Moosey's Gardening Newsletter Archives

Catch up on all the back issues of my monthly gardening newsletter. They are full of features both regular and irregular - like the Moosey plant of the month, and the funniest search engine phrases which have sent people to the Moosey website. The favourite Moosey photographic image for each month is now a mere one click away!

The Moosey animals get a monthly feature, too. And there's quite a bit of dipping in and out of the Moosey journals - I tend to write up every gardening move in the finest, yawniest detail. You'll often find a lot of impressive lists of things to do, followed by lists of things actually done, plus a detailed breakdown and analysis of what, why and why not...

So the newsletter should keep you comfortably in touch with what's new and improved in the garden and on the website. I hope you enjoy it.

Moosey News back issues

Moosey News : July 2005...
Fri 1st Jul 2005

The first edition of my garden newsletter took rather a long time in creation - a bit like my homemade compost. I hope you'll like it.

Moosey News : August 2005...
Mon 1st Aug 2005

Hello again from the Moosey garden, still snoozing gently through the southern hemisphere winter of 2005. The August newsletter is a prelude to spring, when the first beautiful camellias and daffodils will start flowering. I hope you enjoy this month's links and ideas.

Moosey News : September 2005...
Thu 1st Sep 2005

The Moosey garden is busy 'springing' into action! The days are getting longer, the air is getting warmer - this is a most exciting time of the year, full of promises. For example, I promise to finish all the weeding, I promise to finish the rose pruning...

Moosey News : October 2005...
Tue 4th Oct 2005

It's October already! How can this be? My garden-time is racing by. Either the hours in a day are shrinking, or I am slowing down in the spring garden! It must be all that weeding I'm doing...

Moosey News : November 2005...
Wed 2nd Nov 2005

Welcome to the November issue of the Moosey gardening newsletter. The birds are twittering in the trees, and the head-gardener is twittering in her journals - it's early summer! Flowers, colour, roses! Enjoy!

Moosey News : December 2005...
Sat 3rd Dec 2005

Welcome to the December newsletter. December in the Moosey Garden means summer - blue skies, barbecues, and getting the borders and lawns ready for Christmas. Where-ever you are I hope you are enjoying warm sunny feelings about your garden too.

Moosey News : January 2006...
Fri 6th Jan 2006

I hope that the year 2006 brings you everything you desire and need - for your garden, and for your soul. Things like energy for weeding, and motivation for gardening planning and lists of new garden ideas...

Moosey News : February 2006...
Sat 4th Feb 2006

Are you interested in yet more outpourings of new garden plans and schemes, catalogued obsessions with compost, moans about sore hands, and intimate details of Rusty's dog-diet? Then welcome to the February Moosey newsletter!

Moosey News : March 2006...
Wed 1st Mar 2006

March is my very first month as a fully retired gardener. Hee hee! Will I get bored? No way! Will I produce even more detailed journal pages, recording every retired moment? Hmm... I suspect March will be a most interesting month.

Moosey News : April 2006...
Sat 1st Apr 2006

Please ignore all my moans and groans about rubbish burning this month! The Moosey Garden is not quite ready to cope with Autumn. However, Autumn has definitely arrived! Gardeners can easily misbehave and panic at this time of the gardening year.

Moosey News : May 2006...
Tue 2nd May 2006

It's amazing to think that as Autumn 'digs in' here other gardening friends are waking up to spring flowers. I hope you'll find something nicely seasoned to enjoy in my May newsletter!

Moosey News : June 2006...
Mon 5th Jun 2006

This month's newsletter is a tale of two hemispheres. You can decide whether to join me on my quick trip to summery England, or warm your winter-cold gardening hands by the New Zealand log burner. You'll need your wet weather gear, whichever option you choose...

Moosey News : July 2006...
Wed 5th Jul 2006

This newsletter comes to you from mid-winter in New Zealand, and will absolutely not be filled with gardener-gloom! The three words 'tree', 'damage' and 'snow' are not allowed to feature in any one sentence!

Moosey News : August 2006...
Wed 2nd Aug 2006

My winter garden has perked up - the sun is definitely trying harder to warm up the plants (and the Head Gardener). There's still not much colour, though - so I've tried to make the August newsletter as colourful as possible...

Moosey News : September 2006...
Sun 10th Sep 2006

Welcome to September's newsletter. The Moosey newsletters have been running now for over a year, and this month's features a Samoan-style change of garden scenery.

