Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens. For me, it’s Tall Flowers week, since both lupins and Iris are now fully engaged in making life beautifully colourful. I added a few other tall stems – Nepeta once again, since it’s so […]
Winter’s grip has broken, it seems. We’ve had days (and even a few nights) with temperatures above freezing this past week; the snowpack is melting, sugar maples are being tapped to make syrup, precipitation is a mix of rain and snow…normal March activities. But while last year snowdrops started to bloom in February, I likely […]
A mini heatwave over the past few days has encouraged perennials to open at an alarming rate. As I was dead-heading the last of the tulips yesterday, it seemed as if all around me I could almost see petals from Iris, Ox Eye Daisies, oriental poppies and much more unfurl, open and expand. Summer, it […]
For 49 weeks a year I think tall bearded Iris are a waste of garden space. Dandelions love to grow in impossibly tight spaces between their rhizomes. Leaves get tatty and mottled by the end of July, and are unremarkable the rest of the growing season. You’re supposed to divide the rhizomes every few years. […]
Each Monday Cathy at Rambling In The Garden encourages us to share a vase highlighting what is growing in our gardens. It’s the last Monday in May, which means many spectacular late spring blooming perennials are starting to shine – Iris and Lupine amongst them. Also blooming are buttercups – Ranunculus sp. Many people think […]
Tall Bearded Iris are perfect tall cut flowers for today’s vase.
There’s an abundance of flowering perennials and shrubs to choose from for this week’s Six on Saturday!
Tall bearded Iris make a statement in today’s vase.
The last weekend in spring arrives with rainy skies but lots of colour in the garden!