Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A few weeks ago, I spotted two distinctive vessels at my favourite vintage shop – @wildoakvintage – The Wild Oak. One is a Made in Japan ceramic beauty with a perfectly round and perfectly sized opening for medium length stems and medium sized blooms. It’s also good, I discovered, for a small handful of dried […]
A few warm days and I’m tempted to start the spring clean-up…
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 […]
The garden is still snow covered, but here’s a vase of dried flowers for the first day of spring.
Nothing freshly cut this week – just dried flowers and twigs in this week’s vase.
I don’t recall ever seeing a Where’s Waldo puzzle (apparently originally called Where’s Wally, in Britain) but from what I gather, it involves finding a funny man who is camouflaging himself in various situations. Since the house still has colourful poinsettias in bloom, Amaryllis stalks shooting skyward with flower buds quickly swelling and a half […]