Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
This may be my favourite vase of the year, featuring a few stems from each of this year’s cutting garden stalwarts: Zinnia, Verbena bonariensis, Dahlia, strawflowers and the very last gladiola to bloom. I feel a bit guilty posting this today because the flowers were cut and pictures taken two weeks ago, but the British […]
No, not those kind of jugs, the kind that can hold water, and can be used as a vessel for cut flowers, as in the garden meme hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden every Monday. I spotted this particular jug back in August at my favourite local vintage store and was struck by […]
It’s mid October and I can pillage and plunder the cutting garden with abandon. Cooler nights and shorter days mean the season is over, summer loving plants are winding down and before you know it we’ll have frost and snow. When I was asked to fill a few steins with autumnal blooms to decorate the […]
It’s Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and where I live it’s a bit chilly right now (9 Celsius, 42 Fahrenheit), very grey, windy, and raining. A fairly typical October day although when I think back to just a week ago, when it was 24 and sunny, it seems the leap to autumn has been quite […]
A different kind of frog helping out today’s vase of cut flowers.
When I read Cathy’s blog post at Rambling in the Garden this morning I was both both thrilled and intrigued by her vase of cut flowers. It features Canada Burnet – Sanguisorba canadensis – a North American native perennial, common to sunny wetlands or bogs. Here, in its native range, the blooms are long gone […]
Operators of a campground on the shores of Lake Ontario not far from here have apparently decided to shoot off fireworks every long weekend this year. Not a bad thing, unless your dog is one of those petrified by the loud bangs, and quite pretty from the back windows. I was reminded of the fireworks […]
Joining my kitchen windowsill collection of flower-filled smallish vases this past week has been a jug of severely cut down gladioli. I love glads – their colour tones, structure, how they open from the bottom, allowing you to pull off fading blooms but still keep the flower stalk going as higher up blooms open. I […]
More Dahlias this week, I’m afraid. Sorry! These pom pom flowers are just so cute that I’ve been pulling together a windowsill vase every five or six days, in addition to distributing the occasional bouquet to friends and neighbours. My milk glass cup with a frog at the bottom is perfect for this task, holding […]
More Dahlias, this time with Snapdragons, for this week’s vase of cut flowers.
County Gardening 