gardens

Gardening club grows new shoots 1
- Gardening, News
- 7th April 2021
Keen 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
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Waste not, want not – Abundance will harvest your unwanted fruit 0
- Food, News
- 16th September 2020
If you hate waste, call Abundance, a Surbiton project aimed at harvesting and redistributing gluts of fruit from gardens, allotments and street trees, saving it from being thrown away. Last year, 1.3 tons of fresh organic fruit was harvested in and around Surbiton, with this year’s target being to better that. Toni Izard needs volunteers able to
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Shhhh! Let’s hear it for the barrier method 0
- 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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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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Tidying the gardens 0
- News
- 17th January 2020
Bushes were being pruned back and leaves were being corralled at Claremont Gardens yesterday (Thursday). A team from Kingston council’s ground maintenance contractor idverde was hard at work in the muddy and puddle-filled gardens off Claremont Road, Surbiton.
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