Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Last year a beautiful white Cleome appeared on the side patio – a seed had germinated from flowers I had planted two years previously. It became a huge, multi-stemmed shrub last year, with a central stalk the diametre of a decent sized sunflower. As happens, I neglected to completely deadhead it and of course this […]
The garden is still snow covered, but here’s a vase of dried flowers for the first day of spring.
It’s Thanksgiving Monday here in Canada; we had friends for turkey dinner yesterday, with all the traditional fixings and a vase of cut, end of season, flowers fresh from the garden. You know it’s end of the season because zinnias aren’t looking that great while dahlias are looking better than ever. As part of Cathy’s […]
Leaves are starting to change colours…
Eager and organized gardeners have been collecting seeds for months now, saving pods and capsules from bulbs, perennials, annuals and bulbs as they ripened, or letting them get mushy (tomatoes) or go to seed without deadheading (lupins, alliums) to collect seeds. Other gardeners (ie me) forget, can’t be bothered, procrastinate until it’s too late, or, […]
Bright pink and fluorescent orange are the non-complimentary colours in today’s vase of cut flowers.
White Cleome sits pretty in today’s vase of cut flowers.
A had a few early sunflowers this year, volunteers that sprouted in April and were in full bloom by the end of June. Only one of the seeds I actually planted in the garden even germinated, and it was nipped in the bud, so to speak, when it was only a few inches high, So […]
The very photogenic strawflower has a vase to itself this week.
County Gardening 