Moosey News : October 2006...
Wed 4th Oct 2006

Welcome to October's newsletter. There are many new things happening in the garden - new trees, new chooks, new plants, new flowers... I have far too much to do, and far too much to say about the doing!

Moosey News : November 2006...
Sat 11th Nov 2006

Summer's nearly here - what a dynamic time to be in the garden! I'm afraid to blink (or have a day off with my walking group) in case I miss something. Hope you enjoy this November newsletter.

Moosey News : December 2006...
Sat 9th Dec 2006

We rush towards the longest day, while northern hemisphere gardeners have quietly packed away their hand diggers. Those who garden 'in-between' must think we are all quite silly - it's either too cold or too hot for us to garden!

Moosey News : January 2007...
Tue 9th Jan 2007

All the best for the year 2007. Let's all hope that nothing extreme happens in our gardens, or out there in the big wide world. And let's all keep gardening madly, planning and plotting, creating and weeding, and enjoying ourselves! Have a great gardening year!

Moosey News : February 2007...
Sat 3rd Feb 2007

Eek! One whole month of 2007 has passed me by, and I've never done as little gardening in a summer month as I have this month. Whatever happened to those New Year's Resolutions? I'll have to rewrite them and start all over...

Moosey News : March 2007...
Tue 6th Mar 2007

Lots of gardening fringe things are sprouting and growing like weeds! But my garden itself languishes lazily in the summer heat, and half the garden tasks get half finished. Trouble is, I've gone off writing lists...

Moosey News : April 2007...
Wed 4th Apr 2007

The autumn weather is warm and settled, and so is the atmosphere in my garden - hopefully this is not the lull before any nasty winter storms! I'm doing lots of little things in the garden - trying to think small, and act sensibly!

Moosey News : May 2007...
Thu 3rd May 2007

May is almost a winter month for me. There's no more early morning garden wandering (too dark) and by five o'clock all sensible gardeners will be freshly showered, enjoying some pre-dinner relaxation. A great month to start writing lists...

Moosey News : June 2007...
Sun 3rd Jun 2007

The Moosey Semi-Grand Global Garden Tour is finally happening! I've got so much planned - so many gardens to see, and gardening friends to visit. Goodbye to the New Zealand winter. Please don't do anything extreme, though, while I'm away!

Moosey News : July 2007...
Sat 21st Jul 2007

I'm back from visiting beautiful summer gardens, full of great ideas, writing lists as I sit inside by the log-burner. My own garden is sleeping, in semi-hibernation - it's wet and rather cold. But I'm home! Yippee!

Moosey News : August 2007...
Sun 5th Aug 2007

I've been busy pruning my three hundred existing roses, as well as cramming new ones into my car. The Moosey hands (and legs) are getting just a little scratched. Oops.

Moosey News : September 2007...
Sun 9th Sep 2007

Great Excitements - the first yellow daffodil, the first pink Camellia. Great Expectations - the newly planted roses, the beautiful new paths. Great Efforts - newly dug gardens, new pots. And Great Anticipations - what will Non-Gardening Partner get me for my gardening birthday?

Moosey News : October 2007...
Sun 7th Oct 2007

Of course it's spring in the garden here. The waves of spring things are as follows - blossom, camellias, daffodils and new lambs - followed by rhododendrons, and the first stirring of the perennials and irises. I love spring!

Moosey News : November 2007...
Mon 5th Nov 2007

Spring is such a fast season, with so many wonderful changes. New ideas, new plans - that means new mistakes to giggle at. And so many new weeds to see to!

Moosey News : December 2007...
Mon 3rd Dec 2007

December is here again - how time flies when one is busy having fun in the garden, or reading gardening books and making lists inside. All the best for this Christmas month.

Moosey News : January 2008...
Sat 12th Jan 2008

I always make New Year's Resolutions, like every good gardener should, and naturally they are immediately thrown on the compost heap with all the other Moosey weeds. I hope you have more success with yours!

Moosey News : February 2008...
Thu 14th Feb 2008

Another gardening year is zooming by, and I'm spending more and more time in my garden. Where will this end? I will start growing leaves and branches like my favourite summer shrubs!

Moosey News : March 2008...
Sun 2nd Mar 2008

It's a remarkably rosy newsletter this month, considering that summer is almost at an end. But I'd rather show off my roses than talk about weeding, and burning the gum tree rubbish...

Moosey News : April 2008...
Fri 4th Apr 2008

The seasons have definitely changed in my garden. Goodbye summer, hello autumn, or should I call you 'fall'?

