The Nook - A Garden Blog

It has not rained for a week and looks set fair! Here I am talking about lack of rain - for once. Having said that, the lawn in the lowe...

Spawn to Pond 2 en passant! We have our first frogspawn. R was in her shed (The Wendy House) and heard strange noises coming from the p...

So, there we were, staring out of the bathroom window at the banking under the flowering currant (still dormant) and gazing at an earthwor...

And I am going cu-cu? Can't shift manure at the moment - just tweaked my back pushing human hair down mole holes. (Trying to turn the ...

I was counting the birds for the RSPB this morning. Then they all suddenly disappeared! Last year it was a Kestrel, this year I suspect...

Let us hope this cold spell has reduced the sluggery that goes on in the garden every year. Plants are not safe out in the summer. There t...

What can you do when the ground is frozen? We are just above the snow line here at 365 ft and all is rock hard. First wear gloves, two or ...

I am a fogey in a fog - a cold chilling fog - it penetrates to the bone. The trees are long-limbed ghosts, dripping in the mizzle. Ever...

Ah! Here I am again, full of resolutions - to lose weight after the feasting and to do something in the garden every day I can no matte...

By popular request or something here is a bit about our drain/stream/torrent. It rises from the back field and runs through the rough a...

The first picture is the view west from outside the kitchen. I have just noticed a black bottomless flowerpot with a copper band ...

Yes - it snowed - but only one flake thick - on the a frozen garden. In fact the ground is solid and essentially must stayoffable. I...

So, one day we are totally Wellied (waterproof Wellington Boots on for those reading this in Russia) and flooded out - and then a hard fro...

Now, some of you have thought that wearing a waste paper basket on one's head is ridiculous - see last blog. It is the sort of thing ...

In fact, the ash first - we hear much of what will happen to our/my ash woodland but no one has yet mentioned that many of the hedges a...

First the big news - I have come third in the Gardeners' World Magazine Poetry Competition - and won £50 of gardening vouchers. Perhaps...

So our Government has a sense of humour!!! Their advice to gardeners to burn their ash leaves because of this fungus is ...