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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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...
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Cat nostalgia time......
- Cat nostalgia time - the pink Kanzan flowering cherry, dearly departed Fluff-Fluff's memorial tree, is blossoming. What a beautiful cat he was! And what beautiful blossom he is helping to produce, there in the middle of the Island Bed.
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Busy......
- Have had a busy morning taking garden photographs, swimming, and visiting the Botanic Gardens with my friend. Saw some amazing large trees (they make my own seem like miniatures).</p>[21210-21215]<p>Home I am, determined to make another part of my garden look beautiful.
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Speedy spring!...
- This new spring month is zooming by! So many changes in the garden, lots of fresh green leaves, blossom blowing off some trees, new flowers (like the larger Dogwoods) appearing. Yeay for speedy spring!
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Different weeds......
- Wow - two gardening weeding sessions, each of two hours, one in Daughter's Garden, one in my own. Thought for the day : different gardens have quite different weeds. Interesting? Pretty obvious, I would have thought...
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Silly spring weather......
- So yesterday the temperature struggled between zero and six degrees Celsius, with a couple of hours of snow thrown in for good measure. Today the sun is back and it's about eighteen degrees. I'm back in my gardening shorts. Silly, silly spring weather.
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Never boring......
- September is a most beautiful month, full of beautiful sights (blossom, flowers, fresh green leaves) and interesting sounds, with the noisy wild pheasants venturing quite close to the house. And September's weather is never boring...
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Hello daffodils......
- Thought for Friday : What a great idea it was to buy in new mixed daffodils and plant them all in big pots around the house. Yeay! I see them each morning, I say hello to them, and they welcome me home when I've been away. They don't all flower at once, and this I rather like. Easy to remove the earlier blooms.
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Intensive and concentrated......
- Spring in my garden is so intensive and concentrated. It's a time of great acceleration in garden growth, with shrubs, trees, and plants changing almost daily. New blossom appearing, flowers popping up, fresh new Gunnera leaves unfurling.
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Over......
- My birthday celebrations are over for another year. I rather love them going on and on. But enthusiasm from friends and family is now politely fading. And normal life goes on.