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"So what did you do today Rachael?", Me - "Well the amazing Aurerie and I taught an inspiring class of young teenagers, at the Priory School in Bury St Edmunds, how to make willow weaved 'Helter Skelter' climbing plant supports (Aurelie's original design, my name for them!) and then we planted up with either sweet peas or edible dwarf peas with the addition of a rainbow mix of trailing nasturtiums seeds. It's part of our gardening enterprise project this term and the product build towards a fundraising sale late May to buy much -needed gardening tools for the school. Sadly, we have a polytunnel but no gardening tools🥲 so I loan mine. When I introduced our sessions fun mission(s) and they were dauntingly looking at the climber prototype, at first the youngers were like "we can't do that!!" and I replied passionately "YES you can and we'll prove it!" and I knew they ALL would and amusingly for all 🤣they soon showed themselves more capable than their teachers!

SPRING IS IN FULL FLING @ Riduna Business Park Gardens in Melton, Woodbridge
It’s officially early - OUR bulbous beauties around the grounds are blooming a rainbow of colours, the perennial plants are thriving with fresh new green growth and our newly planted trees are already blossoming ready to bear fruit later this summer.
I would like to thank all those many businesses, employees and visitors that take the time to say to our team and I on our every visit to remark how the natural colour brings relief to their office working days and that our efforts evoke joy 💚💛
Image©: Rachael Venia Woodgate

Book yourself into one or both of our FREE upcoming workshops in the April half term, all ages welcome!!

Book your place here: https://shorturl.at/kls14

🔸Monday 8th April - 1.30 - 3.30pm
Health, Nutrition and Budgeting - This workshop will help you understand how you can make healthier food choices without breaking the bank and give you an opportunity to sample some healthy options.💰

🔸 Wednesday 10th April - 1.30 - 3.30pm
Healthy Easter Treats - This workshop will involve making a healthy Easter treat for you to take home as well as giving you some ideas on how you can make healthier alternatives to those sugary desserts 🍪

Southgate Community Centre West Suffolk Council
We Love Bury St Edmunds Suffolk County Council Hardwick Primary School Bury St Edmunds Town Council

🌱 Transform Spaces, Nurture Nature, and Enrich Lives with Greener Growth! 🌿

We're thrilled to share our journey at Greener Growth, where our heart beats for transforming neglected areas into vibrant, food-producing, and biodiversity-enhancing spaces. From schools to prisons, businesses to community groups, we're on a mission to create green havens that not only nourish the body but also heal the soul. 🍃

Our projects go beyond landscaping; they are about fostering connections, understanding, and respect for the natural world. With each garden we create or area we rejuvenate, we're sowing seeds of change that grow into forests of hope and corridors of biodiversity. 🌺

Whether you're a business looking to give back to the community, a school eager to educate your students about the importance of nature, or someone who wants to volunteer and make a tangible difference, Greener Growth offers a path for you. Let's join hands to make our communities greener, our planet healthier, and our futures brighter. 💚

👉 Find out more about our transformative projects and how you can be a part of this green revolution. Visit greenergrowth.co.uk today!

BOUNDARIES THAT BRING BEAUTY... How to build a dead hedge habitat haven!

Dead hedges provide essential shelter and nesting havens for birds, small mammals, insects and a natural looking barrier alternative to costly formal fencing that not only blends into the natural environment but enriches local biodiversity. They are a great way to recycle woody plant waste too! Here’s my simple guide to making your own:)

Step 1/ Measure length of boundary area requiring hedging It may be that you are filling gaps as we are at Riduna Park (see pix). Calculate how many fence posts you will need based on a max 1.5 metre spacing and allowing up to 50cm spacing between the parallel posts for filling. Top tip: Mark the post placement with pegs

Step 2/ Collect dead branches and woody prunings and trim into 2m sections, bundle in bark types/ colours if possible to enhance decorative layering and mix of materials for creatures to utilise

Step 3/ Using a post rammer and a small sharp arrow spade drive the sharp end of the fence posts at least a foot down into the ground and securely firm in around the base with your 'stompy' feet. Please ensure you are wearing sturdy protective boots

Step 4/ Layer deadwood horizontally between the fence posts and push down. As the seasons progress and plant materials decay with age you will need to occasionally top up

Step 5/ Enjoy the wildlife views and feel proud you are officially an eco-friendly wildlife gardener:)

Author: Rachael Venia Woodgate,
Specialist Horticulture Project Manager, Greener Growth CIC

Early Spring Rising @ Riduna Park bringing much needed budding colour to any grey office working days and evoking joy to all visitors💚 Bravo to the Riduna GG team for their kneeling efforts over the last year to bury bulbous treasure and perennial flower power that all can now enjoy throughout the year🌈 Images/ credit Rachael Venia Woodgate

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PLANT HERITAGE FRUIT FOR THE FUTURE!
Our advice, choose your childhood favourites that conjure sweet memories. Apples and pears trees are in YAY!… Watch this growing orchard space bear fruit despite communing amongst concrete! Anything is possible with some GG in your life!😻 Riduna Park

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HAPPY nurturing New Year from team GG Riduna Park

May the Greener Growth ground force be with you in 2024 like a wonderfull Hellebore! Wishing all future flourishment, from GG team Riduna Park photo: RV Woodgate/ Riduna gardens Project Manager/ designer

Did you know that we can paint too?!🎨
Get in touch if you feel like your business/community space could benefit from a mural like this.
One of our beautiful nature murals at Riverwalk School

Book yourself on to this year's wreath making workshop at Southgate Community Centre by clicking this link

https://t.ly/zzNr1 🌲❄️⛄🎄🎅🎁🤶

Hope to see you there!

There are certain plants as a hortic soul you self identify with and for me the pure joy of seeing amongst the damp undergrowth the autumn Crocuses is definitely one and also it seems it is for our dancing pollinator heroes - hoverflies 😻 Which I also identify with... You can identify them distinctly, as they may look like bees but only have 2 wings (not 4 like bees), hover at ground level and live underground in their nests whilst improving soil structure like me too.. Riduna Park