The rain that was promised has arrived which is most fortunate because the poor plants at Bridge Nursery didn’t get watered yesterday. The trouble is that is was very windy so quite a few were blown over. I’m a bit

If anyone reads this and if they were thinking of coming to visit us then I can recommend a stroll round the garden where the roses are wafting their scents which is quite intoxicating. It is still quite wet though

End of May, beginning of June and a beautiful day today but where were the customers? We have an abundance of plants which are good, reliable and some are quite unusual but not enough people coming in to buy them.

We have lots of well grown plants for sale. We use expensive compost and fertilizer and the plants are well watered (a monotonous job). They are also reasonably priced compared with some other nurseries and garden centres. But there are

Its a good thing sometimes that we don’t know what’s coming up in the future. Looking back at my last blog we had no idea that P would end up in hospital for 11 days after the first lot of

The first day of the month was beautiful and sunny after a frosty start. We’ve had so few frosts this winter and -5 degrees c has been the lowest. My daughter and her man came down for the day so

This mildness is most welcome and is bringing many plants into flower rather early compared to the last couple of years. But I don’t trust it. I bet we have some more frosts which will damage the new fresh growth

There is a woman who lives somewhere in Northamptonshire who collects snowdrops. I believe she has many different varieties in her garden. Each year she arrives at the nursery with a selection of snowdrops ‘in the green’ for me. At

I’ve just come back from trying to do a bit of work at the very wet nursery. When the ground is so sodden its not possible to do any gardening which is very irritating because now is the time to

Back in September I took some cuttings of Rosa ‘Seagull’. I did this earlier than usual based on something a friend said and she always has good results. A few weeks after that himself accidentally knocked over one of the