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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The perils of groundcovers......
- I've moved into the Septic Tank Garden (an evocative name, hee hee) to clean out all the Periwinkle (which shouldn't even be here) and Lamium (last attempt at digging was ten years ago, therefore sporting ten years of luxuriant regrowth). Oh joy! The perils of ground-covers...
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Little by little......
- Throughout the week, every day, little by little, I've slowly but surely worked my way through the Wattle tree mess. Non-Gardening Partner has joined in, sawing up the fallen trunk and branches. I've carted barrowloads of logs over to the house for the log-burner, and smaller branches to the bonfire.
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Needed : a winter motivator.....
- Some weeks I could do with a seasonal mental coach, a winter motivator. We are having a succession of very frosty mornings, too cold to go gardening until almost the afternoon. So I sit around in the house, drinking cups of tea, reading books, looking at things online to buy (I don't need anything), waiting...
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Winter contrast......
- Oh my goodness. Have been looking through my older photographs. The spring colours are amazing. One forgets, surrounded by winter. But winter provides the best contrast, yes? And I can wait for spring. I'm patient.
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Too easy......
- Too easy to visualise my new rhododendrons already lovingly planted in perfect positions, watered, blanketed with mulch. But they are still in their pots by the garage. This will not do. This morning I am off to dig holes and get muddy, and actually get them in the ground.
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Theme for July......
- Funny how I have gardening themes. Last month it was mass planting Agapanthus. This month it's trimming Ferns, Carexes, and Phormiums which grow along the water race. At the time of year when the water is at its coldest...
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Clearing the Water Race......
- Thursday 10th July 2025 - a day of release. And music rehearsals, new rhododendrons, and new hand tools. Lots of blue skies, but no gardening. Lots of piano playing with sore, slow fingers (from overuse of secateurs).
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Spirit chills......
- Brr... Winter 2025 seems colder than other years, even when I'm sitting in my house in front of the log-burner. Strange. Oh well. Perhaps it's all in the mind...
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Overwhelmed - but by what?...
- Earlier this week I was feeling overwhelmed with the amount of gardening work I needed to do. This morning I decided it was time to deal to the things that were bugging me. Couldn't remember any of them! Had to take a notebook and pen and go slowly around my garden, using my eyes, writing a list...
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Real winter!...
- Real winter has arrived - it's raining and only four degrees Celsius outside. That's not very helpful. I've even put on merino long johns under my jeans. It's cold!
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Good morning July......
- Good morning, July. It's mid-morning, still frosty, and I'm outside on the patio table with a hot coffee. My two Fred cats are with me in the sun, eyeing each other up (each probably planning a sneaky ambush of the other).
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Perfect?...
- It's a wet, grey day, perfect for watering all my new Agapanthus plantings, not so perfect for gardening. And anyway I have a bagful of new library books (great choices) and a new jigsaw (a tropical rainforest). Naturally I'd really like to be outside in my garden trimming the Gunnera...
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A new relationship!...
- Need a break from my Agapanthus obsession. A trial separation, maybe? I know - go into a completely different garden area. Concentrate on a completely different plant - for example, the Gunnera. Build a new relationship!
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Sorry, sun, but......
- Sorry, sun, but you promised so much, peeping shyly through my dirty winter windows this morning. Out I went with the dogs, only to shiver and creep back into the house. Look - your job is to warm me up. Gently caress my face, that sort of thing...
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MY BIG PLANTING DAY...
- I forget how cold it is in my winter garden after a frost. Things can take all morning to warm up. But I want to be out there gardening. Today was supposed to be MY BIG PLANTING DAY, all day, starting early...