Market, Lat Krabang, from July 4-August 2, 10am-6pm. It's free.