The Nook - A Garden Blog

There was a slight frost again last night. It leaves strange patterns in the garden as on this stone and it lends a special beauty in the ea...

Still frosts as in this image after a freezing fog but as you can see the laying of the hedge has opened up vistas we did not have before. T...

Woke up expecting fog and was greeted by a sunny, if chilly day. No excuses - get in the garden It seemed only a few days ago The Nook looke...

The electricity was off for most of the day so R went into the garden and weeded the asparagus bed. I popped out for ten minutes to prune th...

This was the inside of the shed before it got messy! So what does one do in the garden when it is just too wet - tidy the shed and have a ch...

First the dead birds - I was tidying up on the terrace (which I called the patio but apparently that is spanish for courtyard which it is no...

Yesterday I attacked a bank of very thorny rambler roses - cut them back hard in preparation before moving them. My fingers now have thorn c...

Just when you think that you can get back into the garden and start to clear away the detritus of last year it snows. We have moved most of ...

It is cold again and the garden is a mess from neglect, snow etc. Mr E. and his two helpers are laying the hedge at the bottom of the garden...

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...