Over the weekend, while the weather was almost agreeable, I took the opportunity to start the winter clearing. I am generally a very tidy person and I can’t tolerate the …

I really, really hate it when the weekend weather is wet, cold and miserable and I can’t go outside and do something useful in the garden. Then, to rub salt …

It’s been very quiet on the gardening front. There’s nothing to do. It’s been very cold recently and the ground was frozen solid, the last place I wanted to be …

Over the weekend we had a rather cold night that led to a very frosty morning. While the sun was shining I took a couple of photos of some of …

In the front garden there’s a very small and rather underwhelming evergreen shrub. It’s less than a foot high, has dark glossy leaves with pointed tips and for much of …

I have mentioned that I have a greenhouse of sorts every so often in these posts but haven’t said much about it. It isn’t a large, grand Victorian affair, it …

A few days ago I spent some time tidying up the front border in the front garden while the weather was mild. The hebes were trying to claim the pavement …

So today is the last day of 2011 and I think I spent it rather well. There was a trip around the local garden centre in the afternoon. I looked …