Monty’s month
the year in that it is grey, wet, cold and dank. However, if we get cold, frosty weather then the garden can be transformed. The mud is hard enough to walk on, the air is bright and fresh and the whole garden rimed and glittering with frost; and suddenly all kinds of winter jobs become possible, from pruning to gathering crisp, semi-frozen leaves. I try and gather all of our Christmas decorations from the garden, taking holly from the hedges, where the birds have not eaten all the berries, and mistletoe from the increasingly large bunches growing on the apple trees in the orchard.
