Every part you have to know

The Southport Flower Show opens later with floral shows, sights and household leisure.

Visitors over the following 4 days can take pleasure in award-winning present gardens, a purchasing village, cookery demonstrations and stay performances.

There may even be a number of superstar appearances.

If you’re planning to attend, here is all the pieces you have to know.

The annual four-day occasion takes place on the city’s Victoria Park.

Gates open to the general public at 10:00 BST every day, with the present closing at 18:00. There can be an earlier end of 17:00 on Sunday.

Victoria Park has huge walkways and a stage floor so is accessible to these with prams and mobility points.

Organisers say well-behaved canine on leads are allowed on web site.

This yr the present’s theme focuses on well being and wellbeing, highlighting the advantages of flowers and gardening and the constructive affect they’ve on each day life.

Expect spectacular award-winning present gardens, a grand floral marquee, newbie grower and plant society exhibitors, floral artwork and raised mattress shows, a bees and honey marquee, in addition to shows from native faculties and charities.

There may even be extra household sights this yr, together with canine show groups, birds of prey and horse reveals.

Organisers promise the 35-acre park can be “a real hive of activity”.

Alpacas are visiting for the primary time, whereas a brand new kids’s path consists of insights into conservation, a scarecrow pageant, yoga, a doodle wall and the chance to study tennis abilities.

Keep your eyes out for Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher, singer Toyah Willcox, Strictly Come Dancing winner Hamza Yassin, Bake Off’s Cherish Finden, Gladiator Steel and CBeebies entertainer Justin Fletcher.

Gardening consultants embody ITV’s Love Your Garden’s David Domoney, Nick Bailey, from BBC Gardeners’ World, Carole Baxter and George Anderson, from BBC’s Beechgrove Garden, and gardening gurus Martin and Jill Fish.

Cookery visitors embody ITV’s This Morning chef Phil Vickery, Cherish Finden from Bake Off: The Professionals, TV character and chef Rosemary Shrager, and Great British Bake Off Winner Nancy Birtwhistle.

Visitors travelling to the present by prepare can purchase discounted tickets from any Merseyrail ticket workplace.

A shuttle bus from Southport railway station will run to the park each quarter-hour at a further value.

Parking is out there at Princes Park (inside strolling distance), and at Birkdale Common Park and Ride, with buses operating to and from the showground each quarter-hour.

A spread of bus and coach companies serve Southport.

If you’re biking to the present there are bike parking services on the close by Eco Centre.

The 2025 gate worth is £30.

If you arrive after 15:00 on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, the doorway price drops to £20.

Children underneath 16 are admitted freed from cost with a paying grownup.

There are additionally group reductions and native resident reductions obtainable. Full particulars could be discovered on the Southport Flower Show web site.