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Recent happenings in the Moosey summer garden.

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The Garden News page displays the fifteen most recent additions to Mooseys Country Garden. It is an attempt to restore some order to the site and to help regular visitors know what is going on.

Gardens are always growing and changing - there's always something new going on. 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 summer here 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, especially now that the head gardener is a happily semi-retired person (hopefully not being too boring). There is a certain pattern of repetition in gardening, though, so please be understanding if I'm saying the same things over and over again!

If you're a regular or a return visitor to my garden you can see what I've been working on recently...

Moosey's Country Garden News

2012 February Week 2 - More Garden Journal Sunday, 12th Feb 2012.: Bach chamber music... Ooh, goody! What a groovy way to start the day. And my lovely flautist has presented me with a huge bag of daffodil bulbs, too. Yippee - fat bulbs! And a bag of freshly picked plums. This buay late-summer life is good.
2012 February Week 2 Garden Journal Saturday, 11th Feb 2012.: Oh dear - how the mighty have fallen. I've had a hemi-demi-semi-crisis of confidence regarding the size of my one-woman country garden. Hmm... Could it be - perhaps, possibly, maybe - a little too big for me? Aargh!
Furry Gardening Friends - Cat, Dog, Kitten Cats & Dogs Friday, 10th Feb 2012.: It's rare day that I go gardening on my own - usually a furry friend (or two) tags along. This summer a mismatched trio are my constant gardening companions - a tiny black and white kitten, a large fluffy ginger cat, and a shaved border collie dog with a 'pouff' tail.
Upcoming Events Garden News Wednesday, 8th Feb 2012.: Aha! Now that my gardening summer is past its middle, so to speak, it's time to be thinking about on-going improvements. Perhaps I need a huge new digging project somewhere. Somewhere that can be irrigated, I mean. This summer sun can be hot, hot, hot!
2012 February Week 1 - Yet More Garden Journal Tuesday, 7th Feb 2012.: Ha! I am the Queen of Soil Restoration and Enrichment. Compost, rotting leaves, bags of horse manure, ash, mulch... You name it, I've got it and I'm applying it to my garden. It's time I did something nice for the soil.
Yellow Spiky Dahlia Island Garden Border Sunday, 5th Feb 2012.: The Island Bed should be renamed the Dahlia Bed - at least in the heat of mid-summer. Many original plain red dahlias are flowering by this time, as well as this bright yellow spiky flowered variety.
2012 February Week 1 - More Garden Journal Saturday, 4th Feb 2012.: The gardening world always feels hemispherical when I start planting daffodil bulbs. Gardening friends 'up there' are enjoying their first daffodils in bloom, while I've got 650 recycled bulbs still to plant. My garden will be springing some surprises in seven months time!
2012 February Week 1 Garden Journal Thursday, 2nd Feb 2012.: Shape-Up-For-Life gardeners do NOT complain in their gardening journals about how hungry they are. They simply pat their middle bits (discretely) inside the gardening shorts (not the favourite ones, which are too tight) and sigh wistfully. And then they go gardening.
2012 End of January Garden Journal Tuesday, 31st Jan 2012.: The retired older-woman's Monday is so restful. The dishes are done, Scarlatti tinkles away on the stereo, my dog is slumped in his chair snoring, the cats are lounging, all fed and relaxing - no, wait! I've shut the kitten outside by mistake. Eek!
Kniphofias - Red Hot Pokers Perennial Plants Sunday, 29th Jan 2012.: Those quintessential country fence-line perennial clumpers, Kniphofias (Red Hot Pokers), have long been on my garden's 'Perhaps Not' list. Too coarse, too rudely orange perhaps? Well, well - I've finally seen the light.
2012 January Week 4 - Yet More Garden Journal Sunday, 29th Jan 2012.: Ridiculous. Two days later and I'm still feeling sad having been outbid in a garden gnome auction. I've had to speak severely to self. Moosey, be thankful that losing some scruffy garden gnomes is all you've got to be sad about. Foolish oldish woman!
2012 January Week 4 - More Garden Journal Friday, 27th Jan 2012.: A big day - garden visitors are coming! Already, before breakfast, the Shrubbery paths are cleared. And now I'm having a pile of peanut butter toast, while my big musical passion - Brahms's piano concerto (B flat major) - plays really loud. Hee hee.
2012 January Week 4 Garden Journal Tuesday, 24th Jan 2012.: It's a chamber music morning, and we are playing two (TWO! Oh joy!) Bach Trio Sonatas. Our trio needs a name. Head Gardener, Non-Gardening Partner, Flautist Friend... Hmm... Nothing springs to mind. HGNGPFF? Nope. The Moosey Garden Trio? A bit self-centred...
The Fairy Rose Modern Shrub Roses Sunday, 22nd Jan 2012.: I talk about The Fairy rose all the time - yet up until now I've never bothered to take many photographs! This beautiful soft pink rose is certainly taken for granted in my summer garden.
Moosey News : January 2012 Garden News Saturday, 21st Jan 2012.: This year, 2012, I'm going to try really hard to publish the newsletter at the end of the third week of each month. So far, so good! Happy New Year, and all the best for this new gardening year we will share.