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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A slight error......
- A slight error of judgment - left four bags of stinky horse manure in my car (windows shut tight), where they happily percolated in the sunshine for two days. Oh dear.
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Wellness......
- Friday morning - woke up with a fuzzy head, grumpy, hadn't sleep well (a very talkative knee). Walked over to the house through my lovely green garden. Felt instantly better, so did my knee. The wellness benefits of being in the garden...
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How good?...
- How good am I? This morning I removed three more huge loads of periwinkle mess from the Shrubbery. I also dug out some unhappy dahlias. I am on fire! Like my bonfire, which is burning merrily...
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Issues with the Shrubbery...
- Problems with the Shrubbery : the entrance to the hidden courtyard is blocked. The rustic garden benches therein are rotting and parts of the stone wall are coming apart. And periwinkle is rampant, smothering everything.
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Multi-layered......
- A bit of this, a bit of that... Autumn gardening is multi-layered, after all. One minute I'm picking beautiful roses, the next I'm carting annoying mess off to the bonfire.
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Thursdays......
- Thursdays in 2026 are (in theory) my lovely 'don't have to go anywhere' days. Yeay! Days of gardening, or reading, or mooching around doing nothing (hopefully not too many of these).
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Variety......
- Variety is the spice of autumn gardening life, yes? Three hot days, and now it's gone back down to nine degrees Celsius and is raining. Have been for a wet walk with the dogs, am back inside contemplating my day. What do I feel like doing? Gardening! Wrong answer.
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Hot, hot, hot......
- Non-Gardening Partner, sitting lazily in one of the breakfast chairs, informs me that temperatures could reach thirty degrees. So what would he like to do today? Finish trimming the Olearia hedge? Some chain-sawing? Or mow all the lawns? He didn't answer.
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Ridiculous......
- Ridiculous temperature variations - six degrees Celsius one day, twenty six the next. Can put a gardener into a bit of a tizz. What warmth-level of clothing is required? How many covers on the bed at night? It's not just the shrubs in the garden that can get a bit confused...
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A minimalist?...
- Yeay! The sun and I are both back in the garden, after several wet grey days. Should I let my gardening time be fluid, or should I get all serious and write a list? Hmm... A maxi-list? A minimal-list?
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Early autumn......
- Late summer seems to have transitioned into early autumn. The light has changed - gardeners notice such things. And so do people who sleep in garden cottages. Cooler nights, darker mornings, lots more reflective autumnal thoughts...
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Wonderful dahlias......
- The dahlias are filling my garden with wonderful flower colours - I am so glad I grow them. Memo to self : all the self-sown ones growing in silly places could be dug out and replanted. Sensible? Reward them for growing without making a fuss?
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Weeds in the compost......
- Something really unfair has happened - weeds are growing happily in the new compost I've been spreading. Stern words to self : sulking is not allowed. It will not improve the situation. What's needed is weeding, pure and simple, which I do really well.
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Stepping out......
- For interest, yesterday I counted my gardening steps. Four hundred from the Island Bed to the bonfire and back. Carried fifteen loads, plus six detours to pick up mess from the fence-line. I reckon I walked about three kilometers. And these are just gardening steps...
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New is easy......
- Back in the garden again after three weather-bound days - what do I feel like doing? Starting something new, hee hee. But I've stopped myself, and thought things through. Starting something new is easy, and mentally light. It takes much more inner strength and character to finish something...