Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I couldn’t imagine a list of favourite flowers from the past season not including Colchicum autumnale – sometimes called autumn crocus, but not to be confused with Crocus sativus. The later is also called autumn crocus since it also blooms in the fall, albeit later than the Colchicum. It has a much smaller bulb, the […]
Cathy lives on a mountainside in Germany, and to help chase away the cold and perhaps snowy and grey December doldrums she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from the past spring and summer. I looked for a flower photo that I hadn’t yet shared and came across the lovely […]
Only afterour garden became a graveyardstrewn with shriveled leavesdid the white stem risefrom the hermetic bulb,displaying five lavender petals:Colchicum autumnale—a brilliant contradiction,out of phase, like an angelstrayed into Time, our world.- “Midwinter Notes” Lisel Mueller
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 […]
Just getting this post in under the wire with less than an hour to spare before sundown, joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase of flowers cut from my garden. The flowers themselves were cut 12 hours ago, and I did take a few photos then, but wanted to also give them […]
On Wednesday I posted a couple shots of the first flowers opening on the umbel of an Allium cristophii. What struck me was how large that individual flower was, and how it was like a beacon, there to guide the rest of the flowers in the inflorescence as they waited to open. Yesterday I was […]
Lilacs and Solomon Seal (Polygonatum) are both just starting to bloom in my garden and I couldn’t resist snipping one stem of each for today’s vase. They’re joined by a few sprigs of Nepeta racemosa which, I admit, are totally lost in this arrangement. I had to cut them anyway – the clump has grown […]
County Gardening 