Here we are in December already! With Christmas on the horizon and still lots of tasks to do both in the nursery and admin before the end of the year, the work and the task list never get less. I am slowly catching up with jobs at home too, that too never gets any less when you are renovating and living in an old neglected house. But we are looking forward to Christmas with our family and spending time together.
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With christmas comes a plague of teddies every year,
it keeps David entertained |
A busy day in the nursery beating most of the showers. Another wildflower bank strimmed, only one more to go, thanks David for all your hard work. I also dug out all the Filipendula Elegans at the entrance to the woodland garden, its beginning to get too big for the space and now that the goat willow has been cut down, I want to do more to make the entrance to the woodland garden more interesting. We were closely supervised by Maisie the nursery dog as you can see. I’m not sure where I’m going to replant the Filiendula yet, one for my wide away 3am musings………
In its place we planted the lovely Acer griseum we had to dig up from the topiary garden last year. It will make a great feature as you turn into the woodland garden with its flaky papery bark and fabulous autumn colour. I’m going to under plant it with more woodland ground cover, any excuse to source more fab hardy woodland plants 
I had a morning in my own garden, out in the back garden cutting back and tidying the back garden border. I don't usually do this at this time of year but the compost heap is over flowing and needs turned and the bags of last years compost need emptied. The plants will be insulated from the cold under the compost and it frees up room behind the summer house to turn the bin again. The weather this December has been wet and windy, and occasionally unseasonally warm, not a festive breath of cold to be seen or felt.
We had a lovely festive evening with Andrew and Linda and friends in their lovely cosy cottage. Maisie as usual made herself at home and was spoiled. Food by Andrew was excellent and the company great as always.
We had our second pop up shop on the 6th at Whitmuir with David Dodds Author and Quercus festive gifts and then on Sunday 7th we were in the Drill Hall in Peebles with David's books and my cards, a lovely day catching up with folks we know and selling.
Quercus and David at Whitmuir
In the Drill Hall in Peebles on the Sunday
The country was battered by another storm on Tuesday and into Wednesday, fortunately we suffered no damage at the nursery apart from a loose bit of plastic on a corner of tunnel 4 which was easily fixed. Another couple of slates of the house roof however, so we will need to call the roofer soon, to get them all back on.
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| Maisie making sure I'm doing a good job on the new website..... |
I’ve spent time over the last couple of weeks updating the plant lists on our website for next year. These are of course dependent on not losing plants over winter to weather, lost polytunnels, voles, hares and anything else nature throws at us. I will be adding more plants in spring once I know what else we will have in stock for trees, shrubs, climbers etc 
I’ve also done the biggest update to the website in a while, updated text, updated photos, info and more. If you notice any links etc not working let me know. It’s a huge piece of work to update the website so its likely something has been missed 
This is all working towards a brand new website coming in 2026. This is an exciting big step forward for Quercus and as with the new tunnels long over due but will make a huge difference to the business. The new website will be mobile friendly (necessary these days), much more up to date in so many ways, I’m really excited to get this huge job on the to do list started. I am doing it myself, so it won’t happen overnight, but it has been started. So as they say watch this space
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