KEEP in touch with North East gardening and floral events through this column every Saturday. Today Joint event, Corbridge Gardening Society, Stocksfield Plants & Gardens Society and Wylam Gardeners’ Society, talk, Bordering on Insanity: Creating an All-year-Round Border, by Timothy Walker, director of Oxford Botanic Garden, Community Centre, Mountview Terrace, Stocksfield, 2.30pm, book on 01661 881245. Monday, March 1 Rosecarpe Horticultural Society, talk, Roses and Shrubs, by Eddie Wardrobe, Civic Centre, Gateshead, 7pm. Tuesday, March 2 Alnwick and District Flower Club, club supper, Embleton Hall, Longframlington, 7pm. Darlington Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society, talk, Dahlias, by Gordon Hodgson, Copper Beech public house, Neasham Road, 7.30pm. Wednesday, March 3 Longtown (Carlisle) Horticultural Society, talk, Garden Design, by Pam Harrington, Memorial Hall Community Centre, 7.30pm. Thursday, March 4 Stocksfield South of Tyne Flower Club, demonstration, by Amelia Forrester of Washington, Community Centre (SICA), 1.45pm. Durham Flower Club, demonstration, Elegance, by Margaret Earl, Sherburn Village Community Hall, 2pm. Northumberland Fuchsia Society, talk by George Cameron, St Matthew’s Church hall, West Road, Ponteland, 7.30pm. Woodlands Park (North Gosforth) Floral Art Club, demonstration, by Marion Hinchley, Daverson Hall, Elmwood Avenue, 7.45pm. Saturday-Sunday, March 6 and 7 Blaydon and District in Bloom, annual spring bulb show, floral art and children’s painting competition, Winlaton Centre, North Street, Sat 1.30-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm. Monday, March 8 Whickham Flower Club, talk, Maling China, by Margery Mitchell, Community Centre, 7.30pm. Hexham and District Flower Club, practical Easter cards, Torch Centre, Corbridge Road, 2pm. Alpine Garden Society – North East England Group, talk, at Cluny House, by John Mattingley, St Mary’s Hall, Thornhill Road, Ponteland, 7.30pm. Brampton and District Flower Club, demonstration, Going Dutch, by Kathleen Williams of Oldham, Village Hall, Newtown, 7.30pm. Tuesday, March 9 Chester-le-Street Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society, meeting, Relton Working Men’s Club, 7.30pm. Durham and Northumberland Fuchsia Society, Community Centre, Bowburn, 7.30pm. |
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