The Nook - A Garden Blog

The little grey tree rat is back, burying peanuts on the banking, or digging up peanuts it has buried, or digging up peanuts the jays have b...

This is the gate to our "drive". The inverted commas are intentional as we do not own the drive, it belongs to a local Trust who w...

So autumn is here - even to sycamore leaves. This blog may stutter for a while as I have blackspot on that organ which which males have much...

There is a deep frost forecast for tonight, many flowers will soon be gone. The valerian by the gate is blooming again lavishly and the Kaff...

Nothing to do with aeroplanes so will not interest Ni.! With the growth of the plants, especially the grey foliage ones that survived last w...

Last night was the first frost. This affects the lower part of the garden and the far end which is shaded by trees. The upper slopes are fro...

I heard R stirring and turned over. She brought me a cup of tea but I wanted to stay asleep. Then I heard a cry of anguish. "Bullocks....

Apart from leaves going red, yellow and brown there is still quite a lot still in bloom - So here are some - Nasturtiums not yet hit by the ...

I do not like Gladioli like this - can just about deal with the odd colour but a couple of years back got a free bag of glads with an order....

Some practical, some not. The willow tunnel in the garden - see previous blogs - was inspired by a strange mixture of ideas. I had seen will...

I wrote this post some time ago - about a month - and forgot to post it so here it is Today we are going to plant daffodils. Got a cheap sac...

Other things have arrived to drag me away from the garden - health! Managed to mow some of the lawn today. Also have weed killed the paths -...

As it is raining again I though I would talk about water! Not the supply from out borehole, not the pond but the "stream" which is...

So the garden is bare and let's put in a few creeping ground cover plants. One of the best is Creeping Jenny though R complained that it...

There are weeds growing in my hair and toadstools under my fingernails. My skin is going wrinkly - I know it is aged decrepitude - by it is ...

And the rain it raineth every day - well not quite every day, the sun is shining now. But - it feels like it is wet all the time. Even if th...

This is a flying blog as grandchildren J and W are here. Two items of caution come first - a friend was trimming his son's hedge when th...

No, not the bee stuff but the fungus stuff. Not Fungus the Bogeyman but Fungus the Treekiller. The first picture shows the ash tree where th...

So - what is it called - CLEMATIS HERACLEIFOLIA. Blue(ish), scented and a shrub about 3 feet high that does not climb. Last year it appeared...

I thought I would let all know how the pumpkin (one of 3) and the marrow (was a courgette) are getting on. I went into the garden, wi...

At the start there was bare earth, the lid over the borehole and the septic tank. It is spring 2007 the journey began and tentative lines of...

Yes, its pouring down again. Yesterday managed to get compost to R's new bed by the Wendy House, pull up the last of the carrots for din...

The birds on the feeders behave so differently. The blue tits are fearless and sit in the bush whilst I refill with seed. The coal tits arri...

Every year if possible, weather ok and motivation adequate, we go to the Li'le Royal - The Lowick and District Agricultural Show at Lowi...

The rain has stopped for a moment but the grass is too wet to mow. I have topped up the bird feeders - we seem to be feeding every bird for ...