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We’ve had our fair share of the snow here in Bath. I spent Monday moving pots around in near blizzard conditions at the garden where I work as Head Gardener. I had snowflakes settling on every ripple and fold of my clothes – even on my eyelashes

There is still plenty of snow and ice in my neck of the woods. The ground is so slippery that my parked car slid backwards down the drive today. Despite this rather unnerving incident, I’m really enjoying the latest outbreak of ‘proper’ wintery

The snow was great fun, but it made wildlife watching in my garden a bit pointless. I am rather biased on this, because as far as I'm concerned, wildlife really means insects. OK, there are a few birds and the odd squirrel out there

Oh snow, where were you in London on Christmas day? Why are you here now, hampering our efforts to burn off mince pies through brisk gardening? There's nothing I can do in my garden, except ponder when the compost heap will start breaking down again

Not a lot of gardening has gone on across the nation since we last met. We still have about six inches of snow and I am thankful I have three pairs of my warmest socks, otherwise things might be getting a bit cheesy round here.There is not much

Yesterday at a Gardeners' Question Time recording it was amazing to hear that Eric's Cumbrian plot had only had 5cm of snow. Not so here in Hampshire. The snow is 45-60cm deep and the icicles more than 1m long!What have I been up to during the snowy

I don't think the squirrels liked the snow. Apart from the fact that they found it difficult to retrieve their buried nuts, each time they hopped, they were completely engulfed in the stuff. In south-east London we only had 3 or 4 inches but that

Snow has arrived early in my part of the East Midlands, and in many other areas too. The BBC radio weather forecast this morning summed it up nicely: plunging temperatures, record-breaking conditions, no sign of it letting-up all week.And what

Has the snow been a good or bad thing for our gardens? Well, probably a bit of both, but I do live in hope that the cold weather has helped kill off a few garden pests. We've all had our fair share of snow over the past couple of weeks, with varying

comfort and less space for carrying bags of cement. Last week I sold the most recent Land Rover in order to trade it in for a less thirsty vehicle.Big mistake. Two days later it started snowing and, at the time of writing, we're under about six inches