Garden Articles

Gardeners often find it hard to talk to real people about their gardens. I'm hopeless. Give me a cat audience and I'll expound eloquently on any gardening topic. I'll very happily talk to myself (even out loud) about my gardening opinions and philosophies.

I love writing (I also keep a diary). In these articles I've written down all the things I'm too shy to say out loud. They contain a mixture of garden realities and spiritual philosophies, personal memories, hopes for the future, as well as my gardening moods and my gardening ego (fragile at times).

I've been building my garden for more than ten years now, and still every morning I'm continually amazed at its beauty and proud of my efforts. I'm always thinking about the garden, working or relaxing in it, or staring at the trees or borders out the house windows. I really am so very lucky. I hope you enjoy reading the articles I've written about my country garden.

Gardening Articles from 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...

Gardening Articles from 2001

Here are more gardening articles. 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...

Gardening Articles from 2002

Here are my garden articles from 2002. I am now a fully-feathered writer, ready to leave the nest and tackle any cutting-edge gardening topic. I've learnt that there's more to garden writing than repetitive flowery descriptions - but there's still so much I want to say...

Gardening Articles from 2003

Garden articles from 2003 are a little thin on the ground, but 2003 was a pretty peculiar year. The Moosey Garden was on hold - my garden writing represents the lull before the storm. Perhaps I thought I'd said it all before?

Gardening Articles from 2004

In 2004 I become a semi-retired gardener, and a garden writer in full glorious flight. Not content with faithfully reporting every gardening moment in my journals, I launch into writing articles nearly every week. There is so much to say...

Gardening Articles from 2005

In 2005 I start to seriously wonder if I have said everything there is to say about my garden. Perhaps I am getting boring in my garden-old age. But there are always new flights of gardening fancy, new gardening dreams and schemes...

Gardening Articles from 2006

Some things change, some things stay the same, and this gardener just can't seem to stop writing about her garden! Less time spent writing and more time spent designing, weeding, and planting would, in one of life's ultimate paradoxes, give more quality garden topics to write about. Writing which would then take time away from the garden...

Gardening Articles from 2007

I've nearly reached the tenth anniversary of garden writing, and still seem to have far too much to say. Gardening can get very repetitive - I hope this doesn't happen to my 2007 gardening articles! Speaking of repetition, I am allowed to write my yearly 'Have I Got Too Many Roses?' article - though one simple word would answer this question!

Gardening Articles from 2008

I'm still going strong, writing yet more and more articles about gardening. Writing is now a reward for working hard all day, or remembering to finish all the tasks on a garden list. And no - one can definitely not have too many roses. Or flaxes. Or spring flowering bulbs, Bergenias, Carexes...