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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

white and clean and beautiful and the garden has no visible imperfections. On the other hand it can be jolly inconvenient and I think I'm just a little bit bored of being snowed in: I wonder how long until we get cabin fever and start hallucinating

to deal with snow, machines that scoop, flush, heap and spread it, so it is not too much of an inconvenience.For gardeners, however, it is a slightly different matter when your entire garden is submerged under two metres of snow for a substantial part

Do you have an autumn clear-up in your garden? Do you cut down all your herbaceous stuff so that everything is tidy for the winter or do you leave everything until the new year? Most people nowadays leave it until later to give food for small birds

is perhaps not a film noted for its horticulture, being much more concerned with casual dismemberment. However, there is a wonderful scene in a snow-covered Japanese garden. Admittedly it ends up spattered in scarlet, but it looks good up until then

a very pretty white flower. However, all this is about to change as, my friend Cleve West will be forgoing his Christmas dinner, in order that his parsnips are flowering in time to be included in the Chelsea Flower Show garden he is designing

The snow has, at least temporarily, left us. It took a long time to go, but now even the grubby snowdrifts lurking in the shelter of cold woods have finally melted, leaving weird bits of stranded debris.The loveliness and gorgeous all

what is going on.Snow is forecast so the Kodak moments are only going to get better.So even if you can't do much gardening at this time of year, at least get out there and take some photographs. In the words of  Telly Savalas in his extraordinarily

I have just ordered a whopping great pile of manure. A couple of weeks ago we finished cutting everything back and hunting down any perennial weeds that were hiding beneath the plants in readiness for mulching: had it not snowed we would have

and there are flurries of snow whipping off the roofs, and a rather disgruntled chicken is scuffling about like a well-wrapped babushka haggling in a street market in Minsk.Gardeners are obsessed with weather. It’s often too dry, too wet, too cold, too hot, not snowy