Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A pair of fabulous pink Zinnias was blooming in the Zinnia patch last week so I cut one for today’s vase…took photos…uploaded to computer and realized this morning as I was writing this post that the fabulous one was at the ‘back’ of the vase and you can’t even see it. Happy I also took […]
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 […]
A few weeks ago, I spotted two distinctive vessels at my favourite vintage shop – @wildoakvintage – The Wild Oak. One is a Made in Japan ceramic beauty with a perfectly round and perfectly sized opening for medium length stems and medium sized blooms. It’s also good, I discovered, for a small handful of dried […]
Only afterour garden became a graveyardstrewn with shriveled leavesdid the white stem risefrom the hermetic bulb,displaying five lavender petals:Colchicum autumnale—a brilliant contradiction,out of phase, like an angelstrayed into Time, our world.- “Midwinter Notes” Lisel Mueller
The garden has been SO BUSY for the past two weeks. All the local honey bees, wasps, hornets, other bees and butterflies seem to have found the goldenrod and sedum that have been in full bloom. Asters have just started so there will be pollen and nectar for a few more weeks. (Still not enough […]
Two things coincided to help create this week’s vase (or jar, in this case) of cut flowers: a friend’s birthday and the emergence of Colchicum flowers. My friend didn’t realize a few people know his birth date – it’s not something he likes to impose on folks yet somehow, like magic, it’s there in my […]
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 […]
County Gardening 