People can try exotic foreign fruit and garden cocktails at an upcoming tasting event.

The Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural Society has invited food writer Mark Diacono to give a talk and tasting session on the subject of Unexpected Tastes: Fruits.

It will take place at Uplyme Village Hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday, October 23. 

The talk will explore forgotten fruit flavours and exotic foreign fruit which people can grow in their gardens as a result of the changing climate.

Visitors will also have the opportunity to taste a garden cocktail. 

Mark Diacono is a writer, cook, gardener and photographer who writes regularly for national newspapers. His books A Year at Otter Farm and A Taste of the Unexpected, both won Food Book of the Year in 2014 and 2011 respectively. 

Doors for the event open at 7pm where refreshments will be available.

Entry is free for members and £3 for non-members.