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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Too many photographs?...
- It's drizzly, the garden too damp to be comfortable - the perfect day to sort out more of my photographs. Can one take too many photographs of ones garden? That's as silly as asking : 'Can one have too many roses?' Hmm...
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Sky high!...
- My gardening spirits are sky high. Every day I find new roses flowering. The borders are looking magnificent. It's even becoming easier to ignore the annual grass weeds - from a distance!
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Memo to self......
- At last I've remembered to dig up and replant some Hostas, before they get completely swamped by ferns. Finally, a 'Memo to Self' has been noted and acted on. Have also remembered to plant the rest of the Purple Passion potatoes. Another Memo to Self : potatoes do not crop well if left languishing in their plastic bag. Oops.
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The roses are blooming......
- It's November, and suddenly there are roses blooming everywhere throughout the garden. Roses are wonderful. Just so beautiful.
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Forget-Me-Nots?...
- My garden in spring is so speedy! Now it's time to start pulling out the annual forget-me-nots. Dear things! Eek! I'm getting biddibids all over my clothes. Something to do apres-gardening - remove them all?
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The saddest of days....
- Today was the saddest of days. We buried our dear darling dog Winnie, whose mobility and quality of life had massively deteriorated over the last few weeks. The vet came to the house this morning. Winnie is at peace now - no more struggles or pain.
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Only wind?...
- Today the wind is roaring. It's horrible and very dusty outside. But it's only wind, right? So if I find a spot which is semi-sheltered, without too many big trees, I should be OK for a couple of hours? Hmm... Maybe not in the Wattle Woods...
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Make more mess......
- Good morning. Same old, same old. Clean up yesterday's garden mess, then make a whole lot more, hee hee.
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Water me!...
- Hot, hot, hot. It is very hot today, too hot to do any robust garden, I'm afraid. I should be watering, but the pond has been semi-drained. It's still filling up, so I can't yet use the irrigation pump for my hoses. Foliage plants in the garden are visibly wilting. Water me! Water me! The Ligularias are really making a fuss
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Tiring?...
- OK. A rhetorical question. What's so tiring about sitting down in the garden and weeding? Is sitting down in a chair tiring? No. So what's the difference?
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Mathematics......
- Have been doing some Garden Mathematics - this time measuring what Non-Gardening Partner does versus what I do. The difference is so unfair. He is so fast - I am soooo slow.
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The need to weed......
- The need to weed my garden is getting rather serious. Some days it feels like an impossible task to get on top of. But chemical weeding is not really my style. What to do? Just get on with it, little and often.
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Waiting for rain......
- Have wasted quite a lot of time staying inside waiting for rain. Teasing notifications keep appearing on my phone - <i>'rain expected within the hour'</i>, and so on. After only two hot days my garden is struggling a little. The Ligularias, for example, are drooping madly...
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Watering......
- I've been out and about in the garden watering. It's another stunning hot day - must make the most of it. Apparently some nasty weather is coming soon - the story of spring. Seems more changeable this year...
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Gather my thoughts......
- Just need to gather my thoughts before I start a new week of October gardening. A variety of topics, but sometimes there's more to life than the garden...