Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
All weekend long, my weather app was screaming ‘Rain on Monday! Thunderstorms on Monday!’ Its tune had changed when I woke up this morning: ‘Cloudy with sunny periods. Sunny with cloudy periods.’ I should’ve known better. No excuse not to spend the day in the garden, watering, deadheading, planting autumn radishes, maybe a bit of […]
This is me, NOT complaining about snipping flowers in the rain, or about the almost three inches (75 mm) we’ve received since noon yesterday. For once, the weather forecasters were right…well, maybe not, since it was all supposed to end overnight. Trees are ecstatic I’m sure, as is my veggie garden and all the flowers […]
It’s early on a Monday morning, it’s crisp outside but the day will be sunny and warm, and I’m joining Cathy, from Rambling in the Garden with photos I took over the weekend of a vase of cut flowers from my garden. I was actually inspired by another North American gardener, Eliza Waters, who last […]
I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a Hyacinth jar filled with early summer blooms. I didn’t give much thought to colour – but did want to showcase Allium cernuum – nodding onion – with its burst of falling mauve/purple flowers, which is the first of the smaller summer alliums, and the orange/yellow […]
Just as the first heat wave of the summer sets in, these ‘cool weather’ Ranunculus are looking very pretty right now. A neighbour started and gave me three plants in April. They were just a few small leaves, then a few more small leaves, then all of a sudden these thick stalks emerged out of […]
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling in the Garden invites gardeners to share photos of a container of any sort showcasing things from the garden. Our cool June temperatures have made it possible for these lovely, huge double (and triple? Quadruple?) red peonies to keep their queenly appearance, so I’m using the same jug as last […]
With thunderstorms and heavy rain in the forecast for most of yesterday, I was out early in the morning, before the skies darkened, to snip and photograph these queens so that they can take their proper place in Cathy’s Monday collection of cut flowers. As you can see, they haven’t opened all the way…I’m hoping […]
I covered myself head to toe a short while ago to venture out amidst the mosquitos and snip a dozen Siberian Iris stems to fit into the frog holes at the top of this green glass vase. I’m still scratching a few welts on the top of my hand, the shutter release hand while I […]
I’m joining Cathy, of Rambling in the Garden fame, this week showcasing small things from my spring garden for In a Vase, on Monday. ‘Small things’ because, a few days ago, I happened to notice while mowing out back that my small patch of Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis) has been slowly expanding despite […]
It’s Victoria Day in most of Canada, Patriot’s Day in Quebec, a holiday for many, and what would have been my late mother’s birthday. What better way to celebrate than joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden and enjoying a jug of cut spring flowers. Here are several tulips, two types of daffodil (‘Hawera’ with […]