KEEP in touch with North-East gardening and floral events through this column every Saturday. Sunday, January 27 Durham Organic Gardeners’ Association, Potato Day, Nature’s World, Middlesbrough, 10am-2pm. Monday, January 28 Northumberland and Durham Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society, talk, Exhibition Dahlias, Gosforth Hotel, High Street, Gosforth, 7.30pm. Tuesday, January 29 St Nicholas Flower Fellowship, talk, Woodbine Willie, by head verger James Adams, Newcastle Cathedral, 10am. North-East of England Orchid Society, talk, Weird and Smelly: Unusual Orchids, by Laurence Hobbs, Community Centre, Bowburn, 7.15pm. Thursday, January 31 North Tyne Flower Club, AGM and practical, St Valentine’s Day, Village Hall, Falstone, 1.30pm. Saturday, February 2 Durham Organic Gardeners’ Association, Potato Day, Bowburn Community Centre, 10am-3pm. Monday, February 4 Rosecarpe Horticultural Society, talk, Alpines, by Alan Furness, Civic Centre, Gateshead, 7pm-9pm. Tuesday, February 5 Whitley Bay Flower Club, demonstration, St John’s Church Hall, Ilfracombe Gardens, 2pm. Darlington Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society, AGM, Copper Beech public house, Neasham Road, 7.30pm. Wednesday, February 6 Longtown Horticultural Society, talk, Flowers of Corsica and Madeira, by John Treeby, Lochinvar Further Education Centre, 7.30pm. Thursday, February 7 Durham Flower Club, AGM and talk by M. Mitchell, demonstration, North Road Methodist Church Hall, Durham, 2pm. Stocksfield South of Tyne Flower Club, demonstration, From Bangle Blondie to Lady Slaley, by Gwen Foster of Slaley, Community Centre (SICA),1.45pm. Northumberland Fuchsia Society, plant workshop with help from experienced members, St Matthew’s Church Hall, West Road, Ponteland, 7.30pm. Woodlands Park (North Gosforth) Floral Art Club, AGM and talk, China, by Jean Gibbon, Daverson Hall, Elmwood Avenue, 7.45pm. Friday, February 8 Alnwick Garden, talk, Medical Murderers: The Poison Garden, by John Robertson, Visitor Centre, 2pm-3pm. |