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Garden Journal 2000

It may be the new millennium, but the year 2000 is just a normal gardening year. The garden keeps expanding, and I am definitely going through my stone edging phase.

January... Sat 1st Jan 2000: Weeds are weeded. Dead-heads are dead-headed. Edges are done. More weeds are weeded. More dead-heads are dead-headed. The same edges are done again, and so on it goes...
February... Sun 6th Feb 2000: Gorse seedlings are weeded out. Rhododendrons are planted, and the local nursery bargain bin is visited and revisited. New Zealand lose the cricket again...
March... Sat 4th Mar 2000: The tree lucernes come down. Bulbs for spring are purchased and planted, and beds are cleaned up, as the garden looks onward to colder days...
April... Sat 1st Apr 2000: The great holiday clean-up starts. Mail order plants arrive and more daffodils are bought. Much more garden space is needed, so Middle Border starts to expand...
Easter... Mon 24th Apr 2000: Easter arrives with Autumn, and the garden starts to slow down. The gardener also starts to slow down, and gets gloomy. The vegetable garden - potager plans revive her...
May... Sat 13th May 2000: The cut and chop back for winter continues, as the weather dictates the gardening activities. Plans for new borders are germinating, along with seeds in the glass-house, and there is a major project to erect a PERGOLA...
June... Sat 3rd Jun 2000: Winter settles in. Gardening before ten o'clock in the morning is seriously difficult, and the trees in the Hump are starting to block the sun. Both of my sons' birthdays are in June...
July... Sat 1st Jul 2000: I go to Australia to spend two weeks in the outback. Then back in New Zealand, I try to catch up on the chopping and pruning...
August... Fri 4th Aug 2000: The garden starts to hint at Spring. Frosts hopefully bring death to bugs, while the clear sunny days which follow bring joy to the gardener...
Early September... Sat 2nd Sep 2000: September brings lambs and daffodils and mail-order catalogues. It's a time of hope, enthusiasm and extreme optimism (and bare root roses at ridiculously low sale prices)...
Late September... Sun 17th Sep 2000: I love being on holiday in the Spring. There is such new hope in the garden at this tme of year.
Early October... Sun 1st Oct 2000: October is the gardening month which races by too quickly, almost leaving the gardener behind. Things are changing every day - tulips, camellias and rhododendrons are in and out of flower...
Late October... Sat 14th Oct 2000: We suffer tree damage in a big wind storm, with enough resulting firewood to fill two wood sheds.
Early November... Sat 4th Nov 2000: It's November! So much growth, so many changes, so many weeds, so many aphids...
Late November... Sun 12th Nov 2000: What to do with all those roses? And I keep needing more and more stones. I have gone stone-edge crazy.
Early December... Fri 1st Dec 2000: December means summer, family and Christmas, HOLIDAYS!, cricket, not working, the 2000-2001 Most Valuable Cat competition, not working and of course the garden...
Late December... Mon 18th Dec 2000: My real Christmas holiday begins - summer sun and wind, and days filled with cricket and reading - where is there any time for the garden?