Recent Garden News

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

November Week 1 - Yet More
Garden Journal
Friday, 6th Nov 2009.

I am not a boring, predictable person! Today I do things in a different order - piano first, then breakfast, then gardening. I might even finish my digging project later this afternoon, when the sun has sunk a bit.

November Week 1 - More
Garden Journal
Wednesday, 4th Nov 2009.

Hee hee hee. Checking first with Non-gardening Partner (whose response was typically mannish - do I really want more of those?) I have 'bought' three monster Cordylines for one dollar. He will help me dig them out this weekend.

November Week 1
Garden Journal
Monday, 2nd Nov 2009.

Hello, November - the New, Now, Never-Mind-About-the-Weeds gardening month. For this is the month when summer rolls in, the sun shines down, and everything in the garden grows - and grows - and grows...

Moosey News : October 2009
Garden News
Saturday, 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!

End of October
Garden Journal
Friday, 30th Oct 2009.

So yesterday the hedge trimmer spent four hours on the Moosey property. Today the Head Gardener starts four days - or is that four weeks? - cleaning up the mess. Stand by for some extremely boring gardening journal writing!

October Week 4 - Yet More
Garden Journal
Wednesday, 28th Oct 2009.

Yippee - I love my garden! What shall I do first? Weeding, or weeding, or weeding? I'd much rather be planting - I've got several shrubs and a Skunk Cabbage to find places for.

1997 Visit to Hestercombe
English Gardens
Tuesday, 27th Oct 2009.

I visited Hestercombe during a random cross-country car trip to Heathrow - it was the very last day of my garden visiting holiday in England, enjoyed in 1997...

Disney Garden Gnomes
House & Garden Tour
Tuesday, 27th Oct 2009.

Oops. I'm lowering the tone of my house gardens by allowing a group of freshly painted Disney gnomes to take up residence. Their bright red hats are clearly visible from the house patio.

October Week 4 - More
Garden Journal
Sunday, 25th Oct 2009.

It's the weekend of the vegetable garden. Alas, the wood to raise the sides is too heavy to be person-carried into place, but vegetable plants and seeds can certainly get planted! My English Lavender edge rows are growing well...

Lilac Sensation
Island Garden Border
Saturday, 24th Oct 2009.

In 2009, on a late spring holiday in Ontario, Canada, I very much enjoyed seeing Lilacs in bloom. My favourite, a hybrid called Sensation, was photographed in a private garden near Toronto. Great news - I've found one in a local nursery, and planted it in the Island Bed.

Supersized Garden Seats
Garden Benches & Seats
Friday, 23rd Oct 2009.

I've placed two 'fat persons' garden seats either side of the Glass-House path. Note that I am not necessarily encouraging supersized garden visitors. But who wants to be squashed into a garden seat and instantly reminded of being on a long distance aeroplane?

October Week 4
Garden Journal
Friday, 23rd Oct 2009.

Right. The shaping up of the Head Gardener - and the Moosey Garden - continues, as October zooms past. And the spring garden looks even more beautiful than ever. The Head Gardener is to be warmly congratulated...

October Week 3 - More
Garden Journal
Wednesday, 21st Oct 2009.

I've woken up filled with new personal resolutions rather than gardening thoughts - blast! It's time for seriously pruning and trimming the Head Gardener and getting her into a healthier shape. Hopefully that's all I'll say on the matter.

Wooden Patio Furniture
Garden Benches & Seats
Friday, 16th Oct 2009.

The patio table and chairs were expertly made by Non-Gardening Partner a few years ago. I was oh so very proud. These would be the first of many pieces of amazing home-made garden furniture. I would be the envy of all my country gardening friends!

Seat by the Water
Garden Benches & Seats
Friday, 16th Oct 2009.

I tried this wooden garden bench in quite a few garden spots before settling it in the Hen-House Garden by the water. This, finally, is the perfect spot - secluded and mysterious, difficult for even the cats to find me.