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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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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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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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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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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As I sit at my desk to write this blog, the door is open to glorious sunshine. Ghillie and caterpillar sunbath on the lawn outside – and life is good! It has been sometime since I posted and since then we have opened the garden at the end of May for…
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At time of writing – 2 days | 01 hour | 40 minutes | 05 seconds… And this one is no help at all! Come and see us – 28th May 2022 – 2pm to 5pm 29th May 2022 – 2pm to 5pm Further details on visiting NGS Garden Ferns Lodge available here – https://www…
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We are at mission critical stage in our preparations for our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge opening – on the 28th and 29th May. With 2 new areas cleared last winter, dead ash trees removed and dealing with the havoc caused by the mole population (who by the…
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The last few weeks have seen every possible sort of weather – driving rain, gales, snow and glorious warm sunshine. I think that it was Mark Twain who said – if you don’t like the weather – wait for 10 minutes! NGS Garden Ferns Lodge has been confuse…
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What a mess Storm Eunice left behind her for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge. A tree from our garden fell across the lane – cut up and chipped by the lovely Dan, our tree man, and his crew. The remainder of the tree then had to be felled. In the garden, we ha…
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