Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I couldn’t imagine a list of favourite flowers from the past season not including Colchicum autumnale – sometimes called autumn crocus, but not to be confused with Crocus sativus. The later is also called autumn crocus since it also blooms in the fall, albeit later than the Colchicum. It has a much smaller bulb, the […]
Only afterour garden became a graveyardstrewn with shriveled leavesdid the white stem risefrom the hermetic bulb,displaying five lavender petals:Colchicum autumnale—a brilliant contradiction,out of phase, like an angelstrayed into Time, our world.- “Midwinter Notes” Lisel Mueller
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. […]
A few last minute arrivals to the garden…
The last weekend of summer brings the last few new blooms to the garden.
The first Colchicum of 2020 started to bloom yesterday. Heavy sigh…
Snapdragons are hitting their peak, days before frost is due while Colchicum continue to dazzle.