Recent Garden News
Head Gardener
The Recent Garden News page displays the fifteen most recent additions to Mooseys Country Garden. This should help visitors keep up with what's going on in my garden.
Gardens are always growing and changing - there's always something new to see. And, as I love writing about my garden almost as much as being in it, there'll always be some new Moosey ramblings to read, or new pictures to look at. Perhaps the garden activities of my summer will warm up a northern hemisphere gardener's winter days. I know how much I enjoy my mid-winter garden visits to summery places.
Two weeks can be a long time in the life of a garden. There's inevitably some repetition, so please be understanding if I'm saying the same things over and over again. I hope you'll enjoy seeing what I've been working on recently...
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The Active Rose...
- The Active - what a strange name for a rose! But a rather lovely rose, a seedling of the old rose Mutabilis, bred by Ken Nobbs of Te Kauwhata, New Zealand in 1985.
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Ramble on......
- Rambling Rector is rambling away on the boundary fence in full flower. What a sweet rose he is. So strong. So resilient (his only watering comes from rain). Dare I say he is manly?
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Peaceful......
- It's early morning, and I'm ready, dressed in my gardening shirt and shorts. I've already sat with Minimus (RIP) to have breakfast. It's so peaceful in the garden by her rusty cat statue. She and I are both at peace now.
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Rhythms......
- Sunday morning rhythms - singing the perky, accented patterns in Byrd's 3-Part Mass. In the garden afterwards, things are much more languid 'A piacere' sitting in the veggie patch scooping dirt around, shuffling slowly backwards on my bottom (and nearly losing my gardening shorts, which are too loose).
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Jacquenetta Rose...
- I finally have a firm rose ID for the rather large single pale apricot rose growing in the Wattle Woods : Jacquenetta. For some years she struggled in the shade. But last year three of the large Wattle trees came down (their decision, not mine). Let there be light! And there is - much more light, much more suitable for roses to flourish...
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Poor fingers!...
- Gardening is very hand and finger intensive - well, the way I garden certainly is, with my tools of choice being breadknives, scissors, and steak knives. Always interesting when I try to play some fast Haydn on the piano. Mind you, secateurs are just as bad.
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Only one rose?...
- A random thought while I continue to process my squillions of early November rose photographs. If I only grew one rose, for example the luscious Pat Austin, I would keep track of her flowering progress, and check her every day. Thus I would enjoy seeing her very first bud, and the very first full open flower.
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Claire Rose...
- Claire Rose has had me puzzled for some years. I thought she was the fluffy pink rose growing near my glass-house. In my memories she was an early bred David Austin English rose. But then I wondered if I'd made it all up...
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A perfect gardening day......
- Some days I spend ages taking photographs and producing pretty garden pictures, when I should be actually working in the garden. For example, today - the weather is benign, the sun has been shining, and there's no wind. Oh yes, a perfect gardening day. So where have I been? And what have I been doing? Oops.
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The garden is faster!...
- Have had a revelation. Of course in November I feel slower. But it's an illusion. I'm not slower, the garden is faster! More light, more growth, more flowers, more weeds, more work, and so on. Phew! Now I feel much better.
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Slow?...
- Some days I am a really slow gardener. So slow that I wonder - just a little - am I actually getting slower? Less of the andante, more of the largo? Larghissimo? Eek!
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A colourful month!...
- After a busy singing weekend I have plenty of time to be in my garden. November is such a colourful month with irises, roses, lupins galore, and the mid to late season rhododendrons. Lots of noisy birds and busy bees are out and about.
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Some real work......
- Back to some real work in the garden. I've been spending lots of time on music - rehearsals, writing scores, and so on. Need to clear my head and stop feeling so sad. Refresh myself with some beauty from my lovely garden.
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RIP Minimus...
- It's cold, with wintry sleet, almost snowing. I am back from the vet. Sadly, I've laid Minimus (my lovely little grey cat) to rest in the garden by the cottage, with chopped up forget-me-nots sprinkled all around her.
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Scrappy and moochy......
- Some days in the garden are purposeful and focussed. Some days are just scrappy and moochy. Such is today. Mainly because Minimus my cottage cat is not doing so well.