The Nook - A Garden Blog

R is out judging the Rusland garden competition with her friend J. 20 gardens to judge and, if her opinion of what I do here is anything t...

There is a door to heaven from our living room and it has been largely shut these last seven years - until this July. It has been open mo...

So, straight in with poppies, papery petals, fantastic colours and they sow themselves whither they wish. Just as the main roses go ov...

This is the crambe in full flood (the big things in front are Cardoons). The crambe is now going over, as  are some of the roses ...

I have wild parts of the garden - try to accommodate wildlife, but sometimes it is a struggle. The gooseberry sawfly have finally stripped...

Today we have cutting of grass. Last week we had cutting of grass. Next week we will have cutting of grass. To quote Molesworth - 'T...

Here I am blogging away for ages and now R and her mates have just started a blogging online soap opera and are in the papers and on the te...

. . . if I know why I am blogging away about an unruly jungle turned into a monster by the manure I covered it with. And then the bits that...

Another bird has died - flew into the kitchen window - a female blackbird. So sad but happens every year despite moving some feeders furthe...

Sometimes words are not enough. The garden is bursting with colour whichever way I look. Nuff said.

R was up about 5 with Cawthwaite.com going around and around in her cranium. She made tea. I woke and, as usual, went to the window - rabbi...