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Magnolia - Ferns Lodge Garden

Breeze, stick collecting, china and the challenges of getting ready…

March has been a breezy month and mostly wet, but warm. Sarah took these fantastic shots showing spring flowers in abundance. If you look very carefully you can see them bending in around 40 knots of breeze. Many flowers, particularly camellia, have…

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Periwinkle - Ferns Lodge Garden

And so the season begins… | 2019

February is such a trying month… Far enough away from Christmas to be boring with the cold and wet upon us and not enough light to make a massive difference. January has the advantage of being an exciting start to a new year. February is simply what…

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Cordon Bleu for Plants

You know that you have become a compost bore when your family gives you a book about compost for Christmas! Worse than that, instead of the polite thank you whilst thinking what worthy individual you can give such a present to, you sneak away mid-fes…

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Ferns Lodge Map 2019

The Magic of the Plan!

The plan of the garden is one of my favourite parts of this website. See below – It started with a very dry ordinance survey map that was updated when the garden was surveyed a year or so ago to decide whether it had merit as a wood… At that time it…

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Seasons Greetings from Ferns Lodge

Happy Christmas and a very happy New Year. Although a white Christmas is uber unlikely, here are some images taken last March of the tree house, bottom meadow and a very snowy top garden. The garden shed was snug and warm for home working on the snow…

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Great blue hydrangea in the top garden - Ferns Lodge Garden

The very first Post!

Welcome to the very first post. On a grey December day, the rain is rattling down the window panes in the garden shed as I write this, and the last of the leaves from the mighty oaks surrounding the garden are falling and swirling around the lawn. Th…

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