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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Gardening robots?...
- Oh crikey. I need some gardening robots! I want to do lots of things, all at once. Finish clearing the path behind the cottage and take to the bonfire. Work in the water race while the water flow is turned off. Plant the two Blushing Pink Iceberg roses...
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Goodbye Speckles......
- Today I am working behind Pond Cottage. There's a small path I want to clear. And I want to concentrate on Speckles my stray cat, to see if a) I can miraculously sense his presence or b) find his body. Speckles is seriously missing, presumed dead. Am very sorry.
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Planting the new roses......
- Yeay for me and yeay for another Thursday, my stay-at-home in the garden day, the day when I should have loads of gardening energy, plans, ideas, and so on. So what to do first? No need to ask - I have new roses to plant. But where to plant them? Somewhere sunny, open, full of fresh air...
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Not easy!...
- Oh joy! Well, not exactly. Firstly, Non-Gardening Partner has kindly shared his Canadian Head Cold with me. Not so pleasant. Secondly I have been beavering away removing more Iris confusa chengdu. This is NOT EASY. Whoever said that this plant was 'easily controlled' is welcome to visit my garden and assist...
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Feeling slow......
- Usually I wake up on a Thursday morning full of energy and rave on about how I love Thursdays. I am still loving this one, but I'm feeling a little slow. So is Speckles my stray cat, who slept the night in his cat basket, but is moving very slowly on the verandah this morning. He is extremely hissy, even more than usual. Hope he is OK.
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The beginning of the end?...
- Went outside in a good mood to admire the newly cleared Willow Bridge. Humph. Scuttled back inside in a gardening dilemma. Not happy. What to do about the creeping Iris Confusa Chengdu, looking so messy? I think it is the beginning of the end...
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Impulsive?...
- This morning I was impulsive. Really? How very surprising! I ordered some sale price roses online - Archduc Joseph, a couple of Blushing Pink Icebergs (to replace the dead standards by Willow Bridge), plus Windrush, Imogen, and The Pilgrim.
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Lists and Visitors......
- Am inspired to get lots of things done today. Then I can enjoy the lovely visitors (and dog) who are coming tomorrow. Aha! A list is required. A simple and precise list. Here it is :
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New plants for free......
- New plants for free! About nine months ago I was given a trailer load of free Agapanthus clumps. I sliced them into divisions to mass plant, and deliberately threw the remaining root clumps under the boundary hedge to percolate (you know what I mean).
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Late roses......
- Have been house-bound for the last three days, kept away from the garden by a wintry blast and cold rain. But the late autumn roses are still so beautifully colourful. Yeay! They cheer me up immediately, reminding me that it's not quite winter yet.
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Semi-ancient?...
- Those Dutch Iris bulbs I thought were all planted - the birds have had a frenzied scratching party and dug them all up. And now I've found another huge bowlful in the garage. Hmm... Strange how I was given so many by two different gardening friends, in the same week. They are meant to grow in my garden? Not if the birds have anything to do with it...
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Speckles actually purred!...
- Possibly the nicest five seconds I've experienced all year, sitting on the verandah this morning with a cup of tea and Speckles my stray cat. As I was gently patting his head, he closed his eyes and actually purred. The first time ever- a proper purring noise. For five glorious seconds!
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MY day!...
- Today is THE day! It is MY day! It's Thursday, the day that I don't go out. Yeay! I am an old woman going nowhere (particularly not to the dentist), and that's a wonderful feeling.
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Rotten luck......
- The two rustic garden benches which sit in the Shrubbery's sandy little courtyard have rotten pieces of wood. I'm going to replace rotten with non-rotten and rebuild just one of them. I've only ever sat in here with a cat for company, so one is enough.
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A Manitoba Maple!...
- Today is a bit drizzly, and I'm never sure what I feel like doing in the garden when it's a bit drizzly. The bonfire? Weeding? Pulling out more Periwinkle? All of the above?