Flower club celebrates 50th anniversary

Campbeltown Flower Club members celebrated the group’s 50th anniversary at Glenbarr Garden Centre.

The club was founded by Iona MacNeill and taken over by Bill Sayers after some time. The club has had many different demonstrations from the Scottish Association of Floral Art Societies’ demonstrators and talented flower arrangers, interspersed with workshops.

‘Between lockdowns, we were able to meet up in the Kirk Street Hall,’ said a group spokesperson, ‘and we have a number of new members as well as folk that have been in the club for most of its 50 years. At present, we bring an arrangement that we make up at home, based on a given theme, and work on another themed arrangement at the club.’

Anyone interesting in joining the club is welcome to attend its next meeting, on Wednesday June 8, in the Kirk Street Hall at 7.30pm.

‘We will then break for the summer and meet again in September,’ said the spokesperson.

Campbeltown Flower Club members raise a glass in celebration of the group’s golden anniversary. They are, from left: Judy Orr, Alyson Grant, Liz Kennedy, Pauline Simson, Isabel Cook, Morag Johnston, Moira Menzies, Margaret McKendrick and Jane Miller.

A special cake was made to mark the club’s 50th anniversary.