Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Such a momentous weekend: most of the country falls back to standard time tonight, giving us an extra hour of sleep tomorrow and making winter mornings brighter, earlier; the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team has transformed the city (and the country!) into a blue tinged cauldron of joy as they battle to be World Series […]
Fall colours are muted around here this year, possibly because of the months with no rain over the summer, but there’s still a lot of lovely yellows and oranges with pops of bright red showing on certain trees, such as sumac and red maple. When it comes to yellow, we think of other types of […]
It would be disingenuous for me to claim that a dry late summer has made the garden (and, by extension, me) miserable when, in fact, it’s looking and perhaps feeling quite content. There’s been enough rain to fill the rain barrels which has allowed me to water the raised beds and containers and new trees […]
We’ve had some rain; not enough to satisfy thirsty trees and shrubs but enough to wake grass and dandelions from summer dormancy. The damage was done though, and let me say it just once: leaves turned red or brown and fell in August; some flower stalks are half the height they’d normally be; sow thistle […]
Last week, when I mentioned that I had let my cut flowers rest in a jar of water for a few hours before arranging and photographing them, Cathy, at Rambling in the Garden, replied that she rarely has enough time to condition her own blooms before putting a vase together. It made me think that […]
Week whatever of our summer drought. Areas north, south, east and west of us have been getting the odd thundershower but my County, or at least my part of it, jutting down into Lake Ontario as it does, has had just a few drops, literally, of rain the the past many weeks. Think crispy, dust […]
It seems insensitive to complain about our weather (very hot, very humid, very dry) considering so many other places in the world have experienced worse this summer, but let me just say my rain barrels are almost empty and I fear for my tomatoes. I was wandering about the garden early yesterday morning and noticed, […]
Peonies are opening this week, bringing blocks of red, pink and white to the garden, but there are many interesting purple flowers open as well, including a pair of Geraniums that were supposed to be pink. I’ll start with this Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Ingwersens Variety.’ At least, that’s what the label on the pot said when […]
Although a cold front moved in overnight and this morning it’s quite cool, wet and blustery, yesterday was glorious. I was able to do some mowing (although there’s still a lot of very soggy chunks of the yard I can’t get the mower into), some planting (although the tomatoes are still waiting to be transplanted…maybe […]
Holy macaroni it’s been cold this month! The coldest May since the 1960’s, in fact. Not that we’ve had snow or even frost (unusual in itself) but that daytime highs have struggled to reach double digits and nighttime lows have consistently been between plus four and eight – not conducive to planting tomatoes or most […]
County Gardening 