The Nook - A Garden Blog

 The cardoon is assailed and ailing, beset with aphids and stunted. The wilder garden is too wild and after the rain flattened grass.  The b...

 So, there I was going to the new veg beds, newly surrounded by chicken wire fencing and about to sow some Sweet Williams and wallflowers fo...

So Platinum Jubilee, party for locals at the house - we even had sunshine - and I got to mow what was needed. You can see all the yellow rat...

  I can almost hear the leaves breathing in the sunshine and warmth. More rain needed - soft refreshing rain please.  I have moved the taget...