EIGHTY gardeners with special needs showed off their green-fingered talents at the first West Midlands Flower Show in Kidderminster.

The event at The Elms - a social education centre linked to Stourbridge College - was organised by the national gardening charity Thrive.

It gave the public the chance to see the work being carried out at Midlands projects working with people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and physical disabilities.

Wyre Forest MP Dr Richard Taylor opened the event, which next year will take place at the Greenfingers horticultural project in Stourport.

Winners from the Kidderminster and Stourport centres included: Martyn Ponter, Boyce Wheal, Andy Raymond, Robert Pedon, Susan Drake, Peter Smith and Robert Sparke.