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2024 and the Promise of the New Season for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

Another overlong gap between blogs, which is lazy of me, but at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge, it’s all been happening to the accompaniment of the squelch of wellies in the mud, Ghillie’s muddy paws, and much reading to discover what the opposite of a rain…

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Winter Projects and Buckets of Rain for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

Since my last post, the rain has kept coming – in biblical amounts and torrential torrents. The water course filled up, as well as all those little dips and areas where I always promise myself that we will raise the level and re-seed, but where we ha…

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A Lovely Warm Start to Autumn 2023 at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

Looking at my last blog, I am ashamed that since our June opening, there has been a drought of news from NGS garden Ferns Lodge… However, for us and for UK gardeners as a whole, this summer has served up quite the reverse – with lashings of rain th…

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A Really Big Thank You From NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

For all those lovely people who visited NGS Garden Ferns Lodge for our opening on the 3rd and 4th June – Thank you for coming, enjoying the wonderful weather (I would love to say that we organised it, but we don’t have the authority!), eating cake, d…

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Countdown to Our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge Opening 3rd and 4th June – Only a Hop and a Skip Away

What weather we have had at NGS garden Ferns Lodge! Opening 3rd and 4th June. Contact sue.grant@fernslodge.co.uk for more information. Wet, wet, wet and then it rained some more…! Also, cold – so we still have blue bells and the foxgloves are miles…

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Happy Easter and the Absolute Need for Sturdy Wellies at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

Easter comes early this year, but it is still a reminder that we open NGS Garden Ferns Lodge on the 3rd and 4th June 2023 and of the seeming impossibility of being anything like ready! The posters have arrived from the lovely NGS so it must be right!…

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Winter Projects, Falling Trees and the Promise of Spring for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

As we trudge through February, it seems eons since I last posted just before Christmas, and so many winter projects have happened here at NGS garden Ferns Lodge. Our lovely plant wizards from Bashly Nurseries have delivered industrial amounts of larg…

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Winter and More Diggers at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

With the temperature barely lifting from 0 degrees, rain with a hint of snow in it and plenty of freezing fog, it really is chilly at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. The frost on the ground has been with us for days, and when the pale winter sun does peep th…

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NGS Garden Ferns Lodge on film and our Monster Winter Project

As I sit in my familiar place in the garden shed to write this blog, the wind is whistling and it is snowing leaves which then hurtle to the ground. We also have rain – that very rare commodity that I dreamed of this summer, and it is truly proper, B…

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Project NGS Garden Ferns Lodge moves on, and very peculiar weather…

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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