Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Declaring that you have a favourite flower in your garden just may be a bit like admitting you have a favourite child. If said out loud there may just be silence in the room, perhaps a muted gasp or two, averted eyes, a nervous giggle, curious looks…. I mean, out of the dozens or perhaps […]
Colonies of Canada Mayapple – Podophyllum peltatum – can be found in the woods across the eastern part of North America, from Ontario and Quebec down to north Texas. They spread both by seed and by underground rhizomes, and I’m lucky enough to have a few small colonies on my property. The low, wide leaves […]
There’s a diminutive pink rose that you can spot this time of year at the side of country roads, where there’s a bit of shade from a tree line or woods. I’ve noticed it once or twice at the edges of my property as well, but just now and then…it hasn’t been spectacularly showy. But […]
You know those packets of free seeds you get sent sometimes by charities hoping you’ll reciprocate with a donation? Or from a breakfast cereal giveaway promoting itself as ‘green’ and wanting to spread ‘native’ wildflower seeds all around the country? The problem with the giveaways, of course, is that a plant may be native to […]
One of the first things I planted in my ‘Island’ bed after we purchased this property was a Pagoda Dogwood, Cornus alternifolia, that I dug out of my backyard in Toronto, where it had lived for just a year after being transplanted as a two food sapling from a friend’s property north of the city. […]
Xerochrysum bracteatum, aka strawflowers, aren’t shrubs, of course, but the one I have growing in my kitchen garden right now sure thinks it is! I’ve started them from seed the past few years but this spring they didn’t make the cut, given my reduced indoor growing space due to new, very curious cats in the […]
I have four rose bushes…
A pair of Amaryllis stand proud in a corner of the dining room.
Whoever thought earwigs were beneficial insects?
County Gardening 