Chair’s Christmas Message December 16th 2024 Happy Christmas everyone. Another year has come and gone. I wont talk for long so everything stays warm, including us! Glad to see that there are quite a few of you here, because without you, the Fernery would never look this good. However, we also need to try and […]
Archives for 2024
A Good Time to read a Peaceful Poem by Chloe Cheng
My name’s Chloe and I am a Master’s student studying Creative Writing at Loughborough University. I am also a frequent visitor of the Danesbury Fernery. This poem was written as part of an assignment for my degree, but it is also an ode to a historical gem that is precious to Welwyn and all our […]
Notable visitors in 2024 – The Folly Fellowship
We were approached in November 2023 by The Folly Fellowship who were following up a Report of our work in a 2017 Hertfordshire Gardens Trust Journal, when we were only two years into major restoration work. With their deep interest in Grottoes and Ferneries, the Fellowship were organising a ‘Hertfordshire Ramble’ to include The Danesbury […]
The Welwyn Festival Committee – An Amazing Award
On Tuesday 3rd September 24 a group of volunteers joined Sara and the Committee in celebration of the end of another successful year Managing and Maintaining the Fernery. The high point was without doubt the fantastic award of £1000 from the Welwyn Festival Committee which had been officially presented at their Grand Prize Giving Evening […]
We are ready. Are you ready too?
On Thursday 27th June from 4.30 pm to 8 p.m. the Danesbury Fernery will be Open as part of the Welwyn Festival Open Gardens Programme. The Friends of Danesbury Fernery Volunteers will be there in force, identified by their new green caps, so please stop them and ask as many questions as you like. The […]
The Fernery doesn’t look after itself!
An obvious statement perhaps. To ‘keep the show on the road’ our volunteer Gardening Group look after the Fernery and care for it endlessly, in every living moment – and not just on Tuesdays throughout the year – and not just on the third Thursday every month when work parties include the wider Nature Reserve […]
Work Parties – Thursday 15th February 2024
Work Party No. 1 The Fernery The Danesbury Volunteers’ morning work included: The Sherrardspark Woodwardens – afternoon session A group of volunteers from the Sherrardspark Woodwardens kindly responded to our request for help once again, and they visited the Fernery in the afternoon to undertake some work on the large Hawthorn tree that had fallen […]
Nature Reserve Work Parties – 3rd Thursday monthly
As a reminder, 2x Work Parties operate on the 3rd Thursday monthly at 10 a.m. throughout the year – all listed in the Calendar. Work Party 1 – on the wider Danesbury Nature Reserve Work Party No. 2 – in the Fernery – (replacing that week’s Tuesday Gardening Group meeting) Work Party Thursday 23rd January […]
And still they come!
A cold and frosty morning caused the cancellation of our scheduled Tuesday Gardening Group meeting, but it didn’t stop visitors! The intrepid walkers from the Walking for Health group in the village were determined to include the Fernery on their Danesbury Walk on the morning of 9th January 2024. But they did bump into our […]