Recent Garden News
What's New?
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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Mothers' Day Gifts......
- How nice! It's another 'Bring-a-Mouse-Inside for Mothers' Day' day. The cat-mother is me and the cat is Histeria the tabby. Hmm... Would I possibly prefer a bouquets of flowers and a gourmet brunch?
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Out of Love?...
- Alas, my love affair with free clumps of Agapanthus is losing its intensity. I'm slowly getting them planted, but I'm disenchanted with the process. Slice a chunk off with the spade, scissor off the dead leaves and chop them into mulch pieces, trim the roots, dig the hole, squash and push... Aargh! It's over!
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Weather-sensible......
- This week I have been very weather-sensible. I was supposed to be on a five day trip in the big mountains, hiking the St James Walkway. But the rivers were 'up', one bridge was 'down', and there were eleven slips on the first day of the track. Hmm... Next summer, maybe? Anyway, there's lots of gardening to do before winter arrives.
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A, B, or C?...
- Here's a multi-choice gardening question for the start of May. It needs to be answered very, very carefully. Why does it take me five hours to divide and plant two large clumps of species Agapanthus? Choose one of the following: A, B, or C.
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Introducing the Hen House Garden...
- Imagine an old wooden hen house, charmingly rustic, nestled under huge gum trees, with the sounds of nearby running water. Rugosa roses spread their flowers through a border filled with evergreens. Across a mulched path majestic Phormiums sway, while bees buzz around lavenders and Oak trees stretch slowly skyward. Hmm...
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Filming the Moosey Garden...
- It's going to be a funny sort of day. A film crew is here to do some filming (as film crews do) for Mr (Ms?) Google. I'm wearing my favourite blue gardening shirt, and I've brushed my hair. And guess what? It's raining cats and dogs outside. So I am about to be filmed typing up my journal...
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Duck Lawn in Autumn...
- Duck Lawn is one of the most peaceful lawns in the Moosey garden. Because of Rusty the dog it is now duckless, so a tired gardener and attendant cat can rest here without him barking and disturbing nature.
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Moosey News : April 2013...
- The garden has seen rather a lot of me lately. April has been a great working month, with lots of photographs of plants, gardens, cats and the dog, and the autumn bonfire...
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Dear April......
- Dear April, Thank you so much for being such a groovy month. You've certainly been my best April for a while. All that lovely sunshine, and you've allowed the lawns to go green again. And your trees! Thanks for the beautifully coloured leaves. Yours in appreciation, Moosey
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When in doubt, don't dig......
- OK. Let's evaluate things. I have a trailer-load of Agapanthus clumps. I have an idea for a huge new garden, wherein they could be planted. But do I really want to be digging until mid-winter? It would keep me warm... When in doubt, don't dig, I reckon.
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Interviewing a famous gardener......
- I've got into a silly gardening habit. While burning the autumn bonfire I conduct long, in-depth interviews with myself. I pretend I'm a famous gardener, poke at the flames with my rake, ask myself all sorts of daft questions, and then answer them out loud. A little light madness?
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Lady of Megginch Rose...
- Last winter I allowed myself to buy some new David Austin roses. The name 'Lady of Megginch' leapt out of the catalogue. I immediately put her on my list, imagining a lady most mysterious, magical, mediaeval... But no. This 'Lady' is the late Baroness Strange...
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Too wet to garden......
- It's too wet to garden. But not too wet to go for a country drive to pick up thirty Allium bulbs (tiny ones), and pop into the rose nursery on the way back - just to check things out, nothing too serious. To be kind to Non-Gardening Partner I really should take my own wallet...
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I Love Autumn....
- Ooh, autumn! I love you to bits! I've been sitting on the cottage verandah watching Minimus my cottage cat chasing the autumn leaves fluttering gently down from the Silver Birch. Actually, it looks more like a 'Golden Birch', leaf-wise...
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So Random......
- Sometimes my animals are so random. For some reason known only to ginger cats - a specific phase of the moon, perhaps? - Percy spent all of last night leaping in and out of my cottage window. 'Kerplunk! Crunch... Kerplunk!' he'd go, waking me up each time...