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 3 - More
Garden Journal
Thursday, 19th Nov 2009.

The good life of the Head Gardener is full of simple things - like windless rain in the night (good for the Moosey Garden) and going swimming (good for the Moosey cardiovascular system) and playing Bach on the piano (good for the Moosey soul).

Visit to an Iris Nursery
Gardening Articles
Wednesday, 18th Nov 2009.

A visit to an Iris Nursery with the local Garden club - what a wonderful way to spend a day off from the garden. The big bearded irises in my garden are just flowering... An iris nursery! Hee hee - I could buy some more.

November Week 3
Garden Journal
Tuesday, 17th Nov 2009.

Wow. A new week - I can't remember the garden ever looking so good. Out come more and more roses, accompanied by the descriptors 'beautiful', 'extremely beautiful', 'incredibly beautiful', and the more colloquial 'oh so very beautiful'. It's rose time!

November Week 2 - Yet More
Garden Journal
Saturday, 14th Nov 2009.

If the Head Gardener puts up a whole web-page with just one day's gardening news on it, then that must mean she does heaps of work, and has oodles of amazingly interesting things to talk about. Forget the phrase 'less is more'...

Corylus
Modern Shrub Roses
Saturday, 14th Nov 2009.

I fell in love with rugosa roses early in my country gardening life. Of course I love rose flowers, but rugosas also have wonderful textural foliage. The rose Corylus is one of my latest leafy rugosa treasures.

Pots and Ferns
House & Garden Tour
Friday, 13th Nov 2009.

Peeping around the side of the house towards the Laundry Garden there are many beautiful late spring surprises. Where did those luscious Lupins come from? And the ferns? Every year there are new clumps of this and that in my house gardens.

Souvenir de la Malmaison
Old Fashioned Roses
Friday, 13th Nov 2009.

What a beautiful country rose Souvenir de la Malmaison is - when seen from a distance. This rose spreads and arches her fat pink flowers, and looks drop dead gorgeous. But don't get too close!

November Week 2 - More
Garden Journal
Friday, 13th Nov 2009.

Oh dear, dear, dear me. I have eleven clumps of (free) Agapanthus to dig out. So more Agapanthus plants are coming to be planted in the Moosey country garden. And none of my gardening friends will understand why. It's so obvious to me, as a compulsive recycler.

November Week 2
Garden Journal
Tuesday, 10th Nov 2009.

What a weekend! Three monster Cabbage trees dug up from another garden, driven across town, and planted on the far edge of the Frisbee Lawn. This morning Non-Gardening Partner and myself are off to pick up a wooden garden bench - another one! Gardens need lots of benches...

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.

Upcoming Events
Garden News
Wednesday, 4th Nov 2009.

Oops. November is flying by, and I love it. There's new colour every day from late rhododendrons, roses, irises, and favourite perennials like the lupins. And I'm bringing in new plants all the time...

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!