The Nook - A Garden Blog

So this is Christmas, and what have we done? Chopped a few logs and had wonderful fun? The earth it is frozen, in shade or in sun, And the p...

So the weather is to turn warmer - about time - which means I have no excuses to stay out of the garden and implement the ideas circulating ...

We had a rumble last night around midnight - I thought it was snow coming off roof but on looking this morning the snow is still there. Then...

Snow on snow on snow - a bleak but beautiful winter. All work on hedging, gardening and so on ceases. Lots of spade work but one cannot ...

Back has come the bitterly cold weather. Ground as hard as iron and all that stuff. The Hedgemen came and began to lay the field hedge. They...

So, we are just getting used to driving around in the BMW again when we are told the snow and cold is coming back. Next year it is winter ty...

Got up this morning to find it had rained overnight, not frozen but thawed and 5 inches of snow was all but gone. A little still in the shad...

Sitting at the computer I looked out of the window at the banking and saw this bird. At first I thought it might have been a Snipe but on cl...

So we are snowed in - well I will try to get out this afternoon - and then try to get back! The first picture is a panorama - 3 images put t...

The photograph of the fox tracks was poor and now we have 3 inches more snow. It is a good job we went shopping yesterday, Friends are skiin...

The snow is finally falling, the, last night it rained for a while, thawed for a while and froze. All is crusty. Went out to shovel drive. T...

This is the view from my computer out of the window and up the garden. Not much gardening being done - Earth stood hard as iron (as did my t...

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...