Garden Articles 2000
These are the articles I wrote in the year 2000. I'm starting, slowly, to assert my gardening independence - gaining confidence in my creative abilities. I am a typical fledgling garden writer, with far too much to say about far too little...
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The Moosey Glass-House...
- My glass-house is in the back corner of the house gardens, near the water race and the shade of the Wattle Woods. Naturally I do lots of important garden things in there...
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Gardening Fashion...
- Fashion in the garden is much misrepresented by all those mischievous country charm catalogues. Do you fancy a spot of weeding in your oyster moleskins? Visualise yourself doing the winter slash and burn in trendy?
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Garden Shifting...
- Does anyone have a garden that stays the same? I hope not. There has to somewhere for all the winter gardening dreams to go. There are always more plants than the soil or pots to house them...
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Mother of the Year - 2000...
- One year Moosey's Country Garden handed out a Mother of the Year award. Nominations were accepted in the two weeks leading up to Mother's Day. The winner was...
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Garden Design...
- Today I found a spot in the garden where I'd actually got 'it' right! The yellow lime green bracts of the late flowering salvias were actually echoing the clear light greens of the Breath of Heaven bush nearby. Ha!
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My Garden in Autumn...
- Autumn in New Zealand is a puzzling season for many gardeners. Here in the Moosey Garden it's a mixed-up time of the gardening year. The timetable gets a bit confused. Seaonal edges are a bit blurred. One day it's summer-warm, the next it's winter-cold...
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Garden Frost...
- It happens every winter. The house wakes up to find a frosty blanket covering the garden. A frost! Yeay! No gardening will be possible, until until the morning sun warms things up a bit.
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Plants Behaving Badly...
- Plants usually behave badly for a reason. And it's not usually their fault. All it takes is a tiny mistake or a small misjudgement on the part of the gardener. Overlooking the words 'ground cover' on the label is one such...
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Virtual Gardening...
- In reality I'm a very shy gardener. When friends come and ask to see the garden I shrink. Real visitors get the express tour, the quick whisk around in less than five minutes, the vague sweep of the hand alluding to new plantings over there. In virtuality...
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The Trailer...
- There is a wholesale nursery about two kilometers from my garden. They have a trailer which they fill with plant seconds, and this is put out on the side of the main road most Sundays...