Because I am British, I feel that it is OK if I talk about the weather – when it comes to NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. And as a gardener, in the past weeks, it has dominated my every waking gardening thought. Like everyone else, I have seen the water butt…
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As I sit at my desk to write this blog, the door is open to glorious sunshine. Ghillie and caterpillar sunbath on the lawn outside – and life is good! It has been sometime since I posted and since then we have opened the garden at the end of May for…
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At time of writing – 2 days | 01 hour | 40 minutes | 05 seconds… And this one is no help at all! Come and see us – 28th May 2022 – 2pm to 5pm 29th May 2022 – 2pm to 5pm Further details on visiting NGS Garden Ferns Lodge available here – https://www…
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We are at mission critical stage in our preparations for our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge opening – on the 28th and 29th May. With 2 new areas cleared last winter, dead ash trees removed and dealing with the havoc caused by the mole population (who by the…
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The last few weeks have seen every possible sort of weather – driving rain, gales, snow and glorious warm sunshine. I think that it was Mark Twain who said – if you don’t like the weather – wait for 10 minutes! NGS Garden Ferns Lodge has been confuse…
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What a mess Storm Eunice left behind her for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. A tree from our garden fell across the lane – cut up and chipped by the lovely Dan, our tree man, and his crew. The remainder of the tree then had to be felled. In the garden, we ha…
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The winter is really when you are gardening for the spring and summer – and at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge, it is a sprint to be ready as we move to spring… When the rustle of new growth becomes a roar. Even now we have our opening days for the National…
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As the shortest day comes and goes and the finish is in sight – the Christmas and New Year holidays are upon us at NGS garden Ferns Lodge. It has been another amazing year. There has been plenty of hard work, incremental improvements all around, lots…
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It’s always a farce when the clocks go back at the end of October for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. I find myself paddling around in the dark trying to remember where I put the wheelbarrow and making mental lists of all those little jobs that weren’t quite…
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As the nights draw in and the temperature cools at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge – the leaves start to turn colour and fall to the ground. Autumn has most definitively arrived and with it a spell of extraordinarily dry weather. Hence Dan and his digger and…
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