http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/ Garden news can range from the smallest new plant purchase to the biggest new landscaping project. Then there's the big wide gardening world outside the garden gate to keep an eye on. What about all the garden tours, new plant releases, garden festivals? They all promise new experiences. Something's always happening somewhere, be it on radio, TV, in magazines, on the internet, at the local nursery, or at Moosey's Country Garden. en-us Copyright 1997-2004 Eggyweb Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:25:06 -0800 http://backend.userland.com/rss eggy@mooseyscountrygarden.com http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120205.html 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. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:38:49 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120205.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120204.html 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! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:33:49 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120204.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/cats-dogs/kitten-cat-dog.html 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. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:36:22 -0800 http://cats-dogs/kitten-cat-dog.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120203.html 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. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:12:24 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120203.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/rose-garden/the-fairy-rose.html 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. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:24:50 -0800 http://rose-garden/the-fairy-rose.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/island-garden/rose-fairy-pink.html The Island Bed houses a small collection of standard roses. The Fairy Rose (a pretty pink) was growing as a weeping standard by the grass archway when I first came to Mooseys. Over the years I've added other standard roses to the border's edge. There's always room for one more... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:36:48 -0800 http://island-garden/rose-fairy-pink.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/apple-tree-garden/elm-tree-apple-tree.html The variegated elm arrived at Mooseys in 2001 as a rather large tree. Firstly it was planted in the grass by the woodshed. I laid a circle of stones to show the shape of the new garden, and dug. But gardens grow, and slowly they change... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:19:18 -0800 http://apple-tree-garden/elm-tree-apple-tree.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/apple-tree-garden/mauve-hydrangea-flowers.html The Apple Tree Garden houses my random collection of hydrangeas. Some were bought from plant sales, while others were grown by me from cuttings. My summer garden tends to be too dry to grow hydrangeas with confidence, but I keep a watchful eye out. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:13 -0800 http://apple-tree-garden/mauve-hydrangea-flowers.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-bridges/willow-garden-bridge.html Willow Bridge is a new Moosey bridge, spanning the water race near the willow tree stump. It's a wooden construction, strong and simple - not exactly what I'd ordered, but I love it. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:51:43 -0800 http://garden-bridges/willow-garden-bridge.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/island-garden/dahlia-flower-spikes.html 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. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:30:34 -0800 http://island-garden/dahlia-flower-spikes.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-news/upcoming-events.html 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! Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:28:33 -0800 http://garden-news/upcoming-events.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120202.html 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! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:50:55 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120202.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120201.html 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. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:48:42 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120201.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120111.html 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! Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:46:42 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120111.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120110.html 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! Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:50:20 -0800 http://garden-journal-12/summer-garden-journal-0120110.html