Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I’m going back a year and a half this week. Not exactly keeping with my winter theme, I know, but I don’t think I’ve shown my garden like this before. I was on the roof on August 5, 2023, exploring some noises I had heard (just birds in the gutters, it seemed) and of course […]
Seven or eight years ago, a neighbour down the road let me dig up a clump of the yellow Primula that dotted his property in the spring. Saved him pulling it out himself, he said, because it had self-seeded throughout his large but not completely well-cultivated vegetable garden. I planted the small clump near the […]
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. […]
Year to year, the weather at the end of December is totally unpredictable!
Rain has encouraged a growth spurt for some things while volunteer sunflowers and cantaloupe grow tall and strong.
July rain has means a happy garden! Sunflowers, daylilies and Echinacea are all looking great.