In a very exciting first, Blas y Tir has featured in a Guinness World Record.

Each year, in celebration of St Davids Day the wonderful team at Guinness World Records team up with S4C to set new fun and ambitious Welsh records.

This year’s attempts lived up to expectations of being the work of creative masterminds, and we were privileged to be a part of the new Guinness World Record for “the most flowers on a dress”.

The brilliantly talented RuPauls Drag Race UK star, Marmalade (@thatsmarmalade), took on the attempt using Blas y Tir Welsh daffodils, grown and hand-picked by our teams in the heart of Pembrokeshire.

Marmalade more than doubled the minimum stems needed to win the record (740), and smashed it with an impressive 1,862 real Welsh flowers attached to her dress. The dress may not win awards for being comfy, but it looked absolutely incredible.

We loved every minute of supporting this attempt, from counting out the 2,000 individual stems to brainstorming how they might attach and how we keep the wonderful blooms fresh for the big day!

Huge thanks to Marmalade and team, for letting us to be a part of this exciting showstopper creation.

The record attempt itself took please at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in the Great Glasshouse, where film crews captured the moments of magic ready for S4C to broadcast very soon.

We also got to watch three other record attempts on the day…

Most cupcakes iced in three minutes – Michelle Evans-Fecci

Great British Bake Off contestant, Michelle Evans-Fecci (@bakesbymichelle), put her icing skills to the test to ice as many cupcakes as humanly possible in just three minutes. She had to beat 35 to claim the title and iced an impressive 66. Although the record was about speed, we can also vouch that they tasted amazing too!

Most twirls in relay in one hour (team) – Arts Care Gofal Celf

46 participants spent an hour dancing their troubles away by attempting to beat the record for the most continuous relay twirls by a group. Showing us how to get our groove on were members of Arts Care Gofal Celf, a charitable arts organization promoting inclusive practice of high-quality community dance. They put their ‘spin’ on the previous record of 250, setting an impressive new total of 921 twirls.

Fastest time to type Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, using one finger – Ellyn Baker

Possibly also a contender for the longest world record title too?! This one saw people attempt to type the longest Welsh place name, without any errors, using just one finger. It got quite competitive, but victory went to Ellyn Baker, from the Botanical Gardens, who managed it in a speedy 15.33 seconds.

Huge congrats to the other record winners from the St Davids Day attempts, which took place across the country:

• Sam & Sue Taylor – Fastest time to pill a narrow-gauge steam train 20m: 40.53 seconds
• Eric McGill – Most ankle drops to stand on a swinging trapeze in one minute: 11
• Grace and Clementine Tonkin – Longest duration suspended foot to foot trapeze hold: 2 mins 30 seconds

Guinness World Records Cymru 2025 will air on S4C in March. Keep an eye on our socials for more updates and behind the scenes.