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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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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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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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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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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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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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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