Society’s coffee morning

SOUTHPORT Chrysanthemum and Gardening Society is celebrating its 67th anniversary – and is still growing!

Their first coffee morning of the year will take place on Saturday April 8, at Lord Street West small hall between 10am-12.30pm.

They will have a craft table, and a special floral art table where Jenny Williams from Manchester will make a feature of manipulating foliage to incorporate into your arrangement.

John Wood will speak about Chrysanthemum growing and general gardening problems, Bob Scott will give you a late opportunity to buy Q4, if there is any left after the next meeting, Alan Foxall will be featuring sales of basket and container plants, and spring bulbs for Easter, and you will have the chance to enjoy cakes with a cup of tea or coffee.

The society’s speaker at last week’s March meeting was Jim Almond, from Shropshire.

Jim is a plants man and wildlife photographer, who showed some of his stunning pictures at the end of his talk on the life and garden of Margaret Owen.

A horticultural legend, Margaret gardened from ‘The Patch’, a one acre plot just outside Shrewsbury.

Here she created a stunning garden, holding four separate national collections of Nerines, Camassias, Veratrum and Dictamnus.

In addition to this, she also found the time to become one of the most knowledgeable snowdrop specialists in the country.