Saturday 20th July 2019 – BRITISH PTERIDOLOGICAL SOCIETY- (BPS) Visit. The East Anglia Group of the British Fern Society have been invited to visit the Danesbury Fernery on Saturday 20th July. Detailed plans are being drawn up and we will announce detailed timings as soon as they have been agreed. Some BPS visitors will be […]
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We never closed – Anglia in Bloom – judging next week
Following close on the heels of the success of the Welwyn Festival Open Garden Evening in June we are busy preparing the site once again for judging on Tuesday morning 9th July, this time not by 170+ members of Welwyn’s community, but by the (RHS) judges of the Anglia in Bloom Competition 2019. The Friends […]
Report of Working Party and Open Day – Thursday 20th June 2019
The team worked very hard to prepare the site for the Welwyn Festival Open Garden Evening on Thursday 20th June 2019. Extra scheduled working parties had been operating on Thursdays for many weeks, together with many other ad hoc meetings to complete the planting, particularly of Jenny’s Wild Flowers on the Northern Bank. Organised by […]
Anglia in Bloom 2019
We have been informed by the Borough Council that they have entered us once again in this prestigious Competition between Borough and District Councils. The Organising Body is the Royal Horticultural Society. (Click here) for details of the history of this Competition). In 2018 – our first entry in the Competition – Danesbury’s Victororian Fernery […]
Welwyn Festival Open Garden evening – Thursday 20th June 2019
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 […]
Report of Working Party – Thursday 16th May 2019
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 […]
Notice of Work Party – Thursday 16th May 2019
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 […]
The Bench Installed
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 […]
Weekly Work Parties
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. […]
Report of Working Party – Thursday 18th April 2019
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 […]