CROCUSES IN KIDDERMINSTER

Seven gardening enthusiasts from Husum arrived in Kidderminster on Friday, September 9 as guests of Kidderminster Horticultural Society, and immediately found themselves involved in a spot of very public gardening.

On their way from Birmingham Airport they stopped off at Broadwaters Park to assist in the planting of hundreds of crocus corms (yes, they are not strictly bulbs). The crocuses are of the same species as those that cover several acres of Husum’s Castle park, which are a major tourist attraction in the Spring every year and form a living backcloth to the town’s annual Krokusfest.

The planting at Broadwaters is the first stage of a plan by the Kidderminster-Husum Twinning Association, to introduce the purple crocuses to several areas of Kidderminster over the coming months and years. The Association is very grateful to a number of Kidderminster members of the County Council who have been able to secure financial backing for the project, to Wyre Forest District Council’s Parks staff for their co-operation, and to Alan Breen from Parks who brought his very shiny spade for the occasion.