Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
This morning, it’s raining…YAAY!!! We’ve been without for about six or seven weeks so I’m really happy that trees and shrubs, in particular, will be able to drink up before frost arrives and the ground freezes, usually sometime this month. As you can imagine, without rain or supplemental watering most of the garden has been […]
One of the first things I planted in my ‘Island’ bed after we purchased this property was a Pagoda Dogwood, Cornus alternifolia, that I dug out of my backyard in Toronto, where it had lived for just a year after being transplanted as a two food sapling from a friend’s property north of the city. […]
Garlic Chives – Allium tuberosum – the last Allium to bloom in my garden.
My yard will be awash in yellow for the next few weeks, surpassing May, with its scores of daffodils, and even June, before its thousands of dandelions turn to fluff. It’s the season for goldenrod, now starting to bloom around the yard edges and in every unmowed ditch or corner, and more ostentatious yet, a […]
Xerochrysum bracteatum, aka strawflowers, aren’t shrubs, of course, but the one I have growing in my kitchen garden right now sure thinks it is! I’ve started them from seed the past few years but this spring they didn’t make the cut, given my reduced indoor growing space due to new, very curious cats in the […]
