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 […]
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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 […]
The Welwyn Festival – Danesbury Fernery Open
Xmas 2024 – The Volunteers Celebrate
Chair’s Christmas Message December 16th 2024 Happy Christmas everyone. Another year has come and gone. I wont talk for long so everything stays warm, including us! Glad to see that there are quite a few of you here, because without you, the Fernery would never look this good. However, we also need to try and […]
A Good Time to read a Peaceful Poem by Chloe Cheng
My name’s Chloe and I am a Master’s student studying Creative Writing at Loughborough University. I am also a frequent visitor of the Danesbury Fernery. This poem was written as part of an assignment for my degree, but it is also an ode to a historical gem that is precious to Welwyn and all our […]
Notable visitors in 2024 – The Folly Fellowship
We were approached in November 2023 by The Folly Fellowship who were following up a Report of our work in a 2017 Hertfordshire Gardens Trust Journal, when we were only two years into major restoration work. With their deep interest in Grottoes and Ferneries, the Fellowship were organising a ‘Hertfordshire Ramble’ to include The Danesbury […]
The Welwyn Festival Committee – An Amazing Award
On Tuesday 3rd September 24 a group of volunteers joined Sara and the Committee in celebration of the end of another successful year Managing and Maintaining the Fernery. The high point was without doubt the fantastic award of £1000 from the Welwyn Festival Committee which had been officially presented at their Grand Prize Giving Evening […]
We are ready. Are you ready too?
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 new green caps, so please stop them and ask as many questions as you like. The […]