The Nook - A Garden Blog

I have been contemplating a sit on mower for some time but as the cutting season draws ever nearer I realise that the garden is not made for...

Just a few days of ice and a little snow - hooray for the slugs - or rather not the slugs. The sheep in the back field were fed by the farme...

I have moved a huge peanut feeder to the shed outside my study window and the coal tits love it. The snow/ice is now going and it is foggy a...

At first there was mist over the fields, then it rose and a watery sun tried to pierce the clouds. The lone holly left from the ledge-laying...

I waited and waited and they all went somewhere else until the hour was up - well not quite but later in the day the bird feeders - here alm...

I start with an image of the garden showing the neglect caused by my inability to get out there. Uncut grasses , tangled roses, weeds - the ...

So here I am listening to Barry Maguire singing The Eve of Destruction just after Sonny Boy Williamson's Fattening Frogs for Snakes! Wel...

Second morning of frost and still the marigolds flourish. The warm sun (in colour) lights up the garden as it rises over the shoulder of the...

I have been around the top part of the garden today. There are sticks everywhere (and weeds). The gales have pruned the trees. The garden is...

Not of Tunbridge Wells. For the first time for 5 weeks had a stroll in the garden yesterday, albeit with 2 crutches. So much to do, clear up...

What a mad weather world we live in! Last year all was ice and snow, this year flowers still abound - nasturtiums and marigolds - even the q...

Nothing political, nothing X factor (thank heavens), just nothing much as I am still 90% housebound after the new knee. So to some pics of t...

If one is trapped indoors by a new knee and a pair of crutches, well, actually a pair and a half, how do you write a garden blog? (At this p...

By now I will probably have a new knee - this is written in advance in case I am indisposed for a while. This is the big sycamore - a "...

B is for Blog of course, and beech and for basil,and the backside I ought to get off. With the economy up the drainpipe is it time for the c...

Before the blog proper can I just mention that one of my readers and friend, Keith Fairbairn has died. He will be missed. There are so few t...

Yes, I have been washing trees - the white birches and the eucalyptus. Didn't seem to make much difference though. I read about it in a ...