Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
It’s Victoria Day in most of Canada, Patriot’s Day in Quebec, a holiday for many, and what would have been my late mother’s birthday. What better way to celebrate than joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden and enjoying a jug of cut spring flowers. Here are several tulips, two types of daffodil (‘Hawera’ with […]
It’s been a lovely and cool May so far, with enough rain to keep the soil moist and the grass very green and growing very quickly! Lower than normal temperatures also help prolong the spring bulb growing season, with daffodils being a prime example. Although a few of the early blooming varieties (Tête-à-Tête, Ice follies) […]
It seems I don’t have an orange vase in the house. I do; however, have this delightful orange travel cup in the kitchen cupboard. It’s not an ideal shape but it’ll do the job of showcasing these splendid Narcissus ‘Tahiti’ which have just started to bloom. It can also serve double duty in acting as […]
It’s minus something outside this morning and I’m tempted to light a fire in the wood stove since it’s not going to get much warmer for the next few days…or I might just let the propane furnace do its thing overnight knowing that sunshine will soon flood through windows, heating up the house and providing […]
I’m joining Cathy and other gardeners at Rambling in the Garden this week, sort of, in presenting cut flowers (or branches or grasses or seedheads) from their garden. ‘Sort of’ because although I intended to snip a few stems from this purchased pot of mini daffodils (likely ‘Tête-à-Tête;’ it’s a tad annoying that growers can’t […]
As you can see the snow is mostly melted away here, spring bulbs are popping up and although there’s nothing but clouds and rain in the forecast this week, yesterday and Saturday were sunny and a few degrees above freezing. I was able to spend a lot of hours outside pruning shrubs and trees, including […]
Has anyone read West with Giraffes? I’m just a few dozen pages in but I’m already loving this 2021 Lynda Rutledge novel, even if the font in this edition seems extremely small to my aged eyes. It’s the tale of how two giraffes survive a hurricane while en route to New York City in 1938, […]
Spring finally, officially at least, arrives on Friday. Snow has mostly melted away here, although there’s more in the forecast in the coming days and our last frost date is still nearly two months away. But we have snowdrops aplenty and, thanks to a few branches cut from a very large ‘Ottawa Early’ Forsythia and […]
When I reviewed my records of first frost and first snowfalls, I wasn’t surprised to notice 2025 sits right in the middle of early and late dates….so there’s no reason for me to be dismayed by how my garden looks today, no matter how bleak. I harvested the last carrots on Saturday, the last Brussels […]
Well. In my Saturday post I postulated that it would be a momentous weekend, and (sadly, it turns out) I was right. The Toronto Blue Jays lost the baseball World Series crown in a true heart breaker of a game, and we had the first hard frost of the year. My glowing Zinnia patch is […]