The Nook - A Garden Blog

Again we are nearly snow free (though not ice) because it all falls on the pennines and Lake District when it come from the Northeast. Plant...

I have just stuck this on the Gardener's World site - "Every garden needs, at least, a rough patch if it is big enough - or even if...

Outside it is very cold - first really hard frost though the sun is now shining. The birds are active and I noticed that all the berries on ...

You would think - make a path, then it is done. No way - the one above is a path made by a builder, hoggin and side boards and hardcore and ...

As I am rotting away I thought I would talk of exciting things like hyphae and spore bodies - fungi. The first is that horror of horrors - t...

It is a wild day. The heavy rain has passed but the wind is roaring over the house and through the trees. Saw my first flock of redwing - he...

So the storm came last night - well a bit of a gale - and blew off most of the remaining leaves. The Prunus shirotae still has some. The col...

Rain, rain, rain and floods. Unblocked the stream in several palaces - leaves and silt, dislodged turf from the bullock invasion, cobbles an...

Manchester yesterday, Manchester today - travelling, it is tiring so the garden gets ignored. Thank heavens I have done the last grass cut b...

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 ...