The Nook - A Garden Blog

Not strictly true - of ideas I mean - I have lots of garden ideas but most of them would break the bank. Some parts of the garden are OK...

Or red cheeked face considering the cock pheasant and the grey squirrel feeding together. The squirrel drops bits of peanut and the ph...

RAIIIIIIIIIN!!!! It just keeps raining. It just gets boggy. The lawn is sodden. The sky is leaden. This is not a pome. This is ...

Spring continues to defy winter - the Stinking hellebore is flowering, snowdrops everywhere. Hazel trees out on the Holker Mosses are cove...

Yesterday there was a bumblebee on the winter flowering honeysuckle - in January! It is so mild, it cannot go on. Temperatures 6 to 8C ...

In winter, yes, the predominate colour is green. But, if one can, there are ways to introduce other shades into the garden - like grey. ...

Yes, welcome to the garden of disorganised thought. R thinks we need to call in a designer. She has decided she likes gardens with structu...

We all know the five senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch. But are there more? In a garden sight will predominate - not just col...

Quiz time - what on earth are these? They are not R and my haloes. Answer at the bottom of the blog Now to the blog. No loav...

So it is freezing across the pond whilst over here storms traipse across the garden. In fact the weather is so mild (if wet  and windy) th...