Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I was at a local garden club meeting last Monday evening where Karen Legros was the guest speaker, talking about and demonstrating Ikebana. She’s studied it for more than 20 years and is an executive of the Toronto chapter of the Ohara (no apostrophe) School of Ikebana, which was founded in Japan in 1895. From […]
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what’s growing in our gardens; at the end of July, there’s plenty of blooms to choose from and my back porch cafe table is jammed with small jars and vases jostling for space amongst the ever growing resident Begonia and […]
‘b’ is for Verbena bonariensis. Dozens of small seedlings have now appeared, joining the very few seeds that germinated at the usual time earlier this year. Verbena ’til frost! ‘c’ is for Daucas carota – Queen Anne’s Lace or wild carrot – waving gracefully in garden beds, meadows and even unmowed sections of the lawn. […]
Today’s vase of cut flowers started by Cathy, at Rambling in the Garden, including a beautiful Clematis flower in a vase she featured several weeks ago; the idea continued to grow with a comment from a blogging colleague in Texas who talked about a native Texan Clematis – Texensis of course – and how she […]
My small vase of flowers this week started as a ‘garden edit’ – I needed to thin out and push back a line of self-seeded Calendula bordering the kitchen garden so that a line of bush beans could get some sun and also so that, when the time comes, I’ll be able to actually, you […]
I woke up yesterday morning eager to find some red and white flowers in the garden to create a Canada Day theme for today’s vase of cut flowers, joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. It was foggy (I was tempted to title this post ‘Dew Point’) and not very warm (not very warm today, […]
Challenging photo-taking conditions this morning – blustery and cloudy with rain drops here and there. I tried to shoot today’s vase indoors with not much luck so out we went again. Thanks to Cathy at Rambling in the Garden who hosts the weekly garden meme In A Vase On Monday, featuring flowers from our gardens. […]
Last week I had a pretty glorious vase of red, pink and white peonies featuring P. Duchesse de Nemours from this largish clump: Then, overnight Thursday, it rained. A lot. And I woke up Friday morning to find this: Oh well…I quickly cut a bunch of the bent stems, trimmed them and plopped them into […]
It was a cool and slightly damp weekend here, perfect for gardening, really, and of course I was outside much of the time, mowing and trying to keep the garden under some sort of control. That meant pulling up or cutting back some of the Ox Eye daisies that spread so easily here and, in […]
I know. It’s June. There are SO many flowers in the garden right now I could easily fill a dozen or three vases with fresh cut blooms. But still, what to do with the spent flowers, the stems I’d normally cut back and leave to decompose or cart out to the compost pile, when those […]
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