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 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:01:45 -0700 http://backend.userland.com/rss eggy@mooseyscountrygarden.com http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/cats-dogs/year-tiger-cat.html 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, so I thought I'd pay homage to Tiger the tortoiseshell, now the senior Moosey cat. Tiger, whose legs are too short and body too fat, and who is consequently on a 'Shape Up For Life' programme of exercise and diet. Lucky cat! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:32 -0700 http://cats-dogs/year-tiger-cat.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100307.html I am having a plants and bulbs week - the planting in the soil thereof. For example, the path behind the house is blocked with this and that bucket, each full of arum lilies, campanula, polygonatum, pieces of red flax, some purple Ajuga, and so on... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:51:21 -0700 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100307.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100306.html Right. This weekend I am making up for four whole days of distraction from my garden. This is so not like me! So here's the plan - it's a bit bridal. I'll do something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:09:36 -0700 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100306.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100305.html Today should be my Garden-All-Day day, but rain is forecast. I have gardens to tidy. I want to clear absolutely all that scruffy garden land and plant it in an easy care evergreen forest. Yes! I'm not so small that I can't think big. And get wet if I have to... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:15:41 -0800 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100305.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/foliage-plants/bronze-fennel.html Bronze fennel is the ultimate foliage perennial, but it takes a brave gardener to embrace and grow it. When I bought my first two dollar pot the nursery owner warned me - bronze fennel could become a nusiance. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:43:12 -0800 http://foliage-plants/bronze-fennel.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/foliage-plants/grass-foliage-plant.html Ornamental grasses are wonderful foliage plants, and I've been growing them for ages. And so I should be - New Zealand has some wonderful smaller tussock grasses in its natural spaces, as well as larger specimen grasses with wonderfully ornamental seed heads - Cortaderia, for example. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:25:09 -0800 http://foliage-plants/grass-foliage-plant.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/perennial-plants/sedum-variegated.html One of my favourite perennials has been sadly missing from these pages until now. It's the humble pincushion flower, or blue Scabiosa, easy to grow, easy to keep tidy, and easy to turn rooted cuttings and pieces into new plants. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:49:55 -0800 http://perennial-plants/sedum-variegated.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/perennial-plants/sedum-autumn-joy.html Sedums are fabulous perennials for any mixed border. The bees smother them in late summer, and during autumn the flower heads come into their own. I grow different varieties - some creamy white, some pink, and of course the famous 'Autumn Joy'. I also enjoy sedums with variegated foliage. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:40:38 -0800 http://perennial-plants/sedum-autumn-joy.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100304.html Ha! Can I say that March marches on? The mornings are starting to feel autumnal - the sun is lower, the air seems fresher and edgy. And my lawns are returning to that lush green colour again. Yippee! Well - that's a tick for the lawns, at least. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:49 -0800 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100304.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/flower-bulbs/apricot-watsonia.html These delicate apricot coloured Watsonias came unheralded into my garden, a gift in the post from a fellow gardener. They were immediately lost in the spring hustle and bustle of greenery - totally my fault. I am a hopeless 'noticer' of the subtler flowering plants I grow. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:53:23 -0800 http://flower-bulbs/apricot-watsonia.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100303.html I am burning rubbish all weekend. Not only the stuff piled up underneath the fence, but the Wattle tree seed pods and gum leaves which are carpeting many of my paths. I'd like to thank the Cordylines and Eucalyptus trees (and the Wattles)... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:49:20 -0800 http://garden-journal-10/autumn-garden-journal-100303.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-05/autumn-garden-journal-089.html More and more spring daffodils are flowering, and I've spied the first patch of blue Muscari in the garden - sheltered underneath a lovely red-leafed leucadendron. Is it really spring? I hope so! Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:26:48 -0800 http://garden-journal-05/autumn-garden-journal-089.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-09/winter-garden-journal-090609.html It's 9:30am, a serious frost outside, temperature still sitting at a shivery -1 (degrees Celsius), and summer holiday nostalgia has set in. I even find myself flicking to the Golf Channel on TV just to peep at the leafy green deciduous summer forests of USA. That's soooooooo sad! Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:25:37 -0800 http://garden-journal-09/winter-garden-journal-090609.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-journal-96/garden-journal-1997-1-.html I am rationalising my Dahlias. Colour groups are as follows: lemons, yellows, brick reds, magentas, mid-reds, bluey-reds, soft oranges, lilacs. All soft orange and lemon Dahlias are to go in the Jelly Bean Border near the Graham Thomas roses... Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:25:15 -0800 http://garden-journal-96/garden-journal-1997-1-.html http://www.mooseyscountrygarden.com/garden-news/moosey-news-1002.html Summer marches on in the Moosey Garden, and many of the annual and perennial flowers are over. So I'm collecting seeds madly, ready for sowing in the autumn. I'm being a resourceful gardener - for once! Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:24:49 -0800 http://garden-news/moosey-news-1002.html