Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
We’ll have cool nights, but sunny and warm days for this long weekend – very welcome after a few weeks of sporadic torrential downpours and tropical humidity. I’m going to take a look at six things in gardens around the world by dropping into Jim’s site – Garden Ruminations – and join in with three […]
Back in May I splurged and purchased a trio of fairly large foxgloves. I’ve had them over the years, even started them from seed a few times, but they are the truest form of ‘short lived perennial’ that I’ve encountered. Even with leaving flower stalks and seedheads to stay, and drop seeds below the parent […]
I could almost have titled this post ‘Tall Flowers’ – all the blooms here are making statuesque statements in various locations in the garden this week. I’m joining Jim at Garden Ruminations with these six things – pay his site a visit to see sixes from other parts of the world! First up are these […]
And we are ALREADY done with seven twelfths of the year!! And what do I have to show for it?? A few neglected parts of the garden have received some TLC, with one or two more projects in the works. On paper, anyway. The Brussels sprouts have never looked better, thanks to cabbage moths being […]
We had a few very hazy, smokey days earlier this week, with more to come, we’re told – I’m NOT complaining about it! – my heart breaks seeing on TV images of wildfires blazing through northern Ontario, 700 – 1,000 kms from here, and people fleeing as their homes and livelihoods are destroyed. Not to […]
I was thrilled that my butterfly milkweed – Asclepias tuberosa – popped up again this spring in my kitchen garden. It’s not supposed to favour the compacted rocky clay soil I planted it in, preferring sandy well drained soil to sink its tap root into. It’s also supposed to be very drought tolerant though, so […]
We’re on the outer edges of a ‘heat dome’ that’s centred over Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee. With our humidex temperatures approaching 40 degrees celsius (more than 100 fahrenheit), I can’t imagine what it’s like further south. A side effect of this dome appears to be random, rambling thunderstorms that have brought flooding to many areas […]
What a week! Canada’s men’s team ‘drew’ 1-1 against Boznia and Herzegovina yesterday (is that the right way to say they tied?), our first ever world cup point for a men’s team, and the game was in Toronto so of course there was pandemonium in the streets, pandemonium I say (LOL – the hyperbole is […]
It’s been raining lightly most of the night and radar shows it continuing for a few more hours. This is welcome, the first rain in a few weeks, but a bit inconvenient as I’d planned three days of non-stop gardening to prepare for my first ever ‘open garden’ on Tuesday morning. A busload of keen […]
Everything in the garden has loved the sunny days this past week, even though it’s been a tad chilly. Today’s the day to plant out tomatoes and peppers and hope for the best so just a quick springtime Six to join Jim at Garden Ruminations. I lost several trees and shrubs, or parts of shrubs, […]