One of the great things about living and gardening in the UK is the changing seasons. As each season approaches, I decide that it is most definitely my favourite. As we hurtle through autumn and get ready for winter, the leaves are turning quickly, a…
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Hurrah! After a busy NGS Garden Ferns Lodge opening in June and six private viewings by all sorts of lovely people—U3A, WI, and the amazing Woodlands Gardening Group—we have closed our top gate and baked our last scone for 2024! We have raised an ama…
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Despite the almost universally rubbish weather this summer, the sun shone on the weekend of our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge opening at the beginning of June. We had a ball with lots of lovely people. We served tea and cakes to 168 guests and welcomed many…
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It’s amazing what can happen in late spring with a little less rain and some sunshine. As we hurtle towards our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge Open Weekend, we are making great progress, although there is always more to do… There have been some bumps in th…
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The rain has really not stopped in 2024, and we are thinking of commissioning an Ark! The ground remains sodden; our works, due to be completed for our NGS opening on the 1st and 2nd of June, are nowhere close to being ready. More diggers are an impo…
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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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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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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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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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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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