Garden Articles 2001

In 2001 the topics I'm writing articles about are more floriferous. I'm no longer worried about what the gardening books might suggest - I am almost a fully independent gardener! I still have rather too much I want to say, though...

Digital Garden Camera...
Sat 15th Dec 2001

The first weekend I had my new digital camera was a gardening write-off. I clicked and zoomed, composed and cropped, as the weeds grew. I discovered hidden treasures sprouting in unlikely places, colours I'd never seen before, and many new plants.

Stripes and Spots...
Sat 15th Dec 2001

Yesterday, cleaning up a hybrid flax which had reappeared after the autumn cut-back, I discovered the true symbolism of stripes.

Lawn Mowing...
Sun 2nd Dec 2001

Moosey loves green grass - it is easy on the eyes. The problem with grass is that to keep it green it needs to be watered and when you water grass it grows.

Garden Sales...
Tue 2nd Oct 2001

Whether we gardeners use common sense or calculator formulas, we all know the basic facts about garden centre sales. We can forget what we learnt about cost price and selling price in mathematics lessons.

Garden Colours...
Mon 1st Oct 2001

Colour in the garden is much harder to talk about than it should be, but I want to try...

Gardening Guilt...
Thu 27th Sep 2001

I remember the morning I went to move the Cistus. I was fully armed - sharp shovel, nippers, gumboots gleaming. My intentions were already documented in the early morning diary entry.

Daffodils...
Sat 8th Sep 2001

There were small pockets of daffodils already on the property when we first came to live at Mooseys. I've deliberately kept my relationship with daffodils as simple as possible.

Ordering Seeds...
Wed 20th Jun 2001

Winter is supposed to be a good time for sitting inside, warm in front of the log burner, eating hot bread and reading seed catalogues. Winter gardeners' imaginations are as fertile as the seeds they drool over...

Dahlias...
Sun 1st Apr 2001

From mid-summer on the dahlias in the garden start flowering. I don't have many varieties, certainly no exotic multicolored ones. My favourites are the large plants with simple flowers.

Repetition...
Thu 22nd Feb 2001

I was reading back over my diary the other day, nodding and clucking as I relived all those lost but faintly repetitive weekends...