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 colours of summer......
- Have just done a quick wander around with the camera and the dogs. Am loving the new colours of summer against the backdrop of greenery. The roses usually grab the limelight, but many of them have now finished their first flowering flush.
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A tidy mind, a tidy garden......
- I have to garden all day today. I just have to. I have a three-pronged plan. OK, it's going in a list. A tidy mind, a tidy garden, and all that.
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Serious conversations......
- Hello to my lovely garden - nice to have a serious summer conversation with you. You obviously enjoyed the big irrigation whooshing around you last night! The serious watering regime has started.
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Moany, moany......
- Am ashamed when I read back over my latest garden journal pages. I am forever complaining. Moany, moany. If it isn't the old forget-me-nots then it's the heat. So? Would I really like to cancel summer?
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Irrigating the garden......
- Worked long hours yesterday, rewarded with a wind-free night and the sound of the whooshy irrigation on the side of the cottage. Yippee for the big irrigation! There'd be no trees, hardly any green shrubs, and certainly no roses without it. Just tussock and dry paddock grasses. And weeds!
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A new cat?...
- A cat surprise - it seems that I now have three cottage cats : Minimus, my beautiful grey tabby, Speckles, a stray I have been feeding for three years, and a newcomer. Two nights ago a cat arrived on the cottage verandah...
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Crimson Cascade Climbing Rose...
- It's time to welcome the climbing rose Crimson Cascade to my garden. It grows happily at the entrance to the sunny Hump garden, on an archway. Having a romantic name obviously helps sales, but in this case the name is misleading. The rose is not exactly crimson (well, mine isn't), and certainly doesn't cascade.
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My poor garden!...
- My poor dry garden! The front lawn has gone straw-brown. Even the weedy periwinkle is complaining. But lovely Non-Gardening Partner has checked out the big irrigation, fixed this and that, and it's going to whooshing water onto the garden for the next few nights.
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More hot days......
- Spending the whole day shifting hoses around, bucketing water on pots, and picking flowers for the house vases is a valid day in the garden? Maybe? Almost? Why not!
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I'm back!...
- It's a few days since I did any gardening, oops... The silly singing season has intervened, and I've been AWOL again, busy in my musical world. Sorry, garden. Tra-la-la. Knocked three more rehearsals and three more gigs off my music-to-do list. Four more gigs to go (not kidding!)
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The singing season......
- It's a few days since I did any gardening, oops... The silly singing season has intervened, and I've been AWOL again, busy in my musical world. Sorry, garden. Tra-la-la. Knocked three more rehearsals and three more gigs off my music-to-do list. Four more gigs to go (not kidding!)
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Rambling Rector Rose...
- My not-so-near rural neighbour laughed when I told him I'd planted a Rambling Rector rose on my fence-line. 'Give him five years and he'll have rambled over the fields into my garden' he said. Yes, the Rector is a rather robust rambler...
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Hot days...
- Aha! Hot days - Finally it's summer, perhaps? I've got the watering hoses on, and have been filling and refilling the watering cans to keep the patio pots happy...
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Marie de Blois Moss Rose...
- I love moss roses for the silliest of reasons. The covering of moss on their stems and buds looks like an infestation of aphids. Argh! But then the relief - not aphids at all! Marie de Blois (AKA the Pink Moss Rose) is my newest moss rose...
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Pottering about......
- Some mornings, when I should be gardening, I just potter about the house - doing the laundry, watering the patio pots, talking to the dogs about mu latest interest (the foothills of the Indian Himalayas), cataloguing yet more rose photographs...