KEEP in touch with North East gardening and floral events through this column every Saturday. 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. Great North Carnation Society, plant sale and talk, All Things Dianthus, by P. Booker and B. Gamble, Bridges Room, Civic Centre, Gateshead, 7pm. Wallsend Floral Arts Club, demonstration, by Ann Evans, Burnside Enterprise College, 7pm. Morpeth and District Gardening Club, talk, The Oliver Ford Garden, by Bob Tridgett, St James’s Community Centre, Wellway, 7.30pm. Saturday, March 27 Alpine Garden Society – North East England Group, plant sale and spring show, Memorial Hall, Ponteland (sale 10.30am, show noon-4pm). Sunday, March 28 National Gardens Scheme, garden open at Moorbank Botanic Garden, Claremont Road, Newcastle, 2-5pm. Monday, March 29 Northumberland and Durham Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society, talk, Late Chrysanthemums, by John Peace of Easington, Northumberland Piper, Fawdon Close, Gosforth, 7.30pm. Tuesday, March 30 St Nicholas Flower Fellowship, A Meditation for Holy Week, with Archdeacon Geoff Miller, Newcastle Cathedral, 10am. North East of England Orchid Society, talk, Pleiones, by Stuart Jagger, Community Centre, Bowburn, 7.15pm. Thursday, April 1 Durham Flower Club, demonstration, Spring is in the Air, by Wendy Smith, Sherburn Village Community Hall, 2pm. Northumberland Fuchsia Society, talk, Tender Perennials, by Michael Robbie, St Matthew’s Church Hall, West Road, Ponteland, 7.30pm. |