The Nook - A Garden Blog

Now we have had the first hard frost we seem to breathe a sigh of relief - autumn is over and winter is here. (This is despite the eucryph...

Wednesday - Wild too, gale blowing, showers, some with hail, spattering the windows, not much above freezing (I know, I know, you that l...

First of all I have no moustache this November as my upper lip is so infertile all I get are wisps, having said that I can curl it like, a...

So autumn winds on and we steel our frozen hands to the manure heap of future growth, load the wheelbarrow and trundle down the hoggin p...

Plenty of birds but not many bees (Jewel Akens?) It is a dark damp November morning and the garden is sodden. I am gazing out of my wind...

So here we go with the red and the orange and the yellow! Maples and liquidambars, hazels and everything, all the colours of autumn....

So the mighty storm has just clipped the southeast corner of England and is all the news. If it had been up here it might have got a men...

This is the garden a week ago before the ash trees started snowing pale yellow leaves. It looks like high summer but you can see the fi...

In fact today is mainly Marrow and Ginger jam (preserve really as it does not set). Recipe later. There are still flowers in the ga...

Today we have going to the gym - we have had going to the gym - we are glad it is over. Today I - well in a minute. Today R went into th...

Before I get onto Ratty and related difficulties, I am sure you can stand the suspense, here is a photo taken from the kitchen doors...

So, you are all an tenterhooks (or asleep) for news of the hunt for Ratty. The trap was set - a giant mouse(rat)trap called Big Cheese. It...