The Nook - A Garden Blog

This is the windowsill in my study. Now, in the garden you can come across things in trees. There are a small set of chimes yet also an old ...

This evening the sun came out and shone on a golden hill to the east, a hill curved and surmounted by a bisecting fence. In the distance the...

Occasionally something surprising arrives in the garden - here it is - Tall Melilot, a wild plant not known for growing here - has it come w...

First a summary - weeding, picked late raspberries, picked broad beans and broccoli, weeding, mowed all the lawns (with the rain the grass i...

RAINRAINRAIN BOREDBOREDBORED GRASSGRASSGRASSGROWING and wet. R loves alchemilla mollis and it flops out of vases around the house (it goes w...

Rambling around the garden in my head, I suppose. It is raining. I suspect the weather may finish off the remaining raspberries for good. Ye...

So I have to admit that the last three blogs were written two weeks ago and put on a memory stick. Then, using R's laptop, I released th...

Let us start with bad news - R does not really like the meadowsweet which grows inabundance in the wilder parts of the bottom garden. I quit...

As you can see we are into the picking season - raspberries, goosegogs and the blackcurrants. I inadvertantly got my hand in this shot reve...

Well, it is monkey flower time. Down by the pond plants are flowering - mimulus (monkey flower) has spread to good effect as have both of th...

So much happening. My couture mentor has died aged 83 - at least that is the impression the family give me - Peter Falk in a Mac rather like...

Let me start with what R likes. R like Alchemilla Mollis, Lady's Mantle. Now we have three types in the garden - the alpine - small and ...

In between the rain showers (and longer spells) tidying is in order. The log pile up the garden gets smaller and the leg shed gets more full...

At the moment most of the garden is pink and red and blue and other similar shades. Yellow is a problem and things will have to be moved. I ...

I think it is time for a garden plan. To start here is a Google image - the one you can see if you look at The Nook now. This is at least si...

Though colour is very important in the garden as relief from the predominant one of GREEN, white is also essential. This can take the form o...

After a weekend in London - sadness at leaving family there - but joy at returning to a place where there is no drone of traffic, no people ...