Hollyhocks are the star of this week’s garden!
Tag: Echinacea
Birth of a New Echinacea
This new Echinacea is a cross with E. paradoxa
Where are the Bees and Butterflies?
Where are the #bees and #butterflies this year?
Six on Saturday – Wilt Proof
What’s blooming mid summer in southeastern Ontario – in appreciation of plants that don’t mind a bit of drought.
Six on Saturday – receding floodwaters
After last weekend’s ice pellets and freezing rain came a full day of heavy rain – which stayed on top of the ice and caused quite a bit of flooding in the yard. Flooding isn’t unusual in the spring here, we have pretty bad overall drainage on the property despite a contractor’s promise several […]
Variations on a Theme – dipped in frost
It was a brilliant weekend on The County – just above freezing during the day, just below freezing at night, a bit of rain late Saturday, a lot of sun on Sunday. Pretty perfect. Sunday morning there was a very light frost covering everything; I went out just before the sun hit and melted it […]
Perennials Do It Too!
This is the time of year everyone on the eastern part of North America – and anywhere else there’s woods and forests with deciduous trees – goes gaga over fall foliage. Folks take road trips to the country or the hills wherever they may be to take it all in, and Instagram, blogs and Facebook […]
Tale of Two Echinaceas
I have to confess I don’t have just one favourite plant – I have dozens. And the list changes every year depending on things as mundane as the weather (too dry to produce many flowers, or, so dry the whole plant just dies) or as esoteric as did I grow it from seed (or it […]
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