Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Have you ever seen one of those social media posts, or TV entertainment show segments with the caption ‘Who Wore it Better?’ Usually it’s a snarky thing, with two women (usually actresses) wearing the same or similar dress, with commentators weighing in on on who looks better in that particular garment. Having an abundance of […]
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 […]
About a month ago, as the leaves on my yellow tree peony (planted in 2019, on the label it’s called Poaeonia suffruticosa yellow) were expanding and flower buds getting ready to burst open, I noticed a few leaves that looked quite different. Following the stem down it appeared to come from the base of the […]
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 […]
Peony time in Prince Edward County.
It’s been a strange week, weather-wise, in much of Canada, with large forest fires blazing from B.C. to Nova Scotia to the Northwest Territories; more than 4.3 million hectares – that’s 10.5 million acres – have burned this year, and wind patterns pushed the smoke from fires in Quebec and northern Ontario south. Smoke and […]
Poppies and garlic scapes are a few signs of summer in the garden.
Loads of colour in the garden this week!
Iris and Peonies in today’s vase of fresh cut flowers.
An early bee getting the pollen.
County Gardening 