Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Aside from the usual things (family, friends, relative good health, a warm bed at night and food in the refrigerator), I’m also giving thanks that I live on a part of the continent that usually escapes the worst ravages mother natures throws out, global warming induced or not. I’m reading […]
There were dire warning Saturday and Sunday about imminent frosty nights and protect your tender garden things. I, however, generally don’t protect tender things in the fall. I breath a sigh of relief that I no longer have to water them or dead-head or check for bad bugs. I anticipate with glee more time to…I […]
I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden today with an ancient milk jug filled with too tall ironweed and grey coneflowers…they needed to be snipped as the ireonweed, in particular, was in danger of being smushed into the gravel driveway my an ill-aimed car tire or two. I was very happy to read that […]
More than 24 hours and 100 mm of rain later, the air is clear and skies are finally showing a bit of blue. Until the next round, it seems. The pattern most summers, this one included, is for rain clouds to travel north or south of us, leaving our soils parched and our trees and […]
This morning’s light drizzle has ended leaving an overcast sky – perfect for picture taking. I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase of daisy-like flowers. Echinacea purpurea is mostly past its prime but almost perfect blooms are still to be found, and pair well, I think, with Rudbeckia fulgida, which is […]
All weekend long, my weather app was screaming ‘Rain on Monday! Thunderstorms on Monday!’ Its tune had changed when I woke up this morning: ‘Cloudy with sunny periods. Sunny with cloudy periods.’ I should’ve known better. No excuse not to spend the day in the garden, watering, deadheading, planting autumn radishes, maybe a bit of […]
This is me, NOT complaining about snipping flowers in the rain, or about the almost three inches (75 mm) we’ve received since noon yesterday. For once, the weather forecasters were right…well, maybe not, since it was all supposed to end overnight. Trees are ecstatic I’m sure, as is my veggie garden and all the flowers […]
There comes a time most summers (i.e. those years with enough rain) when things in the garden are so lush and large that walking along several of the pathways just isn’t fun anymore. And with my local garden club adding my garden as a stop on their annual member’s tour last Saturday it was high […]
It’s early on a Monday morning, it’s crisp outside but the day will be sunny and warm, and I’m joining Cathy, from Rambling in the Garden with photos I took over the weekend of a vase of cut flowers from my garden. I was actually inspired by another North American gardener, Eliza Waters, who last […]
I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a Hyacinth jar filled with early summer blooms. I didn’t give much thought to colour – but did want to showcase Allium cernuum – nodding onion – with its burst of falling mauve/purple flowers, which is the first of the smaller summer alliums, and the orange/yellow […]