Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I titled last week’s vase V and Divas – referring to the Verbena bonariensis and Dahlias that were featured. There’s still a lot of ‘V’ in the garden, and I’m pairing it this week with a few round Nasturtium leaves. It still feels like late summer here with plenty of warm sunshine (for dragonflies, spiders […]
Last year I purchased a few Nicotania bedding plants, wanting them to fill in some bare spots left by spring bulb foliage dying back. They survived but I wasn’t really satisfied with them so I purchased some seed and started them myself, indoors, in the spring. Nictoania seeds are tiny and need light to germinate, […]
My small vase of flowers this week started as a ‘garden edit’ – I needed to thin out and push back a line of self-seeded Calendula bordering the kitchen garden so that a line of bush beans could get some sun and also so that, when the time comes, I’ll be able to actually, you […]
I spent an hour or so early last Friday morning watching the first annual poppy of the year pop into bloom. It’s called Lauren’s Grape, Papaver somniferum, obviously for the colour, but I wondered who Lauren is? Is it a real person? Are they alive? I went down the internet rabbit hole early this morning […]
You know I have cats, right? And cats like to do cat things, like hop on tables. Nibble plants. Play with things that make crinkly noises. Which is why the strawflowers I dried last fall, the ones that escaped my cat Valjean’s midnight marauding, are high up on top of the dining room buffet-thingy, instead of on the living […]
It’s Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and where I live it’s a bit chilly right now (9 Celsius, 42 Fahrenheit), very grey, windy, and raining. A fairly typical October day although when I think back to just a week ago, when it was 24 and sunny, it seems the leap to autumn has been quite […]
It’s been at least a month since our last half decent rainfall; the garden is parched and looking unnaturally tired and floppy and my rain barrels are almost empty. Good thing it’s the end of the growing season! I’ve continued to use rain barrel water for the pots on the back porch though – how […]
A different kind of frog helping out today’s vase of cut flowers.
County Gardening 