The Nook - A Garden Blog

Phew! Gardening hard whilst I can. R is still raking the bankings to get rid of the dead grass. I got out weedkiller (sorry not organic but ...

Precisely, especially in the boggier areas. Panic - mowing approaching at a rate of knots - and too early in the year. £100 voucher arrived ...

The garden is waking up slowly, buds are starting to break on the flowering currant - I suggested that R used some as decoration in the chur...

This morning the garden was honoured by the great great grandchildren of Tom S. We walked down the path to the left in the photograph and wi...

On Page 177 of the Special 20th Anniversary Edition, March issue of Gardeners' World Magazine is The Nook! They have an item for befores...

There was snow on the hills yesterday and a bit of frost. There is a cold wind blowing today. R cleared some of the banking of dead grass, n...

Yesterday I was naughty! R kept telling me that I had done enough and come in but I wanted to finish chipping willow and buddleia prunings a...

With a Roley, Poley, Gammon and Spinach, Heigh-ho ! Yes - I went to dig out the pond and Anthony Rowley and mate have given me the perfect e...

It is winter, it is wet, it is muddy, it is cold so where do the Grandchildren want to be - no, not on the nice warm kitchen near the Aga bu...

The are stirrings in the shrubbery! When we first came one of the first things I did was to nip to a local garden centre, that was closing, ...

So why this heading, this title? Well, when I looked at the stats for the blog I found that there were some unusual places listed as countri...

I am not a Monty Don - a wet weather gardener, anyway I have a cold up my nose so it would be most inadvisable to get cold and wet. The fi...

As the last blog on pond digging had pictures of frost from the garden this one on flowers will have a picture of the top pond excavated wit...

Firstly two frosty pictures - the first from the garden to the lane to Pennington - now visible after the hedge laying. The second is throug...

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...