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 at work today and it was like a spring day. The temperature in the polytunnel

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 plants will simply rot away. There’s no chance of doing any work because its so

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 secateurs, loppers, a rake and fairly thorn resistant gloves, I have been going to the

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 decision was made late last year due to the fact that it really is too

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 forseeable future due to the waterlogged ground. This is a real seback because normally this

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 ground is absolutely saturated and there is plenty of water lying on the surface. Its

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 described as English. Surely if you want to get your message across it would 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 quite a lot of dead and dying branched of our salix triandra. It also happens

Our garden at Bridge Nursery has been open for the National Garden Scheme every day since April. Last year we raised the grand total of £1200 which we were really pleased with. This year our expectations were low due to

Our nursery is quite close to a reservoir and, at this time of year, is on the flight path of what seems like hundreds of Canadian geese. There is usually a considerable amount of noisy honking as they fly overhead.