Notices

Work Party – Thursday 20th May 2021

17th May 2021 By John Roper Leave a Comment

We are organising a Fernery Work Party on Thursday 20th May 2021

Because of the risk of disturbance to wildlife, we will not be organising Work Parties on the Danesbury Local Nature Reserve until September 2021 at the earliest.

Volunteer Rules and Guidelines

We will be able to work in accordance with the Covid-19 Rules which have been eased this week.

Because we will not therefore be allowed to have more than 30 volunteers working on site at the same time would regular Gardeners please try to confirm to Sarah or Jenny if you plan to attend, using the WhatsApp Gardening Group.

Government guidance encourages us all to continue to exercise personal responsibility rather than government rules. We must all continue to exercise caution and this includes:

social distancing,
not sharing tools unless they have been disinfected before, and then after use by individuals, and
not sharing drinks and or refreshments.

Weather Forecast- long range

Light Cloud and a moderate breeze.

Work Party Leadership

As always, we are short of volunteers prepared to act as Leaders on a regular basis, and we will introduce a roster if this will help solve the problem. For Public Liability Insurance purposes Leaders should have attended a WHBC run Leadership Training Course.

Similarly, Work Parties are required to have somebody qualified as a First Aider in attendance. In practice, when we have been operating two separate Work Parties on the same day, we have been forced to meet this latter rule by having a qualified First Aider attending at least one of the Work Parties, with an up-to-date first Aid Box to hand, and available on the telephone to attend the other Work Party in an emergency.

Work Party Strategy

For the reasons stated above we will not be operating two Work Parties on Thursday 20th May 21.

Work Party No. 1 – Fernery Garden

Sarah Marsh and Jenny Hawkins will be Joint Leaders

Tasks

There are a variety of tasks needing to be undertaken, mostly planting, weeding and general maintenance. This might include final dead-heading of daffodils, mulching, weeding and more planting. We might also need to undertake some silent strimming!

Please bring your own secateurs and other favourite gardening tools with you.

Depending on the availability of resources we will also continue the regular practice of cleaning up chalk graffiti in the rockwork, and clearing out the Pool.

Maydencroft have recently improved the cattle fencing on the perimeter which incorporates improved rabbit protection. A small group might regularly check the outside fencing to ensure that rabbits do not succeed in their burrowing activities.

Preparations before arrival

Will volunteer gardeners please let Sarah know if they plan to attend so that we can keep an eye on numbers.

For Covid-19 reasons it will be necessary for all practical purposes for volunteers to bring their own favourite tools with them, which might usefully include loppers and secateurs. Otherwise all tools will have to be disinfected before use, and after use, and not shared between volunteers.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you. Covid-19 rules dictate that food and drinks should not be handed around or shared.

Please wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves.

On Arrival

On arrival please add your name to the List of Volunteers attending and the Leaders will allocate tasks.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the landowners) require that you complete a Personal Details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes only.

Meeting Points

Fernery Work Party

Meet at the Fernery 9.45 a.m. for a 10 a.m. start

Nature Reserve Work Party

No meeting on 20th May 2021

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Work Parties Resume – Thursday 15th April 2021

13th April 2021 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Volunteer Rules and Guidelines

At long last we are permitted to organise Work Parties once again.

Covid-19 rules must be applied including:

social distancing,
not sharing tools unless they have been disinfected before, and then after use by individuals, and
not sharing drinks and or refreshments.

Weather Forecast- long range

Sunny Intervals and a gentle breeze.

Work Party Leadership

As always, we are short of volunteers prepared to act as Leaders on a regular basis, and we will introduce a roster if this will help solve the problem. For Insurance purposes Leaders should have attended a WHBC run Leadership Training Course.

Similarly, Work Parties are required to have somebody qualified as a First Aider in attendance. In practice we have been forced to meet this latter rule by having a qualified First Aider attending at least one of the Work Parties, with an up-to-date first Aid Box to hand, and available on the telephone to attend the other Work Party in an emergency.

