A packed hall and plenty of ‘oohs’ for cottage‑garden alchemy
Geoff Fisher Barely a spare seat in the town hall for Andrew Sankey’s talk on making a cottage garden.
Up the Garden Path
Let it grow: nature always fills the gaps
Left to its own devices, ground soon fills with growing things.
Spring surprises: honesty, Echinacea and one determined pear tree
This week’s Reepham & District Gardening Club AGM was swift and amusing as ever.
From tiny pools to teeming habitats
Any size pond will enhance and bring extensive and varied wildlife to your garden.
My compost bin: not quite the Australian hotshot
Remember that just about everything is biodegradable but sometimes you have to wait thousands of years.
Keep weeds at bay without using harsh chemicals
Any insecticide you apply will kill its target along with virtually anything else in the vicinity, including natural predators
Seeds of surprise sprout at Christmas gathering
At the Reepham & District Gardening Club Christmas party we remembered some of the most memorable speakers this year.
The answer to farming problems
The productivity that can be obtained from smallholdings is phenomenally more than that from farming.
Wonderful Wally wows with watery wildlife
It was Wally Webb who came to entertain a large audience at the Reepham & District Gardening Club this week.
New nature reserve highlights biodiversity and history
Matt Wickens described the newly created Sweet Briar Marshes reserve at September's meeting of the Reepham & District Gardening Club.