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Report of the BPS Visit – Saturday 20th July 2019

13th August 2019 By John Roper Leave a Comment

The Danesbury volunteers welcomed our visitors from the East Anglia Group of the British Pteridological (Fern) Society led by Peter Blake. As reported on 2nd July 2019 this was a return of the Autumn 2018 visit to Norwich which was hosted by Peter Blake and his colleagues. A group of 12 members enjoyed being shown […]

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Anglia in Bloom – Judging

25th July 2019 By John Roper Leave a Comment

The RHS judges visited the Fernery 12 months after their 2018 visit which resulted in the Friends of Danesbury Fernery winning the 2018 Anglia in Bloom Conservation Award.

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The Plantation – Norwich

23rd November 2018 By John Roper Leave a Comment

The following Report is written by Colin Adlam. A group of us who visited the BPS East Anglia Group Indoor meeting in Norwich on 27th October 2018, took the opportunity to visit The Plantation in Norwich, which was very close to the BPS EA meeting place.  We believed there was a rustic bridge at The […]

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Report – BPS East Anglia Group – Autumn Meeting – Norwich

23rd November 2018 By Colin Adlam Leave a Comment

On 27th October 2018 a small group from The Friends of Danesbury Fernery (FODF) met in Welwyn for a convivial drive up to Norwich for the regular autumn social get together of the British Pteridological Society East Anglia Group (BPS EA). Thanks go to Andrew for driving myself, Sarah and Harry all that way. A […]

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Dewstow Hidden Gardens and Grottoes – Caerwent, Monmouthshire

8th September 2017 By John Roper Leave a Comment

Dewstow House, near Caerwent, is not far from Chepstow in Monmouthshire, and one of the incredible things about this garden is that it was only discovered in 2000, after lying buried for nearly sixty years.1   Anybody who has attended one of Claude Hitching’s Pulham Legacy Presentations will recall that he declares that Dewstow is […]

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