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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My 2026 Birthday week......
- It's my 2026 birthday week. Yeay for me! It's all about me? Well, mostly. Me and my garden, with my cats and my dogs, and my garden plans and dreams. Oh joy!
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September spring......
- September. Spring. My garden is lighter, with more and more flowers. Beautiful, lovely, nicer than nice. But will I finish everything I want to finish before my September birthday in the second week? Oh I hope so. One dares to dream...
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Revelation!...
- Have had an early morning revelation (sorry about this). Gardening on a small scale - for example, weeding - produces small scale results, with small scale satisfaction. My garden would look so much better overall if I spent a morning trimming all the ferns. This would be a large scale improvement, visually. A huge morale booster.
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Sneaky Spring!...
- Sneaky spring! It just takes a few warmer days and nights to make me open my eyes a bit wider - and off I go, happily looking for signs of spring (rather than weeds). Yeay!
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List Number Two......
- Time for a list, the second one I've written for August in the garden. I totally ignored the first one, so let's hope this one has a better outcome! It is an optimistic list, containing small Hump Garden details - easily forgotten, but equally easily implemented...
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Going rogue......
- Aha! Good morning to the Periwinkle (so generous) and those tenacious Violets, growing in the Hump Garden where I do not require either of you. Two ground covers, surplus to requirements, gone rogue...
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All day?...
- Monday is one of my 'I can garden all day' days. But this depends very much on the morning temperature. And this morning it's been too cold for me, so it's afternoon-only gardening, sorry about that.
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Shrug my shoulders......
- Keep seeing lots of garden clearing which needs doing. I try to keep calm, shrug my shoulders, whatever. One needs to maintain a delicate balance, and there will be gardenless days.
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The funniest feeling......
- Have the funniest feeling : gardening tasks are not keeping pace with the gardening hours in a day. If August had, for example, forty days, I could easily achieve everything I need to, before spring strikes. Or I could just work harder and longer, get out in the gardening earlier, come in much later, yes?
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Ignoring that list!...
- Am still ignoring that first August list I announced with a loud splattering fanfare of trumpets, back on the first of the month. I can keep it in storage for 2027?
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Recovery update - and snow!...
- Dental surgery recovery update : I decided I needed to be more sensible. Have spent time over the last few days just lazing around, reading, going to bed a bit to snooze in the daytimes, taking my apres-surgery pills, watching Poirot on Youtube. Charging around madly in my garden for hours seemed to be a little silly.
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My first August List......
- Here is my first August Cleaning Up List, very scary, very detailed. All I'm doing in the garden at the moment is 'cleaning up'. It would be nicer to be planting up colourful pots of polyanthus, yes?
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Calmly and rationally......
- Calmly and rationally, with not even a smidgen of negativity, I will outline the garden locations I need to clean up over the next few days : the garden behind the glass-house, the path to Rooster Bridge, and the immediate garden over the water.
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My winter weather journal......
- Welcome to the Moosey Winter Weather Journal, with the occasional short paragraph about gardening. So it's Saturday and it's cold and raining. Brr... What to do today? Stay inside. More importantly, what to write about?
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A sensitive gardener?...
- As a reasonably sensitive gardener I like to think that I can 'look after' the plants I love. The Darmera which grows waterside in the Henhouse Gardens has been smothered by Carexes. Last spring I didn't see any flowers. Help!