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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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?
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Organise the Dahlias......
- Forget garden maintenance - it's time I had a creative planting day. And planting is so very creative, laced with huge promises for the future. What to plant first? The dahlias!
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I love Thursdays!...
- Yeay! It's Thursday. I loooove Thursdays! Why? Because usually, most weeks, unless something unexpected pops up, I can stay home all day and enjoy my garden. But I use the word 'enjoy' with some caution. Have already done some deep garden-diving this morning, snug under the bedcovers...
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Easter 2026...
- Good morning, Easter Monday, looking a bit gloomy but comfortable - suitable for a big gardening day. I didn't do any Easter singing this year (am not sure whether or not I missed it). Much more time for Easter gardening (and saving on petrol, but I don't need to elaborate on that).
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Serene?...
- Aha! April, the proper autumn month, begins. In New Zealand it's crisp, golden, and serene (thanks to AI for searching through squillions of autumn descriptions and choosing these words). But serene? Alas, there are far too many things to do in April for me to feel very serene.
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Autumn colours?...
- I am reliably informed (ha ha, thanks again to AI) that autumn is a photogenic time of the year, so I have just wandered around the garden with my camera. Keeping a faithful pictorial record of the changing seasons is part of the gardening fun, after all.
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Settling in......
- Autumn is settling in. But my garden contains lots of evergreens, so amid the autumn golds there are still green leaves all around. This makes the changing colour spectrum even more beautiful.
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March......
- March is a beautiful time of the year to be in the garden. Not too hot, not too cold, the mellow golden colours of autumn starting to appear everywhere.
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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.