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, […]
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 spent an hour or so early last Friday morning watching the first annual poppy of the year pop into bloom. It’s called Lauren’s Grape, Papaver somniferum, obviously for the colour, but I wondered who Lauren is? Is it a real person? Are they alive? I went down the internet rabbit hole early this morning […]
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 […]
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 […]
I imagine if I go through my blog posts from years gone by I’ll come across the phrase ‘…never looked better…’ quite often, but truly, this year my spring garden has never looked better! Flower stalks seem taller, colours seem more vibrant, critter damage is much less obvious…perhaps my eyes are getting older and my […]
Two thirds through spring, daffs and tulips are all but gone and, for a week or two, flowering shrubs take centre stage. Let’s start with a prologue though, an amuse-bouche for the eyes as I join Jim at Garden Ruminations in showcasing six things in my garden today. The first is Camassia quamash in front […]
County Gardening 