John Roper

Site Preparation (1) You are reminded that this year we are Open on the evening of 20th June 2019 from 6 pm to 8.30 pm. We will in fact have a Working Party on the morning of the Open Evening itself, at which time we will be busy tidying up the site for presentation to […]

Tasks We had a very good turnout of 13 volunteers all of whom worked in the Fernery. on a dry and bright day. Fewer record photos than usual were taken because we were so busy! Weeding and planting Jenny brought more wild flower plugs to plant in the Northern Chalk Slopes and in the Southern […]

Weather Forecast – Long Range Sunny Intervals and a moderate breeze. Tasks As indicated in the Report of the last meeting of 18 April we are now focusing on the tasks associated with preparing the Fernery for the June 20th Open Garden evening. Leaders will be on site from 9.30 am to open the shed […]

After reporting the debate in March 2019 about the means of securing the bench kindly donated by Mike Smith, it should not go unrecorded that Alan and Harry did get the bench installed successfully on Tuesday morning 26th March 2019, as many members and visitors have since testified. It is in a lovely South facing […]

Preparation for the Welwyn Festival Open Garden Programme As we did last year, it has been proposed that we hold meetings on each Thursday morning between now and Thursday 20th June 2019 in order to complete tasks designed to get the Fernery spick and span in good time for the Welwyn Festival Open Garden Programme. […]

Tasks It was decided to operate just one Working Party as the amount of work to be undertaken in the Fernery Garden would demand the full attention of the 14 volunteers present, and the bird nesting season is upon us, militating against scrub-bashing until August at the earliest. We were also mindful that with the […]

Sarah – “We have some new and very exciting plants to put in the Fernery” This ‘call for action’ was broadcast on our WhatsApp Fernery Gardening Group on 26th March, and a busy team was formed at short notice.

Following the planting of 5000 x snowdrops ‘in the green’ on the 11th March 2019, (see earlier News item) we were offered another 5000 x plants by the WHBC. A small team met on Thursday 4th April and added to the earlier plantings so that come the Spring of 2020 we will have a splendid […]

Weather Forecast (Long Range) Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze and warm. Tasks Depending on the number of volunteers and qualified leaders who turnout, we will aim to operate two separate work parties. We will all meet at The Fernery for initial briefings and to allocate of tasks and issue tools. Leaders will be on […]