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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Down and out!...
- Woo hoo! Yeay! Yippee! I'm back in the garden after four full days of rain. There's even a smudge of blue sky up there. Am so lucky I garden in New Zealand - not sure how I'd survive e.g. a Canadian Prairies winter. Reading plant and seed catalogues for three months?
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Rain gardening?...
- We're getting a lot of rain. Now into the second day, there are puddles everywhere. Rain is OK, but I wish I'd planted the last of the new shrubs.
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Giant problems......
- Sometimes the gardening tasks I set myself are alarmingly big. Like today - I am tackling (i.e. trimming) the giant reed by Car Bridge. Should have guessed that anything with the word 'giant' in its title could become a problem. Silly, me. At the same time I am slowly dismantling the huge Phormium tenax alongside...
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Sunshine gardening!...
- Have just had my early cup of tea on the cottage verandah with Speckles the stray. He smooched me, walked over my legs, bunted my hands, those much-loved hands. I know, I know. He loves me because I feed him. But please, not those dried cat biscuits. Mushy food is much tastier.
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Such bravery......
- Breaking news. Mature woman gardener, wearing only shorts and a merino top, attempts to conquer the cold, wet Easter weather. Such bravery, hee hee...
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Just too wet......
- The long Easter weekend has been misty and moist - not cold, silver rather than grey. But a succession of dripping rain and drizzle days, too wet for pleasant gardening experiences.
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Scary stuff!...
- Scary stuff. I am going to the plant nursery this morning with my vouchers. I have some vague ideas which include Hebes, Rhododendrons, and more garden gnomes. Wish me luck!
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Bird blessed!...
- Am so enjoying the autumn feeling in my garden. It's so mellow, with lots of bird company - fantails squeaking and swooping over me, bell-birds overhead whistling and tooting. My tame blackbird always checks me out when I'm weeding and digging. I am bird-blessed.
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Real love!...
- I love my autumn garden. I love working in it, looking at it, thinking and writing about it. But it's not just my happy place. It's my wonderful and worrisome place, both at the same time. This is real love, after all.
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Beautiful autumn days......
- Am enjoying some beautiful autumn days. Yellow leaves are fluttering down from the Gleditsia tree. The dahlias I dead-headed are still flowering madly again. Dead-heading works. Yes, it truly does.
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Plans......
- Plans. It's good to have plans. I have big plans for me in my garden this weekend, namely to continue bonfiring my mess. And plans for Non-Gardening Partner, namely to chainsaw down dead branches of the Cornus by Middle Bridge...
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Welcome to April......
- Good morning to April. An early good morning to Speckles my stray cat, curled up in his cat box on the cottage verandah. And to ginger Foxy who I feed but never see, and Minimus the Grey. In the house now, good morning to my fridge, which is horribly empty...
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Silly autumn!...
- Silly autumn! My singing friend has big bearded irises blooming again. I have a rambling rose which got completely confused, missed out summer totally, and is flowering now. Meanwhile the gum leaves keep fluttering down and the first of the deciduous trees are turning yellow...
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The B.A.B....
- Am getting ready for the B.A.B. The BIG autumn bonfire - unfortunately I have to use the B-word. Needs must, in a garden full of gum trees, Cordylines and Phormiums.
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Honesty......
- Time for some honesty (not the garden variety - I already grow that). My autumn garden looks really messy, and too big. Wait! Note to self : it is NOT really messy, it is just natural and normal. And it is NOT too big. It's just a strong size, hee hee...