Moosey News : May 2008...
Sat 3rd May 2008

It's the grand clean-up month in my garden, as autumn moves into winter. Hopefully there'll still be time (and good weather) for some decent May adventures.

Moosey News : June 2008...
Fri 6th Jun 2008

June in the Moosey garden is the first officially cold month. But this gardener is determined not to get the winter blues. I've got huge plans for new garden features...

Moosey News : July 2008...
Tue 1st Jul 2008

Winter - no problem! Sensible gardeners wear layers of thermal underwear, slurp lots of hot drinks, and if they get too cold they split some firewood. And they absolutely don't grump or complain...

Moosey News : August 2008...
Thu 7th Aug 2008

Already I'm finding small pockets of spring flower colour. There's more daylight, the sun's higher in the sky - spring is definitely coming to the Moosey Garden. Yippee! I don't want to miss anything new...

Moosey News : September 2008...
Wed 3rd Sep 2008

So far, so good - the Moosey newsletter is still growing well. September's a very springy month - if you're a northern hemisphere reader you shouldn't mind, though. What a good excuse to order in new spring bulbs and blossom trees...

Moosey News : October 2008...
Sun 5th Oct 2008

It's all change in the garden this month - I hope I can keep up with the pace. Gardeners like to change things, but sometimes nature changes things far too quickly. Hurry up - no, slow down, please!

Moosey News : November 2008...
Sat 8th Nov 2008

Spring is turning into summer, and suddenly there are beautiful things everywhere I look in the garden. As long as I'm not wearing my long-distance spectacles, that is - there's nothing wrong with a little fuzzy garden vision.

Moosey News : December 2008...
Sat 6th Dec 2008

All the best for the month of December, whether you're outside gardening or snug inside dreaming and planning the garden of your dreams. And all the best for the festive Christmas season.

Moosey News : January 2009...
Fri 9th Jan 2009

Please let's all have a good 2009 - a year where we do our very best to enjoy our gardens, our friends and families. A year where we plan wisely, and try not to spend too much of the housekeeping money at the plant sales. But we are allowed to get the garden giggles every now and then!

Moosey News : February 2009...
Sat 14th Feb 2009

Oops - it's almost halfway through February. Gardening time flies even faster than normal time. I hope your garden is sleeping soundly, relaxing regally, or growing gorgeously.

Moosey News : March 2009...
Fri 20th Mar 2009

I've agreed to the Garden Club visiting the Moosey Garden, so there is much frenetic weeding (and soul-searching) going on. And Minimus the wild woodshed kitten has totally reinvented himself - he's the tamest, smoochiest house kitten ever!

Moosey News : April 2009...
Mon 20th Apr 2009

Autumn is here! That means that spring is there, in the balance of southern to northern gardening life. Mind you, I've never gardened in the tropics, where the days are the same length. I'd need my tropical garden to be air conditioned!

Moosey News : May 2009...
Sun 17th May 2009

I've been doing far more work on the Moosey website than in the Moosey Garden these last weeks. The autumn leaves will not oblige my raking plans by all falling down at once. But - there is hope - a short summery holiday in the USA! Phew!

Moosey News : June 2009...
Sun 14th Jun 2009

Much of what I've got to say this month involves reminiscing about my summer break in the North-eastern USA (and Canada). Funny how short trips can leave such huge memories! Mind you, a summer sojourn compared to the Moosey mid-winter month...

Moosey News : July 2009...
Sat 1st Aug 2009

This month's newsletter spans two winter months (June and July) in the life of the Moosey garden and web-site. I've been extra busy trying to sort out my wintry garden. So the best way to catch up the time is to squash up all the news? Hmm...

Moosey News : August 2009...
Fri 4th Sep 2009

This newsletter is full of the joys of spring - such an amazing season, one which the gardener can get totally wrapped up in. Please be prepared for much spring gushing - which may seem odd if you're coming face to face with fall or autumn...

Moosey News : September 2009...
Sun 4th Oct 2009

The garden is springing along nicely, and every week something new pops up to be enjoyed. How lucky am I to be able to garden full-time. I'm working harder for longer hours than I've ever done before, though - I love it!

Moosey News : October 2009...
Sat 31st Oct 2009

Rhododendrons, Aquilegias, and the first Roses are filling the Moosey Garden with flowery hope. There's been a lot of late spring rain, too, so everything is luscious and green. It's looking quite lovely!