It’s that time of year again when the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council have the opportunity to show the (RHS) Anglia in Bloom judging team our beautiful town and borough. It is a Borough competition sponsored by the Royal Horticultural Society and covers Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. This year the WHBC has entered […]
Archives for July 2025
The Fernery Open Garden Volunteers Rewarded
Monday 30th June 25 The volunteers are glowing a) with praise from the High Sheriff on the 20th June b) with praise from the Open Garden Visitors on the 22nd June c) with praise for the FODF Committee who organised the private picnic on Monday evening to thank all the volunteers, regular and otherwise, who […]
Welwyn Festival Open Garden
Sunday 22nd June 2025 Once again the Fernery was open and attracted large numbers of villagers, friends and their families. The final count (in the order of 150 visitors) has not yet been made but numbers of visitors were slightly down on previous years for a number of possible reasons: this was our first Sunday […]
The King’s Representative visits the Fernery
Friday 20th June 2025 In the weeks leading up to the Welwyn Festival Open Garden programme the volunteers had been working extra hard making final preparations so that the Fernery was at its best. Then came the call from Welwyn Hatfield’s own Palace at The Campus in Welwyn Garden City that the King’s Representative in […]