Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I wandered about the parched yarden late this afternoon, cutting a few stems for a jar I could enter in tonight’s Ameliasburgh Garden Club meeting floral competition – the theme was ‘Rainbow Arrangement.’ As much rain as we’ve had this summer (record setting!), it’s been dry and hot the past two weeks and much of […]
When I set out yesterday to snip some flowers for a vase (joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden), I fully intended to gather an armload of goldenrod (Solidago sp, it started to bloom about a week ago) and have spikes of Verbena bonariensis poking through the golden yellow cloud. The picture in my mind […]
I was at a local garden club meeting last Monday evening where Karen Legros was the guest speaker, talking about and demonstrating Ikebana. She’s studied it for more than 20 years and is an executive of the Toronto chapter of the Ohara (no apostrophe) School of Ikebana, which was founded in Japan in 1895. From […]
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what’s growing in our gardens; at the end of July, there’s plenty of blooms to choose from and my back porch cafe table is jammed with small jars and vases jostling for space amongst the ever growing resident Begonia and […]
‘b’ is for Verbena bonariensis. Dozens of small seedlings have now appeared, joining the very few seeds that germinated at the usual time earlier this year. Verbena ’til frost! ‘c’ is for Daucas carota – Queen Anne’s Lace or wild carrot – waving gracefully in garden beds, meadows and even unmowed sections of the lawn. […]
My small vase of flowers this week started as a ‘garden edit’ – I needed to thin out and push back a line of self-seeded Calendula bordering the kitchen garden so that a line of bush beans could get some sun and also so that, when the time comes, I’ll be able to actually, you […]
I woke up yesterday morning eager to find some red and white flowers in the garden to create a Canada Day theme for today’s vase of cut flowers, joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. It was foggy (I was tempted to title this post ‘Dew Point’) and not very warm (not very warm today, […]
Our perfect spring weather has produced extra tall flowers this May, and I’ve taken advantage of it by dusting off this tall Blue Mountain Pottery vase. It’s filled with tall bearded Iris, tall hybrid lupins, very tall Purple Sensation and Mt. Everest Alliums, a few Egyptian Walking Onion scapes already curling and fruzzy bronze fennel […]
I’m joining Cathy’s group at Rambling in the Garden‘s this week with my first windowsill vase of the year, featuring today the deep purple, blue and yellow of Hyacinth ‘Woodstock,’ Muscari latifolium and Narcissus ‘Jetfire.’ Perhaps it’s something to do with the mild winter we’ve just come through, but I’m noticing already more and larger […]
You know I have cats, right? And cats like to do cat things, like hop on tables. Nibble plants. Play with things that make crinkly noises. Which is why the strawflowers I dried last fall, the ones that escaped my cat Valjean’s midnight marauding, are high up on top of the dining room buffet-thingy, instead of on the living […]
County Gardening 