The Moosey Plant Nursery

The Moosey Garden is at the horticultural crossroads. My nursery systems are seriously flawed, and far too random. I am fast turning into a re-active rather than a pro-active glass-house potterer. It's time to wake up - and smell the roses?

The Glass-House Potterer - aka Head Gardener Moosey

Gardening Relationships

The problem is my relationship with my glass-house. I need to think ahead more - sort out more seeds, organise more cuttings, pot up seedlings of Pittosporums, and so on. In fact I need a Moosey Nursery Strategic Plan. My glass-house needs to become the heart of the Moosey Garden, not just a place I sometimes visit when it's too cold to do anything else.

Favourite Cutting Grown Wallflowers

Where's the intelligence in remembering mid-summer how much I like Nepeta Six Hills Giant, for example? I should be nurturing new plants of this great perennial in spring. And, talking of spring, I love my feeble collection of flowering and fragrant wallflowers - I should be organised for massed plantings of these beautiful short lived plants.

Favourite Seed Sown Blue Pansies

Gardening Imagination

And imagining rows of pots of my favourite variegated pelargonium is easy - how about actually producing enough of these for once? One year I created a beautiful French rural courtyard ambience in front of the Moosey Stables - why not every year? Another year I actually achieved my first and only massed planting - they were the big leaf Peppermint Pelargoniums, and they were stunning. Of course the frost cut them all down before I did...

Too Much Time Spent on Maintenance?

You see, all I've been doing for the last weeks - or is it months? - is garden maintenance. I'm still not sure if I'm catching up. There are garden areas which haven't been cleared for years. I'm discovering outgrown shrubs, hopeless weed patches, seedling trees which have taken over the skyline. I seem to be paying for past planting and gardening sins, rather than thinking ahead.

The New Moosey Nursery Plan

I need a calm, serious, timetabled plan to give the Moosey Garden Nursery the stature it deserves. I shall proudly call it the New Moosey Non-Random Nursery Strategy for Growing Plants Sensibly. I will produce enough pottles of blue pansies to fill all the dead spots in my spring garden! I will start cuttings of favourite Hebes, ready to plant in three years time. I will look ahead!

Right! Action! I'm off to clean up the glass-house!