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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Naughty again......
- Have been naughty again. I've been outside in my lunchtime cafe clothes (white linen shirt, good jeans and shoes) pruning suckers, trimming the edges, and raking up mess. Soooo naughty!
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A happy garden......
- After 75mm of rain in two days (slightly more than our monthly average, good morning to my happy garden. Hope you enjoyed the precipitation. More and more shrubs are flowering - so beautiful, and bringing me so much joy.
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Puddles......
- Puddles, puddles, puddles. Everywhere. Woke in the middle of the night and listened to the rain beating on the cottage roof - gave thanks that my soil is free-draining. The prediction is for at least one month's worth of rain falling in twenty four hour
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Silly weather...
- This weather is silly. Two days of temperatures in the mid-twenties (Celsius), too hot to be in the direct sun, plants in pots needing watering. Then continuous rain arriving for the weekend, when temperatures will be cut by half - or more.
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Madame Alfred Carriere Rose...
- I'm certain that the beautiful white fluffy climbing rose on the archway by the house is Madame Alfred Carriere. I've even found her rose label (buried deep in a bathroom drawer).
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Oh joy!...
- Oh joy! My garden brings me such joy. Must remember this, when my spirits flag at the end of a gruelling day. Gruelling? Probably a little over-dramatic. Should spend more time sitting and enjoying the colours and the greenery with my cats and dogs.
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No rehearsals!...
- It's an absolutely beautiful morning, and I don't have any rehearsals for anything! Yeay! The creative mind can be totally concentrated on the garden. So far I've done my piano practice (just for me) and weeded for an hour in the Driveway Garden.
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Magnificent shrubs!...
- Good morning to my garden. Your shrubs are looking magnificent. I am so proud of you, of them, and of me. And oh my goodness - how large some of your rhododendrons have grown! Amazing. Wow. Assorted exclamations of joy and surprise.
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Still flowering......
- Am enjoying the Wisteria still flowering on the patio. Breakfasts at the patio table beckon - well, perhaps lunches, since these last few mornings have been quite cold.
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Garden visitors......
- This morning two of my lovely singing friends visited (wearing sensible shoes) for a wee private garden tour. Of course, as we wandered around I saw much in the garden that needed tidying up. Patches of weeds, gnomes that had fallen over, paths that were blocked, tools abandoned, pots abandoned, and so on.
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Better than none......
- Excuse my grammar, but the rhyme is irresistible. As far as gardening goes, one hour is better than none hours.
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Big things, little things.......
- October in my garden is amazing on all scales. Big things like massive colour displays from the first big rhododendrons, the pink blossom trees, and the Dogwoods starting to flower.
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Dandelions......
- Have just popped outside to take a photograph of the dandelions. I didn't know that dandelions close their flowers up when there's no sun. So my lawns are spotty yellow in the sunshine, but sleek green (if slightly long-grassed) when it's cloudy? Or perhaps dandelions just don't 'do' early mornings. Interesting...
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Only two days......
- Have been AWOL from the garden for two days. Oh dear! Suddenly things in the gardens over the water race are not so good. It's weeds, weeds, and more weeds. Mess, mess, and more mess. Surely not in two days? Must have been brewing for weeks.
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Really October!...
- October has sneaked up on me when I wasn't looking. It arrived yesterday, silently, when I was preoccupied, spending my third concentrated weeding day in the Hump Gardens. So it's really October. Wow!