Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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 […]
After a slow start to the spring it seems we’re almost caught up to normal, gardening-wise. I looked at photos from this time last year and just a few flowering shrubs and small trees aren’t quite at the same stage. Dandelions, on the other hand, seem much more abundant than normal, but perhaps I say […]
The parade of daffs is coming to an end (but but not that quickly, happily, thanks to a cold front that came through a few nights ago) and the Hyacinths are all but done with. Now we have a few days wait for lilac, Allium, Cercis, Amalenchier and Lupine to bloom. It’s a brief pause […]
A month after spring officially started there’s finally enough happening in my garden to share six things, and to finally join Jim at Garden Ruminations again in his Six on Saturday meme.We had a nice cold temperatures and a decent amount of snow this past winter, for a change, I might add, which delayed by […]
I titled last week’s vase V and Divas – referring to the Verbena bonariensis and Dahlias that were featured. There’s still a lot of ‘V’ in the garden, and I’m pairing it this week with a few round Nasturtium leaves. It still feels like late summer here with plenty of warm sunshine (for dragonflies, spiders […]
When I set out yesterday to snip some flowers for a vase (joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden), I fully intended to gather an armload of goldenrod (Solidago sp, it started to bloom about a week ago) and have spikes of Verbena bonariensis poking through the golden yellow cloud. The picture in my mind […]
Remnants from another hurricane – Debbie, she was called – made it very wet in Eastern Canada yesterday. Happily, I took a few photos of the garden on Thursday so that I might join Jim at Garden Ruminations for Six on Saturday. I’ll start off with a few splashes of red – nice for hummingbirds […]
I braved hordes of hungry mosquitoes earlier this morning, in between swimming and gymnastics events being broadcast from Paris, to snap a few photos in my yarden, joining Jim at Garden Ruminations in this weekly worldwide roundup of What’s Happening in your Garden. We’ve had just a few drops of rain this week – the […]
A quick Six for a busy and beautiful weekend – to see six things in gardens all over the world take a look at our host’s site – Garden Ruminations. Mid July to mid August is prime coneflower season, including in my island bed which is chock full of mostly self seeded purple and white […]
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