Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Given it’s almost mid October and we’ve already had a couple nights of light frost, I thought I’d cut the two or three dozen best looking Zinnia blooms yesterday and bring them indoors to decorate today’s Thanksgiving dinner table. Better than having them turn to mush still standing in the garden! Butterflies and honey bees […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Cathy, who writes Rambling in the Garden and hosts this weekly collection of flowers cut from our gardens, is featuring a plethora of pink blooms today. Quite by coincidence, I also chose, while strolling through my gardens late yesterday afternoon, pinkish flowers for my vase today. We’ve had a bit of rain in the past […]
A good friend is talking about planting a wildflower garden atop his new septic field, so I thought I’d get him started with seeds from Ratibida pinnata aka Prairie Coneflower aka Grey Headed Coneflower. I think I’ve mentioned before how easily they spread, seeding by themselves or with the help of a hand or two […]
Last week, when I mentioned that I had let my cut flowers rest in a jar of water for a few hours before arranging and photographing them, Cathy, at Rambling in the Garden, replied that she rarely has enough time to condition her own blooms before putting a vase together. It made me think that […]
Just getting this post in under the wire with less than an hour to spare before sundown, joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase of flowers cut from my garden. The flowers themselves were cut 12 hours ago, and I did take a few photos then, but wanted to also give them […]
I’m happy to report that, for once, the weather forecast was accurate – we received about 3/4 of an inch on rain Saturday night into Sunday morning – almost 20 mm. Enough to give the garden a much needed drink and to almost refill my three large rain barrels. perfect timing, as well, as temperatures […]
We finally had a bit of rain early yesterday morning, the first rainfall of July for us, only about 10 mm but enough to perk up the garden a bit and replenish, a bit, the rain barrels. It was enough to encourage a Zinnia to open – the first in my Zinnia patch, the early […]