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Happy Christmas from NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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Winter is upon us at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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The Digger Arrives at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge for this Winter’s Project

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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The Last Day of Summer at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

As I scribble this blog in the NGS Garden Ferns Lodge shed, Ghillie is snoring at my feet, having been unsuccessfully chasing rabbits in the big garden already this morning. It must be said that there are FAR TOO MANY of them and a rabbit platoon has…

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The Rainy Weather turns Hot, Hot, Hot – NGS Garden Ferns Lodge basks in sun…

After our open weekend there was a small respite for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge before the temperature dropped and the rains came – and just kept coming. Working in the garden at weekends to try to keep up, I have developed both webbed hands and feet…!…

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THANK YOU everyone for a FANTASTIC NGS Garden Ferns Lodge Opening!

The 5th and 6th June 2021  were set as the date of our NGS garden Ferns Lodge opening way back in 2020 – it seemed a long way away as we struggled with the vegetable garden, diggers, composting, planting and getting ready… Of course, the one thing…

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Almost at the finishing post… NGS Garden Ferns Lodge is opening NEXT WEEKEND – Yikes!!

The very heavy breezes and massive amount of tree fall that they leave behind have now exited stage left of NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. The rain has also stopped and the sun has come out – the rustle of growth is palpable and the weeds are loving it too!…

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Proper April showers, a hurtle to the finish and a homeless gnome… at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

April showers have turned up well into May, and it is terrific. You can almost hear the rustle of everything growing and the beds and shrubberies are filling out beautifully. Of course, it is a little cold which means that we are, I am told, around 3…

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Hurtling towards June and progress of sorts at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge…

With the May bank holiday behind us, our NGS garden Ferns Lodge opening, on the 5th and 6th June, is now getting dangerously close! Cold weather and little rain have been less than helpful but as I settle down to write this blog, the rain is coursing…

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Making Progress, Getting Ready for June and Ghillie’s Caterpillar at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

We are definitely making progress – especially for our opening in June. The polytunnel is not a simple construct! With masses of experience, a degree in nuclear physics and plenty of time – putting it up is possible. Dan, Simon and Dan’s crew have wa…

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