Here’s the thing: when you have a large garden, filling it with perennials is expensive!
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it’s all about the daffodils…
Late April in the garden means yellow everywhere – Narcissus in all sizes plus Forsythia and the early Tulips. I love it! As a bonus, it looks like the Fritillaria persica will bloom! One of them, anyway…really looking forward to seeing up close and in person what they look like, then putting in more […]
A New Year
Wow – it’s hard to believe the winter of 2016-17 is over….And the miracle of plant life is starting to begin. This year I’ll be documenting one of the larger micro gardens in the yard – what I call the Island Garden because the driveway circles around it. This piece of land started as half […]
Oenothera biennis
Even in dead of winter some wildflowers (what are often called weeds…) have an entrancing architectural form, such as the Evening Primrose shown above. I love how it echoes the strong vertical lines of the trees in the background and how the stems curve inwards at the top, as if trying to grasp any patches […]
Small Pleasures
I have a neighbour who generally heads south for two or more months every winter. This year his departure was delayed a bit and every sentence that came from his mouth during those weeks was a variation on “I hate winter.” He hates the cold, he hates the snow, he hates the ice, he hates […]
Winter…
Winter has sort of arrived in Prince Edward County. The past few months have seen temperatures hover around zero Celsius – one day snow, the next day rain…. the 14 day forecast says nothing above freezing but who knows! The good news is that sump pumps everywhere are going non stop and water is once […]
Magnolia Fever!
I was gven a few seeds for unusual (to Southern Ontario) Magnolia seeds; I scarified them, potted them, planted the seedlings in a holding garden then transplanted them to Prince Edward County. Now, about 12 years later, I get flowers every year from these trees. Magnolia acuminata, Cucumber Magnolia, has beautiful yellow flowers mid spring. […]
New Beginnings…
A new micro garden, new Peony shoots…
Colchicum
I really love these bulbs. They come in a handful of varieties – white or pink or purple flowers. I love this one – I had it in my Toronto backyard for about 10 years and it kept getting bigger and bigger. Transplanted it this past spring and here it is in The County garden, […]
Asters
One of the many reasons I love Autumn is the Asters that suddenly make a colourful appearance. It’s weird, because they’ve been there all year, sending green stalks up through the meadow or at the edge of the field and sometimes even in the middle of the garden. Yet come September when the blues and […]
County Gardening 