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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Never boring......
- September is a most beautiful month, full of beautiful sights (blossom, flowers, fresh green leaves) and interesting sounds, with the noisy wild pheasants venturing quite close to the house. And September's weather is never boring...
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Hello daffodils......
- Thought for Friday : What a great idea it was to buy in new mixed daffodils and plant them all in big pots around the house. Yeay! I see them each morning, I say hello to them, and they welcome me home when I've been away. They don't all flower at once, and this I rather like. Easy to remove the earlier blooms.
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Intensive and concentrated......
- Spring in my garden is so intensive and concentrated. It's a time of great acceleration in garden growth, with shrubs, trees, and plants changing almost daily. New blossom appearing, flowers popping up, fresh new Gunnera leaves unfurling.
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Over......
- My birthday celebrations are over for another year. I rather love them going on and on. But enthusiasm from friends and family is now politely fading. And normal life goes on.
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My birthday week continued......
- Am still celebrating my birthday week. And why not? Feeling spring-inspired, walked around my damp garden (it had been raining overnight) to take photographs. Blossom, blossom, and more blossom - so beautiful. Heartwarming, uplifting, inspiring, refreshing blossom.
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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?