Work Party Strategy

As usual we are planning to operate Two Work Parties as this provides us with the opportunity to offer volunteers work in areas where they have a preference, whether in the Fernery Garden or out in the Nature Reserve.

Work Party No. 1 – Fernery Garden

Sarah Marsh and Jenny Hawkins will be Joint Leaders

Tasks

There are a variety of tasks needing to be undertaken, mostly planting, weeding and general maintenance. This might include dead-heading of daffodils, mulching, weeding and more planting. Direction will be provided if necessary.

Depending on the availability of resources we will also aim to clean up some chalk graffiti in the rockwork, and try to bury the water pipes over the dropping well more permanently to make them less visible and hopefully less liable to interference or vandalism.

At some stage Maydencroft are due to install more effective rabbit proof fencing around the perimeter, and we might therefore expect to see them on site.

Work Party No. 2 – Nature Reserve – Park Field

Leader – Harry Ward

Until volunteers step forward, our Hon. Secretary Harry Ward has offered to lead this Work Party on the 15th April. It is hoped that Chairman John Roper might also attend to help.

Tasks

Until we re-establish a regime or schedule of work with Chris James’ replacement at the WHBC Landscape & Ecology Department, we will concentrate on furthering the work started at our last meeting, as follows.

Sequoia clearing

It is hoped that a small group formed by Andy Trotter and Stephen Jupp will continue clearing the fencing surround to the sequoia near the cattle corral by the entrance road to Danesbury House.

Path Clearance

The main group will work on clearing scrub and the paths on the North West Slopes of the Park Field. It is of paramount importance that at all times volunteers observe and avoid scrub and sites where birds are in evidence of nesting.

Preparations before Arrival

Before arriving, volunteers are asked to consider which of the two working parties they would prefer to join, i.e. the Nature Reserve, or the Fernery, as this helps team organisation.

For Covid-19 reasons it will be necessary for all practical reasons for volunteers to bring their own favourite tools with them, which might usefully include loppers and secateurs. Otherwise all tools will have to be disinfected before use, and after use, and not shared between volunteers.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you. Covid-19 rules dictate that food and drinks should not be handed around or shared.

Please wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves.

On Arrival

On arrival please add your name to the List of Volunteers attending and the Leader will allocate tasks.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a Personal Details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes only.

Meeting Points

Fernery Work Party

Meet at the Fernery 9.45 a.m. for a 10 a.m. start

Nature Reserve Work Party

Meet by the Kissing Gate in the Lay-by outside 38 Carleton Rise, AL6 9RG 9.45 a.m. for a 10 a.m. start.

(This always used to be our meeting point from 1998 until 2016, before the Fernery Project emerged).

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

The Fernery is Open Again.

2nd March 2021 By John Roper Leave a Comment

The Fernery has dried out nicely now and it is safe once again for you all to freely enjoy the spring bulbs. The Friends of Danesbury Fernery thank you all for your patience and indulgence while openings were restricted to weekends only during the recent bad weather.

Come to Enjoy the Fernery

The Spring bulbs are showing well now, and we respectfully ask all parents and guardians to discourage children from running over the flower beds, and certainly stop them from climbing the rockwork! Apart from being very dangerous, this could cause very expensive damage which we might not be able to repair.

The Danesbury Fernery has been restored with a great deal of hard work and commitment by many local volunteers over 5 years, and it has fast become an important site of historical interest and part of Welwyn’s rich heritage. It is being enjoyed as a community garden and we need all visitors to help us protect it.

Please stick to the paths.

We have recently learned that before restoration of the original abandoned chalk pit started in 2015, the Danesbury Fernery has been logged as part of a national Geo-cashing App. Clues, have been hidden in caches at various points in the Fernery dell.

Without wishing to spoil the fun, nor wishing to discourage adults and children alike from getting out and enjoying the countryside, it is clearly no longer appropriate that visitors should be tempted to freely clamber all over the rockwork and the gardens in the quest for hidden caches. It might have been appropriate when the site was an abandoned old chalk pit, but that is no longer the case.

