Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A fallen Cleome and too many coneflowers are a great excuse to make a vase of cut flowers.
Last year a beautiful white Cleome appeared on the side patio – a seed had germinated from flowers I had planted two years previously. It became a huge, multi-stemmed shrub last year, with a central stalk the diametre of a decent sized sunflower. As happens, I neglected to completely deadhead it and of course this […]
White Cleome sits pretty in today’s vase of cut flowers.
End of season blossoms make up this week’s vase of cut flowers.
My vase this week is one of a pair of glass milk jugs I’ve had lying around for a while. I don’t recall how they came into the house; likely they were the spoils of an afternoon spent visiting antique shops here in the County. There is no dairy by this name any longer, and […]
To me, Cleome looks like a plant from a science fiction story!