Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
This is me, NOT complaining about snipping flowers in the rain, or about the almost three inches (75 mm) we’ve received since noon yesterday. For once, the weather forecasters were right…well, maybe not, since it was all supposed to end overnight. Trees are ecstatic I’m sure, as is my veggie garden and all the flowers […]
Silphium laciniatum – Compass plant: Silphium perfoliatum – Cup plant:
And we are ALREADY done with seven twelfths of the year!! And what do I have to show for it?? A few neglected parts of the garden have received some TLC, with one or two more projects in the works. On paper, anyway. The Brussels sprouts have never looked better, thanks to cabbage moths being […]
There comes a time most summers (i.e. those years with enough rain) when things in the garden are so lush and large that walking along several of the pathways just isn’t fun anymore. And with my local garden club adding my garden as a stop on their annual member’s tour last Saturday it was high […]
Keeled garlic, witch’s garlic, Allium carinatum, is the last of the alliums to bloom in my garden. Native to much of Europe, it’s quite unobtrusive when the flower atop it’s nearly two foot (60 cm) stem is seen in isolation. But when allowed to self seed, it can form a quite fabulous drift of mauve […]
It’s early on a Monday morning, it’s crisp outside but the day will be sunny and warm, and I’m joining Cathy, from Rambling in the Garden with photos I took over the weekend of a vase of cut flowers from my garden. I was actually inspired by another North American gardener, Eliza Waters, who last […]
We had a few very hazy, smokey days earlier this week, with more to come, we’re told – I’m NOT complaining about it! – my heart breaks seeing on TV images of wildfires blazing through northern Ontario, 700 – 1,000 kms from here, and people fleeing as their homes and livelihoods are destroyed. Not to […]