We are happy to tell you that we have had an exceptionally prompt and understanding response from the local cache provider and, even though we could not find them ourselves (!) all the caches have been removed from the Danesbury Fernery.

There are geo-caches reported on the App in many other sites in and around Welwyn, including on the wider Danesbury Local Nature Reserve. These should serve to satisfy the most eager treasure hunting groups, who we hope will find time to visit and enjoy the Fernery at the same time.

Work Parties re-commence

15th July 2020 By John Roper Leave a Comment

The Borough Council have given us permission to re-commence Work Parties on the Danesbury Local Nature Reserve, but it will take time for us all to settle into new Protocols for safe working, including the necessary sanitisation of shared tools, as well as social distancing.

These protocols have been circulated to all regular Friends of Danesbury.

Notice of Work Party on the Nature Reserve (Park Field) – Thursday 16th July 2020 – a reminder

Andrew Beattie has expressed a wish to stand down as Leader of the Nature Reserve, and tomorrow might be his last. So we are looking for good support.

Team Structure

We can no longer operate a second team in the Ancient Track down to the Codicote Road junction with Danesbury Park Road as we only have one designated and qualified leader available tomorrow.

Andrew has therefore agreed with Chris James that if we do have sufficient numbers to operate two teams, then they should work in closer proximity to each other for safety reasons, and both under Andrew’s direction.

Meeting Place

Volunteers should meet at the Cattle Corral at the entrance to the Park Field, at the top end of North Ride.

Team 1 Starts at the kissing gate by the corral on the approach road to Danesbury house working up to the top of the path, clear low hanging branches as close to the ground as possible, cut back bramble trailers, self seeded hawthorns on the park side of path again as close to ground as possible. All cuttings to be taken to the top (I will bring a couple of jumbo sacks to be filled and dragged up). Tools to be secateurs, loppers and bow saw. If volunteers can bring their own tools this will help although I can sanitise a couple from the Fernery shed.

Team 2 (if there are sufficient numbers) will work on clearing the Boundary Edge path that runs parallel to the entrance road to Danesbury Park, but inside on the Nature Reserve. This is described by Chris James as having ‘some sticky-out bits’.

Safety Issues

Andrew has listed the precautions that we all need to take, which includes the need/preference for volunteers to bring their own (favourite) tools, to avoid the need to sanitise shared tools.

We look forward to meeting you all again.

Notice – All Work Parties cancelled

18th March 2020 By John Roper Leave a Comment

We have received a directive from Ann MacDonald, the Landscape & Ecology Manager, Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council, that due to the spread of Covid-19, no more volunteer Working Parties are to operate on the Borough’s nature reserves and gardens for the time being.

From Tuesday 17th March 2020 all work parties must stop until further notice.

Welwyn Festival Open Gardens – cancelled

For the same reason we have been advised that the 2020 Welwyn Festival programme has been cancelled. We will not therefore be holding our planned Open Gardens evening on 25th June 2020.

Notice of Working Party – Thursday 20th February 2020

18th February 2020 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Dependant as we are on the constraints of the weather, and the number of volunteers on site, we are planning to operate two Work Parties on the 20th February:

Local Nature Reserve – Leader Andrew Beattie
The Fernery – Leader Harry Ward

Weather Forecast- long range

Gusty winds and hail showers!

If we have to call the meeting off this week, then we will publish another date as soon as we can. But please keep Thursday 27th February clear if we do choose to drop by one week.

Work Party No 1 – Local Nature Reserve – Leader Andrew Beattie

Volunteers for the Local Nature Reserve Working Parties should collect the spare First Aid Kit, bow saws, loppers and springy wire rakes from the Fernery shed before moving to the allocated work site.

Park Field – Ghylls Hill – The Ancient Track – Primrose Planting

We have now received a pack of 100x primrose plugs from the Borough Council, to be planted. If resources permit, then we will also continue the work of recent months continuing the clearance of the Ancient Track on the Park Field, and other tasks to be scheduled.

