Over 600 visitors attended the Newburgh Priory Summer Plant Fair on Bank Holiday Monday and left laden with high quality plants. As I am sure you know, we Yorkshire folk are canny with our money, but all said how delighted they were with the quality of the plants, the prices and the friendliness and knowledge of the plantspeople. Attending these small plant fairs gives you a more personal experience with purchasing your plants, and you are guaranteed good, well established plants with many new, unusual or quirky plants. We had a vast range of plants on sale from specialist ferns and alpines to exotic banana plants and hot, hot chilli peppers!

The next fair will be at Gawsworth Hall, Macclesfield on Sunday 21 September where there will be a good selection of plants on sale from autumn and winter flowering plants, shrubs and bulbs to herbaceous perennials, wonderful cacti and culinary herbs.

The last Flower Power Fair will be at Duncombe Park, Helmsley, N Yorkshire on Sunday 28 September. Both fairs open from 10am-4pm and I do hope that you will come along and see what wonderful plants are for sale.

I am finalising dates and venues for the Flower Power 2009 fairs. If you would like to be kept informed of these, please register your interest on my contact page and I will include you in my email newsletter.