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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An achievable goal?...
- Best to set an achievable goal. Today I hope to finish clearing the top area of the Wattle Woods. Just the top area - should be achievable. I can do this. Have already gone for a walk with my camera and seen more Alkanet to be dug out. Have my little hoses on the Camellias by the glass-house.
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Kiftsgate Rose...
- I bought a batch of old-fashioned white rambling roses second-hand, back in the day, and planted them to climb up large trees in my garden. The Driveway garden's Gleditsia was paired with the rambler Kiftsgate.
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Blame the Leopard Plant!...
- I blame the spotty leafed plant! I walk past the patch of Leopard plants each morning and night on my way to and from the cottage. I love to see them well watered, happy and thriving. This morning - aha! Had to take a photograph of the spottiest leaves...
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Not fair!...
- Aargh! It is simply not fair. I do my best. I tidy a border up and it looks magnificent. I get a bit lazy (gardenwise) and have just a few days off. While I'm off duty chaos and mess arrive and fill up the borders.
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Change-over time......
- It's flower change-over time. The lupins are almost finished (must trim the seed-heads), and now the day lilies are flowering. The ferns are full height (fat, green, and - well, ferny). Summer cricket has started, with test matches here in New Zealand and Australia to enjoy. Yeay for my little cricket radio...
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D is for......
- D is for December. D is for the Driveway gardens. And for Doing Things in my garden. This week I'm tidying around the edges of Driveway Garden borders. It's a beautiful area to walk around, to sit and read under the shady trees, or lie in the grass. As long as the edges have been trimmed!
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Semi-snoozing......
- No gardening for a few days - have been feeling a bit under the weather, semi-snoozing (and even sleeping) in the daytimes. Suspect some vague anti-gardening virus. Luckily short-lived, and I did manage to re-energise myself for my Jazz choir's sparkling concert on Friday night. So much fun, such good music.
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The Active Rose...
- The Active - what a strange name for a rose! But a rather lovely rose, a seedling of the old rose Mutabilis, bred by Ken Nobbs of Te Kauwhata, New Zealand in 1985.
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Lost!...
- Blast. I've lost my edging shears. Again! And the wind is awful. It is noisy, very gusty, and my trees are making alarming sounds. Creaking, squeaking, whining, groaning...
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Brown dog visitors!...
- >No gardening this weekend - I have been a hostess! Have had lovely house visitors here for a sleep-over, including a happy toddler and two brown dogs. Lots of fun, lots of playing, lots of barking. And not a cat in sight - wonder why?
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Ramble on......
- Rambling Rector is rambling away on the boundary fence in full flower. What a sweet rose he is. So strong. So resilient (his only watering comes from rain). Dare I say he is manly?
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Peaceful......
- It's early morning, and I'm ready, dressed in my gardening shirt and shorts. I've already sat with Minimus (RIP) to have breakfast. It's so peaceful in the garden by her rusty cat statue. She and I are both at peace now.
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Rhythms......
- Sunday morning rhythms - singing the perky, accented patterns in Byrd's 3-Part Mass. In the garden afterwards, things are much more languid 'A piacere' sitting in the veggie patch scooping dirt around, shuffling slowly backwards on my bottom (and nearly losing my gardening shorts, which are too loose).
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Jacquenetta Rose...
- I finally have a firm rose ID for the rather large single pale apricot rose growing in the Wattle Woods : Jacquenetta. For some years she struggled in the shade. But last year three of the large Wattle trees came down (their decision, not mine). Let there be light! And there is - much more light, much more suitable for roses to flourish...
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Poor fingers!...
- Gardening is very hand and finger intensive - well, the way I garden certainly is, with my tools of choice being breadknives, scissors, and steak knives. Always interesting when I try to play some fast Haydn on the piano. Mind you, secateurs are just as bad.