Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I’m joining Cathy this week as she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from this past spring and summer – all with the goal of making a cold and perhaps grey and snowy December a bit more bearable. Gardening these days is much more than growing pretty flowers; it’s about […]
I’m joining Cathy this week as she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from the past spring and summer – all with the goal of making a cold and perhaps grey and snowy December a bit more bearable. I’ve been looking for flower photos that I haven’t yet shared, and […]
Cathy lives on a mountainside in Germany, and to help chase away the cold and perhaps snowy and grey December doldrums she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from the past spring and summer. I looked for a flower photo that I hadn’t yet shared and came across the lovely […]
When I reviewed my records of first frost and first snowfalls, I wasn’t surprised to notice 2025 sits right in the middle of early and late dates….so there’s no reason for me to be dismayed by how my garden looks today, no matter how bleak. I harvested the last carrots on Saturday, the last Brussels […]
My Zinnias were toasted by the first hard frost Saturday night. At first light Sunday morning they resembled frosted flakes.
Well. In my Saturday post I postulated that it would be a momentous weekend, and (sadly, it turns out) I was right. The Toronto Blue Jays lost the baseball World Series crown in a true heart breaker of a game, and we had the first hard frost of the year. My glowing Zinnia patch is […]
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 […]
County Gardening 