Fire rages at garden centre
- Environment, Gardening, News
- 17th July 2020
It was the day the bus museum exhibits broke free! With Covid preventing the people attending the annual open day at the London Bus Museum in Brooklands, the old buses decided to take matters into their own hands and return to the people. Routemasters and other grand dames from the golden era of the 40s,
READ MORETolworth market is back tomorrow (Sunday)! The First in Tolworth market, from 11am to 3pm in the sliproad off Tolworth Broadway opposite Our Lady Immaculate Church, will be a food-and-drink-only affair this time, but the organisers hope to welcome back its arts and crafters in May (Covid guidelines permitting). There is plenty of room for
READ MOREA coronavirus test is coming to a street near you! Kingston council has new two new Covid-19 testing buses which will be touring the borough. Tomorrow (Friday) one will be stopping outside Tolworth Infant and Nursery School in School Lane off Red Lion Road, while the other will be outside the Hook Centre off Elm
READ MOREKeen to swap plants and seeds, share gardening tips, and go on outings to stunning gardens? Then why not join a Surbiton-based gardening group? Membership of the English Gardening Club is free and there’s an active WhatsApp group where suggestions for visits to National Garden Scheme, Open Gardens or RHS venues and garden centres are
READ MOREWhat a brief, glorious flourish! Surbiton’s magnolia trees bloomed in the last days of March, hit their peak on March 30… yet within days prompted shouts of: ‘Mind where you put your feet, Tarquin, those slimy petals make the pavements slippery.’ This stunning specimen is on the Long Ditton/Surbiton boundary, where Balaclava Road, St Mary’s
READ MOREWhere is that white rabbit disappearing off to? Looks like he is in a terrible hurry. He seems to have got stuck in a door-shaped rabbit hole which has appeared in Kings Road, Long Ditton, over the Easter holidays. Just below him, and standing sentinel either side of the bunny-themed door mat, are two March
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