Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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, […]
Another soggy Saturday – glad to have cut the grass yesterday; also glad to have taken a few flower photos so that I can again join Jim and his crew with Six on Saturday – six things in the garden this week. I’ll start with these Asiatic lilies – ‘Tinilco’ – now at their peak. […]
Challenging photo-taking conditions this morning – blustery and cloudy with rain drops here and there. I tried to shoot today’s vase indoors with not much luck so out we went again. Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts the weekly garden meme In A Vase On Monday, featuring flowers from our gardens. […]
I remember last week with fondness….it was chilly at night, sunny and warm during the day. Perfect late spring conditions for doing just about anything outdoors. Then the heat dome creeped in and summer arrived like a switch being turned on…ugh! We have survived, of course, and so has the garden. In fact, the high […]
Officially summer next week, with temperatures forecast to be very summer-like, but this week it’s still spring, with very cool days that have helped blooms last longer and two inches of rain Thursday overnight, encouraging the veggies, in particular, to put on bursts of growth. Jim hosts SIx on Saturday at Garden Ruminations and I’ll […]
About a month ago, as the leaves on my yellow tree peony (planted in 2019, on the label it’s called Poaeonia suffruticosa yellow) were expanding and flower buds getting ready to burst open, I noticed a few leaves that looked quite different. Following the stem down it appeared to come from the base of the […]
It was a cool and slightly damp weekend here, perfect for gardening, really, and of course I was outside much of the time, mowing and trying to keep the garden under some sort of control. That meant pulling up or cutting back some of the Ox Eye daisies that spread so easily here and, in […]
There’s a diminutive pink rose that you can spot this time of year at the side of country roads, where there’s a bit of shade from a tree line or woods. I’ve noticed it once or twice at the edges of my property as well, but just now and then…it hasn’t been spectacularly showy. But […]
I know. It’s June. There are SO many flowers in the garden right now I could easily fill a dozen or three vases with fresh cut blooms. But still, what to do with the spent flowers, the stems I’d normally cut back and leave to decompose or cart out to the compost pile, when those […]