The work area is reasonably sheltered and whatever the weather we look forward to a good turnout of non-gardening scrub-bashing volunteers.

Clock Meadow

The Leader will decide on the day, depending on the resources available and weather conditions, if the Nature Reserve Work Party can be split to allow tasks to allocated in the Clock Meadow on the Fernery Field.

Work Party No 2 – Fernery Garden – Leader Harry Ward

Garden Maintenance Tasks

Last month the Work Party completed many, if not all, of the scheduled tasks, including the planting of 2x Holly Trees.

A few days later, whilst photographing some of the spring flowers which are showing beautifully, we witnessed Alan who had, on his own volition, returned to the site to reinforce the stakes supporting the new Holly Trees to keep them secure in the forthcoming storms. We don’t thank Dennis, but we do thank Alan.

We have taken delivery of a pack of 100x Primroses from the Borough Council which are ready to be planted – whatever the weather!

But we are still awaiting the delivery of thousands of new bulbs which are on order from Lubbe of Lisse, Spalding. We are advised that they should now arrive next week and, if the weather forces us to cancel this week’s Work Party, then we are likely to re-arrange the meeting for the following week, when the ground should be nice and ‘moist’, and just ready for bulb planting.

Soft Landscaping tasks – specified by Harry Ward

Harry will be specifying tasks, which will follow the recent mix of maintenance and soft landscaping.

Meeting Place – both Work Parties

All volunteers should meet at the Fernery at 9.30 a.m. for a 10 a.m. start, where the leaders will allocate tasks and distribute tools as appropriate for the working parties. Before arriving, volunteers are asked to consider which of the two working parties they would prefer to join, i.e. the Nature Reserve, or the Fernery, as this helps team organisation.

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you, and wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a Personal Details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes only.

Notice of Working Party – Thursday 16th January 2020

13th January 2020 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Dependant as we are on the constraints of the weather, and the number of volunteers on site, we are planning to operate two Work Parties on the 16th January:

Local Nature Reserve – Leader Andrew Beattie
The Fernery – Leader Harry Ward

Weather Forecast- long range

Light rain showers and a moderate breeze, but the rain is forecast not to arrive until 1300hrs!

Work Party No 1 – Local Nature Reserve – Leader Andrew Beattie

Park Field – Ghylls Hill – The Ancient Track – Habitat Improvement

We will continue the work of recent months continuing the clearance of the Ancient Track on the Park Field. We await the delivery of primrose plugs from the Borough Council.

The work area is reasonably sheltered and whatever the weather we look forward to a good turnout of non-gardening scrub-bashing volunteers.

Photo by Andrew Beattie

Clock Meadow – January and successive months.

Clock Meadow is the name we have given to the newly managed area at the South East Public Footpath entrance to the Fernery Field by the Old London Road and behind Clock House Gardens.

Having started and made such early progress with this area Chris James (WH Borough Council Landscape & Ecology Officer) is keen for us to continue to undertake more pruning, and the removal of elders and some cherry suckers.

Work Party No 2 – Fernery Garden – Leader Harry Ward

Garden Maintenance Tasks – specified by Sarah Marsh and Harry Ward

Cut down necessary perennials and shrubs plants etc
Cut Hellebore leaves off
Cut down ‘full stop’ area on North East corner of the Dell
Plant 2 new holly trees
Continue planting new epimediums
Bulb planting – we have a supply of spring bulbs from the Borough Council which need to be planted – the scale of this task might entail further ad hoc meetings Weed out large perennial weeds
Move foxgloves where there are too many
Jenny needs support to weed and maintain the wild flower beds on the North Bank
Colin has ferns to be planted in the tanked bed, and further fern transplanting and weeding.
Rake the leaf drop for storage on the compost heap.

Soft Landscaping tasks – specified by Harry Ward

We have more old branches to fix in position to aid soil retention on the North Bank and further work to cover the terram with a mix of soil and bark chippings.

Meeting Place – both Work Parties

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you, and wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a Personal Details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes only.

