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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Poor fingers!...
- Gardening is very hand and finger intensive - well, the way I garden certainly is, with my tools of choice being breadknives, scissors, and steak knives. Always interesting when I try to play some fast Haydn on the piano. Mind you, secateurs are just as bad.
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Only one rose?...
- A random thought while I continue to process my squillions of early November rose photographs. If I only grew one rose, for example the luscious Pat Austin, I would keep track of her flowering progress, and check her every day. Thus I would enjoy seeing her very first bud, and the very first full open flower.
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A perfect gardening day......
- Some days I spend ages taking photographs and producing pretty garden pictures, when I should be actually working in the garden. For example, today - the weather is benign, the sun has been shining, and there's no wind. Oh yes, a perfect gardening day. So where have I been? And what have I been doing? Oops.
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The garden is faster!...
- Have had a revelation. Of course in November I feel slower. But it's an illusion. I'm not slower, the garden is faster! More light, more growth, more flowers, more weeds, more work, and so on. Phew! Now I feel much better.
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Slow?...
- Some days I am a really slow gardener. So slow that I wonder - just a little - am I actually getting slower? Less of the andante, more of the largo? Larghissimo? Eek!
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A colourful month!...
- After a busy singing weekend I have plenty of time to be in my garden. November is such a colourful month with irises, roses, lupins galore, and the mid to late season rhododendrons. Lots of noisy birds and busy bees are out and about.
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Some real work......
- Back to some real work in the garden. I've been spending lots of time on music - rehearsals, writing scores, and so on. Need to clear my head and stop feeling so sad. Refresh myself with some beauty from my lovely garden.
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RIP Minimus...
- It's cold, with wintry sleet, almost snowing. I am back from the vet. Sadly, I've laid Minimus (my lovely little grey cat) to rest in the garden by the cottage, with chopped up forget-me-nots sprinkled all around her.
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Scrappy and moochy......
- Some days in the garden are purposeful and focussed. Some days are just scrappy and moochy. Such is today. Mainly because Minimus my cottage cat is not doing so well.
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Wind warning......
- OK. Have just received emergency notification for damaging high winds, starting early tomorrow morning. Guess I'll be sleeping in the house. Hope my gum trees will be OK (they're quite big).
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AI should know?...
- Equinoctial gales - a popular belief that strong winds occur at the time of an equinox because of the equinox. The myth likely arose from the natural increase in storms during autumn and spring. Says AI, and AI should know?
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Wind and water...
- Am having to water parts of the garden every day with my little hoses - particularly things that are newly planted. The hot nor-west wind keeps on blowing, drying everything out.
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Gifts for the garden...
- At this time of the year (mid to late spring) my garden gives me a lot of joy. In return, I do my best to nurture everything, to water, trim, cut back, and weed out anything overly aggressive. I give thanks every morning and evening for the trees, the shrubs, the flowers - even the lawns.
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Magnificent greenery......
- Aha! I am spending this week in the depths of the Hump Garden, where the greenery is magnificent, and the paths are mysterious. In other words there are weeds higher than my knees, and the paths have disappeared. Oops!
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A wind plan...
- I need a plan to neutralise the wind. It's roaring madly around my garden, crashing through all the trees, annoying me. I lose my purpose. Things I need to do (watering, bonfiring) are not sensible, and I'm left with a big gardening blank. And a grumpy face!