Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Our perfect spring weather has produced extra tall flowers this May, and I’ve taken advantage of it by dusting off this tall Blue Mountain Pottery vase. It’s filled with tall bearded Iris, tall hybrid lupins, very tall Purple Sensation and Mt. Everest Alliums, a few Egyptian Walking Onion scapes already curling and fruzzy bronze fennel […]
I couldn’t resist the fragrance of Korean Spice Viburnum (V. carlesii) mingling with the similar smell of Narcissus Poeticus yesterday, and added a few of the last Narcissus ‘Quail’ – equally but differently smelling – and some bronze fennel fronds. These joined a clutch of tulips – ‘Queen of the Night’ and ‘Pittsburgh’ – to […]
A light rain fell all day yesterday, boughing down branches and pretty much everything else as well, so I was quick about cutting a few Leucojum and Narcissus ‘Quail’ stems. Summer Snowflake, with flowers eerily similar to Lily of the Valley (without the fragrance) are quickly reaching peak bloom; the bulbs multiply readily in my […]
Blue and white spring bulbs, together in a vase, on Monday…
Yellow, yellow everywhere – including in today’s vase of cut flowers.
I’m joining Cathy’s group at Rambling in the Garden‘s this week with my first windowsill vase of the year, featuring today the deep purple, blue and yellow of Hyacinth ‘Woodstock,’ Muscari latifolium and Narcissus ‘Jetfire.’ Perhaps it’s something to do with the mild winter we’ve just come through, but I’m noticing already more and larger […]
A few warm days and I’m tempted to start the spring clean-up…
I wanted to join Cathy’s brigade in her blog Rambling in the Garden with a large strong vase showcasing three amaryllis stems, but after so many weeks of watching the stalks and leaves grow, and protecting them from the cats (and vice versa of course), I couldn’t bring myself to just cut them off. Here […]
You know I have cats, right? And cats like to do cat things, like hop on tables. Nibble plants. Play with things that make crinkly noises. Which is why the strawflowers I dried last fall, the ones that escaped my cat Valjean’s midnight marauding, are high up on top of the dining room buffet-thingy, instead of on the living […]
It seemed a pity to leave the final ‘Crimson Bouquet’ rosebud out in the cold on Saturday, when I snapped these photos, so here it is, joining Agastache and Nigella seedheads as well as a last, lone Achillea flower cluster and a final few blooms from my strawflower ‘shrub.’ We’ve had several overnight frosts already, […]
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