Notice of Work Parties – Thursday 21st November 2019

15th November 2019 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Given the constraints of the weather, and the number of volunteers on site, we are planning to operate two Work Parties on the 21st November:

Local Nature Reserve – Leader Andrew Beattie
The Fernery – Leader Harry Ward

Weather Forecast- long range

Light rain showers and a moderate breeze

Work Party No 1 – Local Nature Reserve

Park Field – Ghylls Hill – The Ancient Track – Habitat Improvement

With next month’s December meeting in mind when, for practical reasons, we will want both working parties working closer together to more easily join up for Seasonal celebrations, we have decided to return this month to the Ancient Track to continue the maintenance work of earlier work parties. The work area is reasonably sheltered and whatever the weather we look forward to a good turnout of non-gardening scrub-bashing volunteers.

A lot of scrub is re-growing at the bottom (Codicote Road) end of the Track and at the kissing gate access, which will be cleared once again with the strimmer.

We will also use loppers to clear scrub and bramble trailers along the banks, and rakes to reveal more of the established ferns and hopefully the bluebells that have been smothered (although not visible at present). We will also prepare the ground for the expected arrival of primrose plugs in the New Year.

Volunteers for the Local Nature Reserve Working Party should collect bow saws, loppers and springy wire rakes from the Fernery shed, and the spare First Aid Kit, before moving down to Ghylls Hill.

Clock Meadow – December and successive months.

This is the name we are giving to the newly managed area at the South East entrance to the Fernery Field by the Old London Road and Clock House Gardens.

We will re-visit the Clock Meadow in December 2019, because it is in line of sight of the Fernery (almost). In December the Clock Meadow volunteers will more easily be able to join up with the Fernery Gardeners for Seasonal Celebrations.

Having started and made such good progress with this area behind Clock House Gardens Chris James is keen for us to undertake more pruning, and removal of elders and some cherry suckers in December and beyond.

In the New Year we will begin wider publicity for this exciting new area of Danesbury which offers so much opportunity for habitat improvement, It is an area on the Nature Reserve which hasn’t previously felt the impact of the volunteer Friends of Danesbury. It will be seen by a different set of visitors to Danesbury Park as they follow the Public Footpath from the old Service Road behind the former Clock Hotel.

Work Party No 2 – Fernery Garden

We have more old branches to fix in position to aid soil retention on the North Bank and further work to cover the terram with a mix of soil and bark chippings
Bulb planting – we have a supply of spring bulbs from the Borough Council which need to be planted – the scale of this task might entail further ad hoc meetings
Jenny needs support to weed and maintain the wild flower beds on the North Bank
Colin has ferns to be planted in the tanked bed, and further fern transplanting and weeding.
We will undertake general maintenance tasks including raking the Leaf drop for storage on the compost heap.

Meeting Place – both Work Parties

All volunteers should meet at the Fernery at 9.30 am where the leaders will allocate tasks and distribute tools as appropriate for the two working parties. Volunteers are asked to decide before arriving which of the two working parties they would like to join, as this helps the organisation.

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you, and wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a personal details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes.

Notice of Work Parties – Thursday 17th October 2019

12th October 2019 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Objectives

We will operate two Working parties:

Local Nature reserve – Habitat Management
Fernery Garden – maintenance and some excavation

Weather Forecast – Long Range

Sunny Intervals and a moderate breeze.

Nature Reserve – Habitat Management

Andrew Beattie will lead this group which will start working in the new area identified by Chris James at the South East corner of the Fernery Field, and described last month.

The area of land between the start of the Public Footpath behind Clock House Gardens and the Fernery Field cattle fence, is owned by the Borough Council and for many years has been undeveloped scrub and grassland.

Earlier this year Maydencroft stripped the area of long standing brambles and scrub in readiness for management of the area and bringing it under control.

It is expected that volunteers will start planning and shaping the area to encourage wildlife, and better use and enjoyment of the space.

