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A Really Big Thank You From NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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Countdown to Our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge Opening 3rd and 4th June – Only a Hop and a Skip Away

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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Happy Easter and the Absolute Need for Sturdy Wellies at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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Winter Projects, Falling Trees and the Promise of Spring for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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Winter and More Diggers at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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NGS Garden Ferns Lodge on film and our Monster Winter Project

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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Project NGS Garden Ferns Lodge moves on, and very peculiar weather…

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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Sunshine After the Storm at NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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The Countdown Begins for NGS Garden Ferns Lodge

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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Hurtling towards our NGS Garden Ferns Lodge opening with NO RAIN!!!

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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