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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Good morning July......
- Good morning, July. It's mid-morning, still frosty, and I'm outside on the patio table with a hot coffee. My two Fred cats are with me in the sun, eyeing each other up (each probably planning a sneaky ambush of the other).
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Perfect?...
- It's a wet, grey day, perfect for watering all my new Agapanthus plantings, not so perfect for gardening. And anyway I have a bagful of new library books (great choices) and a new jigsaw (a tropical rainforest). Naturally I'd really like to be outside in my garden trimming the Gunnera...
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A new relationship!...
- Need a break from my Agapanthus obsession. A trial separation, maybe? I know - go into a completely different garden area. Concentrate on a completely different plant - for example, the Gunnera. Build a new relationship!
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Sorry, sun, but......
- Sorry, sun, but you promised so much, peeping shyly through my dirty winter windows this morning. Out I went with the dogs, only to shiver and creep back into the house. Look - your job is to warm me up. Gently caress my face, that sort of thing...
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MY BIG PLANTING DAY...
- I forget how cold it is in my winter garden after a frost. Things can take all morning to warm up. But I want to be out there gardening. Today was supposed to be MY BIG PLANTING DAY, all day, starting early...
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The end is in sight......
- Good afternoon. Anyone who has been following my journal closely will have read about the collection, division, and replanting of heaps of Agapanthus plants. Woo hoo!
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Agapanthus days......
- Yet more Agapanthus days. Today I spent two hours in the morning dividing and trimming, getting the pieces ready for planting. Then went off to the dentist. Eek...
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More free plants......
- Oh. My. Goodness. This morning we had to pick up our trailer (which family had borrowed). Saw some mature yucca plants sitting on the side of the road, free. Grabbed three of them. Then we stopped to pick up more Agapanthus that had been dug up for me...
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More sun......
- Yeay! The sun is back. Not that the sun ever went anywhere. But the garden is shining and glowing with golden light, and there are interesting shadows on the lawns. Just lovely.
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Winter sun......
- Aha! There is some winter sun at last, after several days of drizzle and rain. Wonderful sun - you remembered me! Am instantly cheered-up. Please don't disappear too soon. Keep me company in the garden...
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Free Agapanthus!...
- Am very excited. Have found a nearby source of free species Agapanthus, already dug up. So far have collected one car-boot load. They are going in the Welcome Garden, the first of my garden areas, between the driveway and the boundary fence. There are many, many more clumps to come, if I want them. And I do!
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Trim the Gunnera......
- All along the water race the Gunnera leaves are turning brown after the recent frosts. 'Tis time for their yearly chop and trim. And so 'tis time for me to experience some semi-naked cold water immersion.
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Gardening and gazing......
- A wonderful way to spend a day - work hard in the garden, use up lots of energy, then sit somewhere and just gaze at the views - or, if in autumn-winter, the flames of the bonfire. Lovely.
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Like a dog with short legs......
- How long now? Only three weeks until the winter solstice. Wow! Time scuttles along like a dog with short legs on a long mission. Take from that silly sentence what you will!
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Nearly mid-winter......
- It's nearly mid-winter, the perfect time to check the garden out. Plants that are in the wrong place are more easily noticed. So are dead branches, and shrubs which are past their use-by date.