Category: Gardens
An offer you can’t refuse Issue 5 – 16/10/12
Issue: An offer you can’t refuse Issue 5 – 16/10/12
Brunswick in Bloom
Brighton & Hove City in Bloom is a campaign where communities, residents and businesses can work together to improve the environment of the city and surrounding communities to make it a greener, cleaner and more attractive place to live, work and visit.
Hi-de-Hi! Issue 8 – 30/12/12
Happy New Year, Composters ….and Hi-de-hi, if you can remember that far back.
Calling all Garden Owners
The Garden Gadabout sees over 60 private gardens and community spaces in Brighton & Hove and the surrounding areas, open to the public on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June, Saturday 28
Composting News Issue 16 – 11/11/13
Just a short note this time, counting from north to south: Box 1 is now full and closed. Box 2 is ‘maturing’ – the contents are soaking wet Box 3 has been emptied and is now ‘active’ Box 4 contains the contents of Box 3 plus tools, gloves and plastic I am off site for…
Maintenance of the gardens
As Council budgets become tighter and resources strain to keep up standards, unfortunately maintenance of our public gardens is not of the highest priority. A senior Council official recently stated that if budget cuts continue to be necessary at the present rate, there may be little or nothing left for public parks and gardens by…
Brunswick in Bloom wins again
Brunswick Town has once again won a Silver Gilt award for South and South East in Bloom. Against a background of dimishing resources for our Council run public gardens this is quite an achievement. Thanks go to our gardener of many years, Graham, who managed to have the gardens looking as good as possible under…
Dog controls in the gardens
Following a number of complaints from residents about the large numbers of dogs congregating in particularly Adelaide Crescent gardens, and a sometimes intimidating group of dog owners there, we asked the Council for a statement about the current controls, given that Brunswick Square has a ban on dogs. This was the response we received from…
Some Sunny Day! Composting News Issue 14
Indian Summer is here – it’s official! We have a new team monitoring in September – Victoria and Andrew. Here is the current position: ‘active’ box No 2 has been filling up, so box 3, about 3/4 full of mature compost, was emptied this morning into three heavy duty black plastic bags. Box 3 is…
