John Roper

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 volunteers from Danesbury, Sherrardspark and Mardley Heath […]

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 evenings. Visitors expressed their […]

 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 relatively short time that it has taken (since […]

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 past […]

Report of the 19th January 2023 Working Parties. All volunteers at today’s Local Nature Reserve and Fernery Gardening Group working parties gathered together in the Danesbury Fernery at 11 a.m. for a ‘2022 Xmas Celebration’, delayed from 15th December 22 when heavy rain cancelled the original programme. Where Paul’s Mulled Wine (in Christine’s insulated container) […]

Early 19th Century gardening journals told us that steps existed from near the entrance down to the grotto but we had not been able to establish the location to any degree of certainty. There were two or three slopes that might have provided a route that matched the description but in January 2018 Ann and […]

Sara, our new Chair, has held a Planning meeting and the FODF Committee are all very busy addressing their allocated tasks. The Fernery will be ‘Open’ from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. as part of the annual Welwyn Festival programme. There will be a £2 entrance charge for adults that goes to the Festival Committee […]

Weather Forecast – long range Sunny intervals and a gentle breeze. Management of Work on Danesbury Local Nature Reserve We operate two working parties on the morning of the third Thursday each month. and we have a Fernery Gardening group which meets regularly, frequently on a weekly basis depending on the level of weeding and […]