The Nook - A Garden Blog
The Evolution of a small garden, lots of mistakes, lots of hard work, for those who love gardening.
Monday, 14 April 2025
BLOSSOMING
Sunday, 23 March 2025
CANNOT GARDEN ON WARD FIVE, TWO, FOUR, SIX, DISCHARGE UNIT AND ACUTE MEDICAL UNIT
Not allowed plants in my room in hospital. now recovering from my neck surgery for cervical myelopathy.
Garden handed over to R.
Thought I looked a bit like Doc from Back to the Future but wrong - more like Mad Jack from Father Ted and Craggy Island.
Nearly 8 weeks since had five discs operated on in my neck and finally home. Walking with a frame.
Missed a big chunk of spring.
R has seen newts in pond and there were two hares in the garden. The woodpecker is drumming, the chiffchaff chiffchaffing. She is weeding.
Blossom everywhere wonderful, especial;y the cherries and the damsons. Hope we do not get frost. It has been a very dry month or so.
What?
Do my exercises - okay.
Saturday, 8 February 2025
ALL I WANT
is legs that work, brain that works, and some chocolate
I have had to resort to walking with a rollator
in between falling over. I cannot drive my automatic car. My days of golf are over and I am fed up with hospitals. I was banned from climbing the ladder into the loft to get down the Christmas decorations.
At the midwinter solstice and the wind was howling in the trees, rain hammering the windows and dark at four o’clock.
The garden is a mess but underneath the magnolia stellata by the door daffodils and snowdrops have pushed up from the earth.
We have had some snow briefly but it soon went.
The commonest animal we see are delivery men and the postman - but the heron is back by the pond. So are the pair of mallard. Glad I am not a frog, or newt, or toad.
C has given us a hedgehog house for Christmas. Might move in there soon.
Apparently I have something called cervical myelopathy. After trying Preston NHS treatment was to be in months so my son got me an appointment, albeit privately, in Leeds.
I am now waiting for a neck operation to sort out my prolapsed discs that are pressing on my spinal cord.
Joy!
Not gardening so R has brought in the professionals. For now it is her garden.
Typing is hard work as my arms and hands do not move under my control.
Here are some pics. Next blog - ?when as fingers not working very well.
My revolution is done, now for Rosey.
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
AUTUMN TAIL END
What a lovely sunny crisp day down by the bay, cotoneaster berries flourishing and nearby the black bryony hanging in poisonous ropes in the hedge.
But no it is not at home - the tide has gone out and the fog rolled in.
There is still colour in then garden, calendulas and nasturtiums.
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
WHAT A GREY DAY
For sitting by the wood burner and toasting your feet. Under high pressure the weather does not change much.
R is interested in getting in a garden company to do stuff - which as all I do is fall over and cut a little stuff back might be a good idea.
Still have some lingering photos a bit late but here they are and then I can archive them.
So, the stream (drain) from the field at the back is pouring water into the garden and the leaves from the trees are blocking channels causing overflow etc etc. I wonder how much an acre of paving or concrete would cost. Then it could just be lots off pots?
Now the iCloud will not recognise my password - Aaaaargh!
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
WHAT AUTUMN
Sun is out today - a turnip for the books. Mind you the turnips are all too big old and woody now.
Just have to eat the cavolo nero.
A few pre storm pics of autumn leaves -
And some of the Bramleys. Missed the apple day so put some away in the shed for the winter individually wrapped in newspaper.
And so to gardening and, yes, I tried to light the bonfire again - tried, it flared and then went out.
Friday, 27 September 2024
OPINIONS
Cut that tree down, trim that hedge, organise more and pop goes the wild garden (or is wild garden and excuse for doing nowt much?)
And autumn approaches - hips on the roses, some small and some more luxurious.