Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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 […]
Given it’s almost mid October and we’ve already had a couple nights of light frost, I thought I’d cut the two or three dozen best looking Zinnia blooms yesterday and bring them indoors to decorate today’s Thanksgiving dinner table. Better than having them turn to mush still standing in the garden! Butterflies and honey bees […]
A pair of fabulous pink Zinnias was blooming in the Zinnia patch last week so I cut one for today’s vase…took photos…uploaded to computer and realized this morning as I was writing this post that the fabulous one was at the ‘back’ of the vase and you can’t even see it. Happy I also took […]
A few weeks ago, I spotted two distinctive vessels at my favourite vintage shop – @wildoakvintage – The Wild Oak. One is a Made in Japan ceramic beauty with a perfectly round and perfectly sized opening for medium length stems and medium sized blooms. It’s also good, I discovered, for a small handful of dried […]
Two things coincided to help create this week’s vase (or jar, in this case) of cut flowers: a friend’s birthday and the emergence of Colchicum flowers. My friend didn’t realize a few people know his birth date – it’s not something he likes to impose on folks yet somehow, like magic, it’s there in my […]
Cathy, who writes Rambling in the Garden and hosts this weekly collection of flowers cut from our gardens, is featuring a plethora of pink blooms today. Quite by coincidence, I also chose, while strolling through my gardens late yesterday afternoon, pinkish flowers for my vase today. We’ve had a bit of rain in the past […]
A good friend is talking about planting a wildflower garden atop his new septic field, so I thought I’d get him started with seeds from Ratibida pinnata aka Prairie Coneflower aka Grey Headed Coneflower. I think I’ve mentioned before how easily they spread, seeding by themselves or with the help of a hand or two […]
Last week, when I mentioned that I had let my cut flowers rest in a jar of water for a few hours before arranging and photographing them, Cathy, at Rambling in the Garden, replied that she rarely has enough time to condition her own blooms before putting a vase together. It made me think that […]