The Nook - A Garden Blog

The nettles are six feet high up at the top of the garden, intertwined with brambles and goosegrass. I have cleared out the streams that ha...

First two examples of the abundance of yellow and orange in the garden - Golden rod - a common flower not loved by all but a golden glow i...

Before we get under way first a happy birthday to my cousin Adrian in Nelson, NZ. It is good to have someone who is always a little older ...

So we walked down to the veg beds where the buddleia, pruned early in the year as usual, has exploded in flower - and it was covered in h...

The trees in the wood have become very large and on a gloomy day hang over the garden like a dark cloud of foliage. On the other hand I h...

So - home again from Wales and it is cold - 12C today - and raining ++. Everything is overgrown. Weedy paths and weedy beds and weedy pa...