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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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.
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Anything considered......
- Mature lady with moderately dodgy knees seeks garden location in which to enjoy a whole day of light garden work. Prefers to sit down. Anything considered.
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Good morning, Garden......
- Good morning, my dear Garden. My lovely Late Autumn Garden, still looking quite colourful, with very beautiful evergreens, and some random roses still flowering.
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The fallen leaves......
- So what's happened to those beautiful autumn leaves which just last week were glowing golden and red, up in the trees? They're all down on the lawns now. That was fast work! Now you see them, now you don't.
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An order for rain......
- When will it rain next? If only one could order in rain, timing it to arrive just after a border has been cleared and spread with horse manure and mulch. And indicate what sort of rain, for how long, etc.
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Not too big......
- Regarding this garden of mine, which isn't too big, except some days I see lots of things which need doing all at once, and then I wonder if it is too big after all...
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Hello autumn......
- Hello Autumn. I love you (when you bring reasonably good weather). I love your leaves, whether up in the trees or down on the ground. I love the Prunuses and the Dogwoods. I love your shapes of colour shapes in the gardenscape.
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Down and out!...
- Woo hoo! Yeay! Yippee! I'm back in the garden after four full days of rain. There's even a smudge of blue sky up there. Am so lucky I garden in New Zealand - not sure how I'd survive e.g. a Canadian Prairies winter. Reading plant and seed catalogues for three months?
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Rain gardening?...
- We're getting a lot of rain. Now into the second day, there are puddles everywhere. Rain is OK, but I wish I'd planted the last of the new shrubs.
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Giant problems......
- Sometimes the gardening tasks I set myself are alarmingly big. Like today - I am tackling (i.e. trimming) the giant reed by Car Bridge. Should have guessed that anything with the word 'giant' in its title could become a problem. Silly, me. At the same time I am slowly dismantling the huge Phormium tenax alongside...