Fernery Gardening Group

The Fernery Team led by Harry Ward has been busy over recent weeks in ad hoc groups working on pressing tasks. Details of some of these tasks are included in the Report of the 19th September Working Party; they include opening the Parsons zigzag planting bed, and positioning and planting the recently installed Oak logs on the East Bank.

Tasks for Thursday 17th October are expected to include the following:

Planting ferns and weeding with Colin and Sarah.
Working with Jenny on the wild flowers beds.
Raking leaves and twigs off the grass banks and paths.
Work on the north slope; cutting out areas of terram where the mulch has washed away, and infilling with soil and mulch.
Starting to excavate the newly exposed South Bank around the terracotta brickwork to establish its depth and possibly uncover another Parsons bed with a hard base and drainage.

Meeting Place – both Work Parties

All volunteers should meet at the Fernery at 9.30 am where the leaders will allocate tasks and distribute tools as appropriate for the two working parties. Volunteers are asked to decide before arriving which of the two working parties they would like to join, as this helps the organisation.

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you, and wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a personal details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes.

Notice of Work Parties – Thursday 19th September 2019

16th September 2019 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Objectives

We will again be operating two work parties this Thursday.

Because Maydencroft are scheduled to be on site in the Fernery to undertake final heavy equipment work for 2019, we must limit the number of volunteers working in the Fernery this Thursday, for health and safety reasons.

We therefore encourage Gardening volunteers to work on the Local Nature Reserve with Andrew Beattie’s work party.

Long Range Weather Forecast

Sunny with light winds.

Nature Reserve Work Party – Leader Andrew Beattie

As stated many times before, scrub-bashing work on the Nature Reserve is less likely to disturb wildlife, in particular nesting birds, from September round to March/April each year,

From now until Spring 2020 we therefore encourage volunteers to join Andrew’s scrub-bashing Work Party.

Regular tasks can be expected to include path clearance of overhanging brambles, nettles and tree shoots and runners.

Work on special projects will be agreed in advance between Andrew and Chris James and are likely to include continuation of ancient track clearance down to the Codicote Road, hedge layering, and the clearance and burning of brash left laying around from earlier work parties. Some basic tree pruning might also be on the agenda.

An interesting new Project proposed by Chris James is to develop an area on the South East corner of the Fernery Field into a wildlife study area. The area (outside the cattle fence) owned by the WHBC behind the rear of houses in St John’s Close and the Clockhouse Gardens development and Old Roman Road was cleared by Maydencroft during the year

These are all good seasonal fun tasks for colder Autumn and Winter days as the work of the Fernery Gardening Group falls off.

Fernery Work Party – Leader Harry Ward

Because Maydencroft are on site, we need only a limited number of volunteers to be in the Fernery. Apart from undertaking light tasks, these volunteers will in part supervise Maydencroft’s work in the absence of hands-on WHBC management.

Maydencroft will be:

Mechanically digging out the zigzag bed at the North End and moving soil and turves to other parts of the site
Lifting, moving and installing the three very heavy hollow Oak logs from the North end to the East end.
Excavating the steep South Bank to uncover hidden Anthony Parsons beds.

Scheduled tasks for the few volunteers will include:

Fencing the northern slope where we’ve planted wild flowers and where we’ll plant herbaceous shrubs in October. (Alan and Harry)
Weeding the North Bank wild flower beds (Jenny +1)
Moving last years leaf mulch from the front enclosure to the back one, thus allowing this Autumn’s leaf fall to go into an empty enclosure (Colin + John)
Working with Maydencroft on the zigzag bed, testing the soils for ancient fern spores, and re-positioning the turf. (Colin + !)

More demanding seasonal work such as leaf collection, strimming, grass cutting and general tidying will wait for the October Work Party.

Meeting Place – both Work Parties

How to find the Fernery

If you have not visited us before you will be made very welcome. Please read the directions to find us.

Bring a hot drink and refreshments with you, and wear strong boots or shoes and good quality gardening gloves. All tools will be provided.

On your first visit the Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council (the Owners) require that you complete a personal details Form which will be retained by them for Public Liability Insurance purposes.