The Nook - A Garden Blog

It always intrigues me that here we have our patch of land from which we are making a garden and all the time it is desperately trying to re...

The conversation with myself goes something like this - "There is something missing in the garden." "What?" "A we...

So let me start with Victoria plums - we are stuffed with them - every pudding it seems is plums, I bagged 7 lots of 1lb for the freezer, ga...

Autumn changes are coming early - leaves changing hue and there is a sense of tiredness in the garden - except for the wasps on the plums. T...

I have just been out after breakfast and the house is surrounded by a whirl of swallow and house martin wings. They are hawking around the ...

There are moments in gardening when the spirits lift. When we first moved here four and a half years ago I had had several damson suckers gi...

First and foremost, the Eucryphia, seven feet high and slender as a model, has its first flowers. We did not expect it to flower for a yea...

So this is a conference pear and it is getting bigger. It will be important to pick it whilst still not quite ripe and then let it ripen and...

Before I get to the nutty grutty of this blog let me just thank my daughter I and her husband A for the Plum Ouillans Golden Gage given to u...

Firstly I was just sitting with R and I, nursing a cup of tea after mowing the lawns, when the view made me scurry into the house for the ca...

I am going to start with two pictures of the garden last Saturday. What is it doing this morning - raining! Last Saturday was warm and sunny...

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...