KEEP in touch with North East gardening and floral events through this column every Saturday. Tuesday, March 16 Ponteland Floral Art Club, AGM and talk, Come Let Me Spin You a Yarn, by Philida Irving, Memorial Hall, 7pm. Cleadon Flower Arrangement Society, demonstration, Spring is in the Air, by Wendy Smith of Durham, Church Hall, 7.30pm. Stocksfield Plants and Gardens Society, talk, Vegetable-growing in Small Gardens, by Sue Hicks, Community Centre, Mountview Terrace, 7.30pm. Sunderland Floral Art Club, demonstration, My Friends and I, by Margaret Oakes of Blaydon-on-Tyne, The Studio, Royalty Theatre, 2pm. Wednesday, March 17 Gateshead Floral Art Club, demonstration, Telemania, by Zena Stone of Manchester, Civic Centre, 6.45pm. Brunton Park Floral Art Club, demonstration, Nature’s Palette, by Wendy Smith, St Aidan’s Community Centre, 7.30pm. Thursday, March 18 Corbridge Gardening Society, AGM and talk, Making a Woodland Garden, by Jane Torday, Parish Hall, St Helen’s Street, 7.30pm. Cramlington Floral Art Club, spring competition, Community Centre, 7.30pm. Warkworth and District Flower Club, workshop, with Pauline Lund, Memorial Hall, 7.30pm. Wylam Gardeners’ Society, talk, Plants of the Mountains of Southern Greece, by Prof John Richards, Centenary Room, Wylam Institute, Church Road, 8pm. Friday, March 19 Berwick and District Floral Art Club, demonstration, I’ve Got Rhythm, by Margaret Campbell of Galashiels, St Aidan’s Hall, Church Street, 7pm. Monday, March 22 Tynemouth Flower Club, demonstration, Memories, by Pamella Alexander, Holy Saviour’s Parish Hall, Manor Road, 7pm. Tuesday, March 23 North East of England Orchid Society, talk, Plieiones, by Stuart Jagger, Community Centre, Bowburn, 7.15pm. Wednesday, March 24 Lanchester and District Flower Club, demonstration, Black Beauties, by Pam Greenhill of Ryton, Community Centre, 2pm. Cheviot Valleys Flower Club, demonstration, Three of a Kind, by Christine Ogle, Memorial Hall, Whittingham, 7.30pm. Morpeth Flower Club, demonstration, Hello Spring, by Anne Codd, St James Centre, 7.30pm. Thursday, March 25 North Tyne Flower Club, practical, Good Morning Spring, Village Hall, Falstone, 1.30pm. by Bob Tridgett, St James’s Community Centre, Wellway, 7.30pm. |