Fire rages at garden centre
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
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Bulbs push onwards and upwards despite the snow and biting wind0
Is it spring yet? These bulbs, in a planter along St Mary’s Road, Long Ditton, are pressing onwards and upwards despite the remnants of the snow. Looking forward to a cheery display in a few weeks time!
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Brighten your front door with a made-to-order Christmas wreath0
Freelance florist Jo Power is making Christmas wreaths to order from her Cleaveland Road, Surbiton, home. Jo, who has created displays for numerous weddings and events over the past 12 years, including Wimbledon, Hampton Court Palace, and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, as well as providing displays for homes, is making festive wreaths to brighten the
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Free seeds for a painted pebble0
Paint a pebble to look like a vegetable and get free seeds at Squires. The garden centre in Woodstock Lane North, Long Ditton, is asking children under 16 to pick up a free pebble from its information desk, or use one of their own, then paint it at home to look like their favourite (or not
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Fire rages at garden centre1
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
Fire swept through a Long Ditton garden centre overnight, destroying several buildings and leaving the main office as a charred ruin. Flames were spotted rising behind a line of tall conifers at one edge of Hill Park Roses & Plant Centre just before midnight by the intersection of the A3 slip road and Woodstock Lane
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Brain hits the jackpot!0
- Arts, Environment, Food, Gardening, News
- 12th July 2020
Congratulations to the group which organises wacky events such as Surbiton Ski Sunday, and regeneration initiatives including Tolworth’s food and arts and crafts market. It has hit the jackpot in the latest batch of Arts Council grants. The Community Brain has been given £28,843 to help it weather the coronavirus crisis. Although the pandemic has
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Shhhh! Let’s hear it for the barrier method0
- Gardening
- 19th June 2020
Garden designers are well versed in problem solving, coming up with creative solutions for boggy gardens, dry gardens, too much shade, too much sun, and so on. But what can be done about a noisy garden? In the streets of Surbiton, we have to deal with construction work, sirens, the constant hum of traffic and,
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Squires garden centre to reopen
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 14th May 2020
Tolworth's Mr Green Fingers
- Gardening, History, Notable Surbitonians
- 1st December 2018
Brain hits the jackpot!
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Tolworth's Mr Green Fingers
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- 1st December 2018
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