The moles come in from the stock field next to the garden and my terrier likes trying to dig them up.

Not very popular as I have to resow a section of lawn every year and she still has not caught a mole. 

She does however keep the garden rabbit free.

My latest problem is pheasants which decimate newly planted herbaceous plants. I have sedums reduced to one leaf. So coming season, I am learning to work with the pheasants.

I have been gardening at home since I extended the house in 1999.  The soil is extremely poor, I claim it is a glacial moraine and so is very stony.  I have spent a lot of time getting good quality farmyard manure in to the garden to enrich it.  Luckily our cattle produce it regardless.

I am more interested in the plants than in the planting and so it is an eclectic mix.

I pick up plants all over the place and try them out. If they can survive in my garden, I might try them out in one of my client's gardens.

I have a small wooden greenhouse which I love.  This winter I did not heat it and still have more plants than I can cope with.  So a good investment and it gives me a great deal of pleasure.

The Winter of 2010 has been appalling. I will be interested to see what comes up in the coming weeks. Snowdrops peeped up and then disappeared again - I don't blame them. I think we had night time temperatures of minus zero or lower until mid March. No rain though, and only two big dumps of snow!