Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Anne Sandler, who writes Slow Shutter Speed, is hosting the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge this week and she’s asking for black and white or monochrome images. It may be coincidence, or perhaps synchronicity, but I had posted a black and white photo of my Annabelle Hydrangea last month, thinking that with white flower balls, it was […]
After all that rain, we finally have a gorgeous spring weekend! Perfect for gardening!!
Pots of Muscari on the windowsill brighten up the house on early spring days.
Some flowers are born for a close-up.
A native perennial I’ve loved since the moment I heard about it is the Compass Plant – Silphium laciniatum. I think my attraction was originally to the common name and then its striking height. It grows to about eight feet high in my garden some years, and its large basal leaves are said to point […]
For 49 weeks a year I think tall bearded Iris are a waste of garden space. Dandelions love to grow in impossibly tight spaces between their rhizomes. Leaves get tatty and mottled by the end of July, and are unremarkable the rest of the growing season. You’re supposed to divide the rhizomes every few years. […]
County Gardening 