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'the best fernery to be found in the Home Counties'

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Anglia in Bloom 2023 – A Gold Award

We have more success to announce. The Friends of Danesbury Fernery were Gold Award Winners in the Category Historic Parks and Gardens on 20th September at the 2023 Annual Anglia in Bloom (RHS) Presentation Awards Ceremony in Huntingdon. This is further recognition of all the work by many … Read Full Article about Anglia in Bloom 2023 – A Gold Award

National Garden Scheme – Success

The two Open Days of 8th and 10th June were a resounding success. Huge praise goes to all the volunteers who worked especially hard preparing the site to the high standards expected of NGS Gardens, and those who manned the service points, and the refreshments and Plant Sales stands during both … Read Full Article about National Garden Scheme – Success

Fernery Video 2023

This video was made in June 2023 when the Fernery was just about ready for the National Garden Scheme Opening. Pete Stevens @ creative empathy … Read Full Article about Fernery Video 2023

National Garden Scheme (NGS) – Open Days 2023

 We announced at our delayed 2022 Christmas gathering, that the Friends of Danesbury Fernery (FODF) had been invited to open the Danesbury Fernery as part of the National Garden Scheme (NGS) on Thursday 8th and Saturday 10th June 2023 from 5.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m.  Considering the … Read Full Article about National Garden Scheme (NGS) – Open Days 2023

Garden Maintenance continues in earnest

The Tuesday working parties in The Fernery are putting in extra hours in preparation for the forthcoming summer! For the first time on 2nd May 2023 we were able to use an industrial sized shredder to start to get to work on the many fallen branches and prunings that had been gathered over the … Read Full Article about Garden Maintenance continues in earnest

The Tanked Bed created by Anthony Parsons for Royal ferns

A Problem for Parsons Although expert as a fern cultivator, Anthony Parsons had his frustrations developing the Danesbury Fernery. In particular, he could not get one family of native ferns 'the Royals' to grow to their best advantage. He grew these large ferns "at a fair distance apart" and was … Read Full Article about The Tanked Bed created by Anthony Parsons for Royal ferns

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Goodbye to 2022 and Welcome to 2023

Report of the 19th January 2023 Working Parties. All volunteers at today's … [Read More...] about Goodbye to 2022 and Welcome to 2023

Oct 2022 – Restoring South Bank Steps

Early 19th Century gardening journals told us that steps existed from near the … [Read More...] about Oct 2022 – Restoring South Bank Steps

July 2022 – Reflections on the 2022 Open Day

The team worked so hard. Once again we were having an Open Day on Thursday … [Read More...] about July 2022 – Reflections on the 2022 Open Day

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