People living in the Driffield area whose homes and gardens were flooded during the summer will be able to visit a plant bank to pick up new flowers and shrubs for their gardens.

Many homes in Driffield, Hutton Cranswick, Nafferton, Gembling and Wansford were hit by the June deluge and organiser of the plant bank, Angela Train, said she wanted to help because insurance companies were not paying out to help people restore their damaged gardens.

Mrs Train, of Exchange Street, Driffield, is appealing for gardeners to take cuttings of their plants and save them for the bank, which is being planned as part of Churches Together Hope 2008 initiative, for which Mrs Train is the co-ordinator in the Driffield area.

She said: “We are collecting plants for the plant bank to help flood victims so they can replant their gardens in the spring. Insurance firms cover houses but not necessarily the gardens.”

She is also appealing for a piece of land on which to keep the plant bank but will, in the meantime, find space in her own garden for the project.

Mrs Train explained the Churches Together initiative were also planning on working with Driffield in Bloom later on this year to revamp a piece of unused land in the town.

Churches Together are holding the first of five craft workshop sessions on Thursday January 10 at the Methodist Church in Driffield from 7.30pm until 9pm.



r For more information contact Angela Train on (01377) 252230.