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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Summer gardening...
- Summer in my lovely garden - yeay! Gardening, listening to the cricket... And Non-Gardening Partner on holiday - even better. I'm sure I can fill up his days with garden related tasks.
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Christmas Day 2025...
- Merry Christmas to my cats and dogs, friends and family. And to Non-Gardening Partner, who has promised to mow the lawns. I have been Christmas gardening : spreading compost, watering around the newly planted rugosas, and clearing more Lamium out to make space to buy more plants, hee hee...
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The Best of 2025...
- Here are my Best Of's for the year 2025. A mixture, to be sure, but all giving impact to this glorious gardening year.
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Leading up to Xmas......
- Have enjoyed some great gardening days in the days leading up to Christmas, doing what I need to do. But also doing a lot of smiling and relaxing. No need to rush
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Lost Gardening Tools......
- Time I did an inventory of all the gardening hand tools I've lost this year - secateurs, diggers, scrapers, breadknives, kitchen scissors, steak knives... The list goes on and on.
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Thunderstorms and messes......
- A very boisterous thunderstorm last night at bedtime, me in the cottage wondering how close it was getting, and if I should be a bit scared (not really, I decided). Then heaps of wonderful blobby, noisy rain fell for hours...
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Proper rain......
- The most wonderful thing happened yesterday. It really rained! Proper rain, vertical rain for ages, leaving huge puddles on the driveway and giving the garden a good soaking. Phew! Perfect timing (the irrigation pump is being fixed at the moment).
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An achievable goal?...
- Best to set an achievable goal. Today I hope to finish clearing the top area of the Wattle Woods. Just the top area - should be achievable. I can do this. Have already gone for a walk with my camera and seen more Alkanet to be dug out. Have my little hoses on the Camellias by the glass-house.
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Kiftsgate Rose...
- I bought a batch of old-fashioned white rambling roses second-hand, back in the day, and planted them to climb up large trees in my garden. The Driveway garden's Gleditsia was paired with the rambler Kiftsgate.
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Blame the Leopard Plant!...
- I blame the spotty leafed plant! I walk past the patch of Leopard plants each morning and night on my way to and from the cottage. I love to see them well watered, happy and thriving. This morning - aha! Had to take a photograph of the spottiest leaves...
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Not fair!...
- Aargh! It is simply not fair. I do my best. I tidy a border up and it looks magnificent. I get a bit lazy (gardenwise) and have just a few days off. While I'm off duty chaos and mess arrive and fill up the borders.
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Change-over time......
- It's flower change-over time. The lupins are almost finished (must trim the seed-heads), and now the day lilies are flowering. The ferns are full height (fat, green, and - well, ferny). Summer cricket has started, with test matches here in New Zealand and Australia to enjoy. Yeay for my little cricket radio...
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D is for......
- D is for December. D is for the Driveway gardens. And for Doing Things in my garden. This week I'm tidying around the edges of Driveway Garden borders. It's a beautiful area to walk around, to sit and read under the shady trees, or lie in the grass. As long as the edges have been trimmed!
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Semi-snoozing......
- No gardening for a few days - have been feeling a bit under the weather, semi-snoozing (and even sleeping) in the daytimes. Suspect some vague anti-gardening virus. Luckily short-lived, and I did manage to re-energise myself for my Jazz choir's sparkling concert on Friday night. So much fun, such good music.
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The Active Rose...
- The Active - what a strange name for a rose! But a rather lovely rose, a seedling of the old rose Mutabilis, bred by Ken Nobbs of Te Kauwhata, New Zealand in 1985.