Flower power

Sep 19 2008 by Michael Green, Chester Chronicle

FLOWER Power Fairs returns to Gawsworth Hall on September 21 bringing a kaleidoscope of colour, shapes and sizes of weird, wonderful, quirky and prickly plants to the old Tudor Hall.

If you’re looking for some winter colour in your garden, or perhaps thinking of re-designing your herbaceous border for early flowering next spring, then a visit to Gawsworth Hall, nestling in its historic gardens and grounds, near Macclesfield is well worth a visit.

Visitors can visit more than 15 nurseries and garden accessory stands offering top quality, realistically prized plants.

The fair brings together many award-winning Northern nurseries from the big flower shows including Harrogate, RHS Malvern and Tatton Park, BBC’s Gardeners World and the Great Yorkshire Show.

There will be a huge diversity of plants on sale too from the rare and unusual, to the colourful and flamboyant; many not readily available at retail outlets.

The choice of plants on sale range from hardy orchids to herbaceous perennials, alpines and specialist foliage plants and shrubs to bonsai, autumn flowering bulbs, a collection of cacti and even some magnificent exotics including banana trees.

The gardens, grounds and fair are open from 10am to 4pm and admission is £2.50; under 14s free.