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 […]
Xmas 2023 – Our Chair Sara’s Message
(Message delivered to the volunteers in The Fernery at our Xmas 23 Working Party) Happy Christmas everyone Well this year has whizzed by! I just want to say a few words before the Christmas munching and drinking begins. First and foremost is to thank you all for your hard work and commitment to volunteering here […]
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 volunteers from Danesbury, Sherrardspark and Mardley Heath […]
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 evenings. Visitors expressed their […]
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
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 relatively short time that it has taken (since […]
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 past […]
Goodbye to 2022 and Welcome to 2023
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) […]