MORE than a 1,000 ceramic flowers created at an Oldbury centre took pride of place at a popular garden show.

The Royal Horticultural Society’s Malvern Spring Festival featured the Creative Arts’ Ceramic Garden at this year’s festival, which took place from May 11 to 14.

It featured a display of 1,200 hand-made ceramic flowers and 500 mini beasts, made as part of the Sandwell arts project.

Creative Arts, which provides day opportunities for people with disabilities, set up the project last year with arts organisation Creative Black Country.

The project has already won a top award from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in Bloom Award for the It’s Your Neighbourhood category. The project got a Level 3 award.

Sandwell’s Deputy Mayor Councillor Susan Downing joined artists from Creative Arts at the show on to see the garden on display.