Garden Journal 2025
The number 2025 has a strong numerical feel to it (a perfect square multiplied by a perfect square). So will the gardening year 2025 be perfect? Can I get a step closer to being THE perfect (square) gardener? All the best for 2025, hope it's a goodie.
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Happy New Year for 2025...
- Good morning. It's New Year's Day, and it's cold and wet. The log-burner is going, the cats are snuggled up inside. Nobody wants to go outside - except the dogs. Last night's southerly rain was interesting. For us the southerly comes up from Antarctica. Brr...
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A whimper?...
- My gardening year has started with a bit of a whimper. Yesterday would be better forgotten. I mooched around with a headache, went back too bed, got up, mooched some more.
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Mindful...
- Am trying to stay mindful of my five New Year's Resolutions. Five! Five important signposts to ensure that my 2025 is an orderly and well-constructed year...
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Hello summer?...
- Summer? Helloooooo? It's ten degrees Celsius. Average summer daytime temperature here is twenty two degrees. The log burner is going again, and I'm wearing three layers - two merino, then a top layer of woolly possum.
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Below the Glass-House...
- This afternoon I made a good start on the garden below the glass-house. It is so much sunnier now the big Wattles are down. Rugosa roses are sprouting madly. Weeds are waist-high. It is an exciting, vibrant area.
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What day of the week is it?...
- Love the way that the days of the week in January merge into each other! Summer holidays at home - just magical. What day of the week is it anyway? Do I need to know?
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My green garden......
- Good morning to my green garden. My goodness - there's no rain, no drizzle, not even any random spitting. No wind, and no time sonstraints. I could move mountains! More likely move mess from the paths behind the cottage...
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No mosquitoes as yet...
- The nice thing about these summer holiday weeks so far - no mosquitoes (yet) around the pond (too cold at night). So sitting at the table on the pond decking is very pleasant. As is my early morning cup of tea on the cottage verandah with uncovered ankles!
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Gardening in the sun......
- I forget how hot and bothered I can get gardening in the sun. It's sticky work. But finally, maybe, summer is really here. I must celebrate the warmth. And remember to water the patio pots.
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Yeay for cloud cover!...
- Aha! It's OK in theory to celebrate the summer sun, but yeay for cloud-cover! I must garden while there is cloud-cover. Very much more pleasant in summer than the glaring sun.
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A fluid week?...
- This last week has been fun, and very fluid, though the actual rain fell right at the end. I've done lots of music writing, family visiting, jig-sawing, and watching cricket on the TV.
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Glorious dahlias......
- Oops. Have been a bit of a non-gardener again this week. And it's time to say a polite good morning to February, the real summer month in my garden. And a gushing good morning to all the dahlias.
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My gardening status......
- Today, finally, my gardening status has changed to being active again. Yeay! My work has been thorough, with attention to detail - and I've raked up all my mess. Have been clearing in the Pond Paddock gardens...
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Gardening, music, dogs......
- I'm having a garden and music arranging day today, alternating between both. The tune de jour? What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life. And what exactly am I doing with mine? Hopefully gardening! My first task is to dead-head dahlias and trim Anemanthele grasses (they're now in seed, flopping over paths, easy to trip over).
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Out of control?...
- Am still cleaning up the garden. I am always cleaning up! There is so much growth to - control? Don't like to use that word, but it does rather apply. And I love seeing the results. More enjoyable than cleaning up the house.
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A patchy week......
- Another patchy week where I've been busy doing musical stuff - choir rehearsals, concerts, and so on. But each day I've watered the pots - the Cannas by the cottage, the tomatoes and flowers by the house. I reckon that counts.
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Living things in my life......
- I love all the living things I share my life with. The house cats are a bit lazy, but my dogs come with me now when I'm gardening. Bumble bees are sleeping overnight on the dahlia flowers, and my tame blackbird is back.
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Lost and found......
- I am very, very cross. Have just wandered around my garden peering up into trees and down beside the paths. My camera has been horribly lost for a week. Look for one thing, find another? Oh yes. Found lots of weeds. Not fair.