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 hi-vis gilets, so please stop them and ask as many questions as you like. The £2 […]
Archives for 2024
The Welwyn Festival – Danesbury Fernery Open
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 […]