In pictures: BBC Dirty Weekend
Gardener Imogen Checketts (left) with Chris Packham at the opening of the Wildlife Habitat Garden, Pensthorpe Nature Reserve, for the BBC Breathing Places Dirty Weekend. Photographs by Martin Barber and David Keller.
After opening the garden, Springwatch presenter Chris Packham took time to answer questions from visitors to the reserve and offered his thoughts and tips to enjoy the best of the UK's wildlife.
Doing their thing for nature, the 1st Heacham Scouts helped create a nature space at the Heacham Flood memorial on the North Beach, with afternoon help from Springwatch's Chris Packham.
The scouts used many different potted plants and planted them in a gravelled area around the memorial to improve the natural space on the beach.
Many volunteers came along to help the scouts, whilst BBC Radio Norfolk's Andy Archer came along with his garden party to oversee proceedings.
Across Norfolk, many people had got the message to 'Do One Thing' for nature, and some souls braved the early morning wind on Cromer beach for a litter pick.
Another 'breathing space' that people are trying to protect in Norfolk is that of the beautiful open area around Ketteringham Quarry, south of Norwich.
Carole, Ingrid and the troops helped promote the BBC event by showing off the beautiful wildlife habitats at Ketteringham Quarry.
An old Victorian ice pit at the quarry houses around half a dozen bats each night, with around 30 bats being present in the woodland, alongside other wildlife including herons by the water.
The splendour of Ketteringham Hall can be seen just a short walk from the quarry. The BBC Breathing Places Dirty Weekend continued on Sunday, 7 June, 2009, including an event on the North Norfolk Railway.
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