Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
After making many comments in December and at the beginning of January about the lack of snow again this winter, I’m forced to eat my words. The past few weeks have, so far, been very Canadian wintery-like, with cold nights and a snowfall every few days. There are rabbit tracks galore in the garden and […]
I titled last week’s vase V and Divas – referring to the Verbena bonariensis and Dahlias that were featured. There’s still a lot of ‘V’ in the garden, and I’m pairing it this week with a few round Nasturtium leaves. It still feels like late summer here with plenty of warm sunshine (for dragonflies, spiders […]
At my nephew’s wedding a few weeks ago, each place setting had a teeny tiny jar of this most delicious hazelnut spread waiting to be taken home and enjoyed. It was indeed delicious, and the jar, I thought, even with its super-glued-on label, would make a perfect container for a few small blooms. Here it […]
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, […]