“Beneath an October sky, North Norfolk glows, where the marsh whispers of summer, and the wind softly blows...”

S.W.A.M.P. Autumn evening session October 19th 2026

Our S.W.A.M.P. team returned to Morston Pond once again to continue to clear as much Crassula from the pond bed while it was still remarkably dry.

Care and attention is sometimes needed to root out the delicate and easily breakable stems from between the flint

We've purchased more green bags to help with Crassula collection, such has been our success rate this summer

We'd once again arranged with Charlie to help us remove our filled bags, so it was imperative to bag up as much dried Crassula as we could and get them ready at the edge of the pond site, ready for his collection.

More Crassula bags ...

The small, green garden bags get put into large builder's bags, ready to be hoiked onto Charlie's JCB

hoiking ...

hoiked ...

"and away!" (c) Whitehouse & Mortimer

and to 'The Pit!'

This way!

The white builder's bags are lowered safely at the edge of the pit. The smaller green bags are then emptied out, with just the plant and dried mud thrown into the pit. The green bags are then flattened and stored back into the larger white bags, then dragged back to the pond! Yes, to answer your question, dear reader, it is hard work!!

We can't thank Charlie enough for his help but also the team as a whole - it really does take teamwork, a spirit of community and friendship to continue to address the problem of Crassula infecting Morston Pond. We are progressing and hopefully, through the documenting of our activities over the last 4 years you will see how much the pond and it's environment have improved for everyone.

We will continue to work on the pond in the next month or so, weather depending, before we turn our attention to the surrounding habitat over the winter.

We now just wait for the rains for the pond to fill up again ....

Autumn '26