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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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...
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My new Phormium cutting knife......
- What to do first in my garden today? After I've put on my gardening shorts and boots, that is. How about some more Phormium slicing? I have a new serrated breadknife to try out - sourced from the Op Shop, cost FOUR dollars. Gardening hand tools are SO expensive these days...
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Speckles is smoochy!...
- It's February 2026. I have now been feeding wild cat Speckles for just over four years, as regularly as he bothers to turn up. There was an important breakthrough in our relationship last week. So exciting. Speckles actually walked over my lap. AMAZING!
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Who cares what the date is!...
- Friday 13th was just another great gardening day for me. Didn't realise the date until after dinner time, so no chance to be remotely superstitious. Great gardening days don't care which number they've been assigned...
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Sitting down on the job!...
- I love doing sit-down gardening. My knees talk to me in the night if I've been kneeling. My hips join in if I've done too much ducking and diving. So sitting in the dirt suits me just fine. Quiet nights!
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Guilty?...
- Had the day off the garden yesterday. This morning I felt a bit guilty, so decided I needed to work extra hard. Really silly - am allowed a day of rest (as long as I water the pots of tomatoes). So there.
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Continuing......
- So what am I going to do today? Continue what I was doing yesterday. Gardeners are always continuing something or other. So I'm going back over by the Hen House to work in the shade...
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Checking the poultry......
- Today's first task should be to weed and clean up Henworld, and to check on the poultry. A weedy grass which came into my garden with some Agapanthus I planted there needs to be pulled out. ASAP. BISS. Before it sets seeds.