Allotments take centre stage at Flower Show
STAFF worked through the night to get Southport Flower Show ready for the thousands of people bound for the four-day festival.
All nine of the ground crew team have dragged exhibitors’ wagons out of boggy fields, erected marquees and tended to every detail to ensure everything is ready to go when Coleen Nolan gets the show under way at 10am today.
The show’s chief exec- utive, David Jackson, said: “Without the efforts of the ground crew and Keith Porter, the park manager, the show might not go ahead.”
For Mr Porter, this will be the 21st year that he has worked on the show where his father used to exhibit.
He will be in charge of making this the “greenest” show of all time. Virtually every scrap of waste from bark chippings through to food slops will be recycled this year.
The show is this year majoring on allotments, which have become hot property over the last 12 months.
“Whether it is Jamie Oliver or Chris Evans, with his shows from his shed, or that people just want to get back in contact with their food again, allotments have become almost sexy,” said Mr Jackson. “There’s been an explosion of interest.”
