Gardening

Online festival for green fingers with £300 worth of prizes 0
- Arts, Environment, Gardening, News
- 16th June 2020
Garden festivals and flower shows may have been cancelled left right and centre, but Tolworth is blazing a trail with its very own online show. The Tolworth Garden Festival, organised by The Community Brain, celebrates all that is best (and oddest!) in growing – with a chance to win £300 worth of prizes! “Over the
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Event ideas sought for Farm of Futures community project 0
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 13th June 2020
Your ideas are needed for a sustainable community hub at Tolworth Main Allotments off King Charles Road. They will form a key part in how The Farm of Futures project is taken forward. “We really want to hear your ideas for activities and events which the farm could host, and are also keen to hear from people
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Plants stolen from pocket park 0
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 8th June 2020
Thieves scaled a fence and stole these newly-planted geraniums (pictured) and begonias from a little piece of heaven by the Thames. Julian Meers, chair of the Queens Promenade Friends, was dismayed to find that the pocket park opposite Raven’s Ait had been ransacked. “The park has been successfully created over the last year by volunteers
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Watching B-movies in lockdown 0
- Environment, Gardening
- 31st May 2020
There’s a buzz in the garden in Surbiton this weekend as visiting bumblebees queue up to enjoy our flowering bottlebrush plant. When the callistemon is blooming and the sun is shining, the pollen collectors are out in force… often hanging upside-down on the flower heads – presumably because the species originated in Australia. No lockdown
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Squires garden centre to reopen 0
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 14th May 2020
Disappointed gardeners who turned up at Squires in Long Ditton yesterday (Wednesday) expecting staff to be welcoming them with open arms (at a safe distance of course) will be pleased to hear the garden centre in Woodstock Lane North will reopen tomorrow (Friday) from 11am. The government gave permission for garden centres in England to
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Florist still delivers joy in lockdown 0
- Arts, Gardening, News
- 25th April 2020
Here’s something to gladden the heart. A bouquet from Surbiton’s Holly & The Ivy florist. Holly McLoughlin is still busy creating beautiful bouquets in her Hook Road shop to deliver to KT, TW and GU postcodes. “We are still very much open for contactless deliveries and will be delivering flowers on Tuesdays, Fridays and some
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