These photographs were taken today as the snow was falling. The garden is very much a work in progress. The bundle of snow covered stones will soon become a wall with an arched entrance to the greenhouse, cold frames and a potager / herb / viola garden.

These rose hips are from a wild rose that self seeded and is now scrambling up a self seeded cherry tree which is now about 20 feet tall. A clematis has also scrambled up to the top of the tree. This was once a flat flower bed dug out from the lawn about 28 years ago. The cherry tree self seeded in 1984.

I suppose this gardening blog will be looking forwards from today as each corner of the garden progresses and backwards too with some photographs of the corners of untamed wilderness.

The summerhouse still has no heating installed so The Christmas Turkey has been put in there for safe keeping. It’s a fresh turkey that will probably be a frozen one by tomorrow.
The upright green pole in front of the summerhouse is a long-handled fork frozen into the ground. I’d left it there after planting tulip bulbs the day before it snowed.

Photo taken with iPhone. Photographer me.