Has anyone seen any daffodils yet? Not the dwarf early ones, although they have only just opened in the last few days, but the taller ...

Having complained endlessly about the rain and the soggy, boggy garden I find to my surprise that the ground is beginning to dry up. We ...

We have just come back from a few days away in Portugal where we visited friends who live near Portalegre. They picked us up from ...

Its snowing again. The previous lot which fell last Sunday and the previous Friday was just beginning to thaw around the edges. But the temperatures ...

New Year's Day saw us going out for lunch so we missed most of the beautiful and rare sunshine that day. But I've been out ...

I had a brief splashy walk round the garden today which didn't exactly lift my spirits. Its so very water-logged and I wonder how many ...

One frustrated gardener has had to find something to do which can't be gardening because the ground is too wet and claggy. So, armed with ...

last night we travelled over to Ullingham to give a talk on Beautiful Borders. This was the last talk ever and pleased to say. The ...

Its time for me to admit defeat and come to terms with the fact that it will be impossible to do any gardening for the ...

There seems to be very little chance of getting any winter gardening done this year due to the excessive amount of rain we've had. The ...

I wonder why those who wish to try and sell things with multi-spam messages on our blog do not write in anything which could be ...

Does anyone know why some of our willows have canker and die-back? It surely can't be due to lack of rain. Today I cut back ...