Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
After a slow start to the spring it seems we’re almost caught up to normal, gardening-wise. I looked at photos from this time last year and just a few flowering shrubs and small trees aren’t quite at the same stage. Dandelions, on the other hand, seem much more abundant than normal, but perhaps I say […]
The parade of daffs is coming to an end (but but not that quickly, happily, thanks to a cold front that came through a few nights ago) and the Hyacinths are all but done with. Now we have a few days wait for lilac, Allium, Cercis, Amalenchier and Lupine to bloom. It’s a brief pause […]
A month after spring officially started there’s finally enough happening in my garden to share six things, and to finally join Jim at Garden Ruminations again in his Six on Saturday meme.We had a nice cold temperatures and a decent amount of snow this past winter, for a change, I might add, which delayed by […]
It’s Thanksgiving Day in Canada, about a month earlier than in the U.S. because, you know, it’s generally colder here and harvests are mostly all in. Traditionally, it’s a day for turkey dinners with multiple veggie side dishes topped off with pumpkin pie, enjoyed with family and friends around a table dotted with multiple vases […]
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 […]
Remnants from another hurricane – Debbie, she was called – made it very wet in Eastern Canada yesterday. Happily, I took a few photos of the garden on Thursday so that I might join Jim at Garden Ruminations for Six on Saturday. I’ll start off with a few splashes of red – nice for hummingbirds […]
I braved hordes of hungry mosquitoes earlier this morning, in between swimming and gymnastics events being broadcast from Paris, to snap a few photos in my yarden, joining Jim at Garden Ruminations in this weekly worldwide roundup of What’s Happening in your Garden. We’ve had just a few drops of rain this week – the […]
A quick Six for a busy and beautiful weekend – to see six things in gardens all over the world take a look at our host’s site – Garden Ruminations. Mid July to mid August is prime coneflower season, including in my island bed which is chock full of mostly self seeded purple and white […]
Today’s vase of cut flowers started by Cathy, at Rambling in the Garden, including a beautiful Clematis flower in a vase she featured several weeks ago; the idea continued to grow with a comment from a blogging colleague in Texas who talked about a native Texan Clematis – Texensis of course – and how she […]
‘Remnants’ of Hurricane Beryl passed through the area on Thursday, leaving behind four inches of rain but, unlike other areas on the continent, no death or damage. (More than a million people near Houston, Texas, have been without electricity since Monday!) It’s rare for us, so far inland and so far north, to experience these […]