PEC – County Gardening

February 27, 2018February 26, 2018Chris Mousseau

behind the lens – a Face in the Crowd

Although Sunday started out gloomy and wet, a brisk south-westerly soon blew away the clouds and allowed the sun to reveal a glorious late winter landscape. Snow and ice melted away leaving dirty drifts at the side of roads or brown squishy fields and yards that led to much dog paw washing all afternoon. Around […]

January 11, 2018January 11, 2018Chris Mousseau

Throwback Thursday… January 18, 2014

The winter of 2013-14 was pretty bad — cold and a never ending series of ice storms. Blowing snow that closed local roads, trees down, shivering livestock. These swans seemed to take it all in stride.

November 12, 2017Chris Mousseau

Little Promises

It’s official – winter is nigh Snowfall has come, dark clouds are high Leaves are all gone leaving branches so bare Hoping these buds bring flowers to the air Next spring. *** These photos were taken about a week ago before the first frost and fist dusting of snow; today, almost all […]

October 20, 2017Chris Mousseau

View from the Window

I wouldn’t complain if we got a bit of rain, but October has been magical this year. Sunny warm days, cool nights and glowing foliage with the sun rise. This is what I’ve been looking at early mornings as I sip my coffee in the dining room. Glow Windows

October 18, 2017October 18, 2017Chris Mousseau

Glow after First Frost

In the wee hours of yesterday morning a wave of frost rolled over the field and gardens closest to the house. I had, perhaps instinctively, cut and brought in for drying all the sweet and Thai basil the day before so no loss there. Hardest hit were the Canna Lilies, cantaloupe, zinnias and, sadly, my […]

October 3, 2017Chris Mousseau

In Praise of a Not Very Spectacular Native Shrub

Snowberry. Doesn’t the name conjures up images of large, juicy, creamy berries produced after pollinators have spent the summer happily buzzing amongst fluttery, multi-petaled white flowers? Then you add the botanical name, Symphoricarpos albus, and reality sets in. Latin can really be a buzzkill sometimes. For me, the Snowberry is a memory pant — a […]

September 27, 2017September 29, 2017Chris Mousseau

seeds…seeds…seeds

September 20, 2017September 19, 2017Chris Mousseau

…if a fish could see a sunflower…

sunflower

September 11, 2017September 8, 2017Chris Mousseau

A Tale of Two Tuteurs

Everyone in my family LOVES Morning Glories (Ipomoea purpurea or, by some, Convolvulus purpureus). What’s not to love in waking up to a trellis or fence covered in sky blue flowers? I’ve never grown them before because I don’t have a suitable fence and I’ve seen that the vines can get 15 or 20 feet […]

September 7, 2017September 5, 2017Chris Mousseau

Resiliency…

I sat in the garden on Labour Day Monday, resolved (but not entirely succeeding) to do no labour that wasn’t absolutely necessary, pondering the meaning of ‘resiliency’ in my own personal landscape. It’s a word, along with ‘sustainability’ that’s been cropping cropping up a lot these past few years in landscape design circles. I heard […]

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