Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association

Latest information on Open Gardens Day North Burlingham & activities of BCGA. Community Group. Burlingham Woodland Walks. A47 Dualling - local access lobbyists.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Burlingham Open Gardens 2024: Sunday 9th Jun, 10 til 4, main entry NR13 4TA. £5 all day, under 16’s free. 20+ participating gardens. Some Blue Badge parking in The Green, NR13 4SZ. Live music, BBQ, Teas, cakes. Plant Sales at St Andrews. @EDP24 @BBCLookEast

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Ignoring for the moment the entire hamlet of Burlingham Green has been without phone or b/b for 14 days due to @BT_Openreach reluctance to shin up a pole, this latest is a beauty. The whole system could fail?

[Eastern Daily Press @EDP24]

Concerns thousands of older and vulnerable Norfolk people could be put at risk because telephone landlines are to be axed have been raised in Parliament. https://t.co/vu6MiExLew 👇 Full story

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

@Nikkirthomas @NorfolkCC For the sake of clarity @NorfolkCC @Openreach that’s the whole community of Burlingham Green. And it was closed while the tree was removed - then opened again! @JeromeMayhew @EDP24 @BBCLookEast

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Noticed this in the ’no mow’ area - anyone know what it is?

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

@FlowerdewBob Noted, thank you. I may venture some hideously expensive nematode treatment (there’s a lot of box) this year, but fear for it, long term.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Aaaargh… a visitor says my boxhedges have boxmoth attack - found 2 caterpillars. Hedges are 90cm high, 50 thick. Don’t like spray generally, could any spray could effectively penetrate that to get to the problem? Cutback hard before? @FlowerdewBob

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

It’s that time of year!
Join us via St Andrew’s Main Road NR134TA for gardens and free parking, or The Green NR134SZ for limited Blue Badge parking and more gardens. @mikeliggins @edp24 #bbclookeast #garden #gardening #opengardens

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Norfolk Frost Alert! What’s become the annual ‘chapeau’ to @FlowerdewBob for the tip: peach snug behind its poly screen to protect the early blossom.

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

How many innocent #animals risk their lives to cross this stretch of road to reach further habitat on the other side on a daily basis? A lot more forethought and planning could have ensured a safer passage for #wildlife👇#WildlifeBridges

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

During a 4 hour drive through #France, I saw 8 bridges built specifically for #wildlife, to enable a safe passage from one habitat to another. The UK is so far behind in terms of animal road safety, it’s unreal. Not one dead animal/bird seen. Why can’t all new roads have these?

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

£65,738 -MP salary in 2010
£86,584 -MP salary in 2023

If rail, teachers, nurses, firemen, ambulance staff, bus drivers, had the same rate of increase, there would be no strikes.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

@Rhod_Sharp @bbcpaddy @BBCRadio4 After a chance encounter with your ‘whales and lobsters’ night, rang the desk at #5Live and begged them to commission more of that - and you. Up all night dreary without you.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

@WisePaul65 @allotment9A Once watched a woman in Portugal push a needle and thread through the stems of chillies to make a ‘necklace’. Hung up in the kitchen back home, they transitioned from fresh to dried easily - and lasted 18 months usable.

[Blackthorn Arable Ltd @Blackthorncox]

If that wasn’t bad enough we also had sprouted Maris Piper at the same store from Israel priced at £2,000 per tonne. This is not any old disgrace this is an M&S disgrace. #farming #potatoes #ukfood #ripoffbritain

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

@tiredpsych Not flushing the loo every time it’s used. Not to save water - though of course it does - but to ‘save’ the septic tank. Many old tanks no longer function properly and need emptying from time to time.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Approach grafted as per @FlowerdewBob the best of the poor growth now clasped to the bosom of a foster parent. I know it looks like we're above the graft union - close inspection of the ‘plum’ on a St Julien stock shows it’s likely all rootstock. Now we wait.

[Burlingham Cottage Gardeners Association @burlinghamopen]

Sentimental: this sad, fast-fading attempt to graft a vintage peach is on its way out after 6 years. Bud grafts taken earlier this year failed - any suggestions how to use remaining live wood to attempt resurrection? The pit from 1 peach produced is in compost. @FlowerdewBob ?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Liz Truss’s £235m cut to Environment Agency ‘doubled sewage discharge’."

And it's looking likely that she also ordered Defra officials to go to Brussels and kill off the Water Framework Directive.

https://t.co/AjD3nAPxhz

[4th July - Tory wipe Out @snb19692]

The same Marco Longhi that stands up in Parliament to berate & ridicule me! Shit sticks ya know! All over our coastlines & waterways. #TurdReich