Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
The garden has been SO BUSY for the past two weeks. All the local honey bees, wasps, hornets, other bees and butterflies seem to have found the goldenrod and sedum that have been in full bloom. Asters have just started so there will be pollen and nectar for a few more weeks. (Still not enough […]
We’ve had some rain; not enough to satisfy thirsty trees and shrubs but enough to wake grass and dandelions from summer dormancy. The damage was done though, and let me say it just once: leaves turned red or brown and fell in August; some flower stalks are half the height they’d normally be; sow thistle […]
No rain, week something…I’m about to sacrifice the tomatoes (which weren’t producing much anyway) and save the last of the rain barrel water for the new red maple whips, containers, and a few selected veggies and flowers. I didn’t plan it this way, but when I looked through the photos I took yesterday morning the […]
Another week with no rain…Clematis is being crispified but a few things are looking almost normal… Whether a result of bulbs buried deeply, a huge fibrous root ball or even a bit of hand watering, there’s a few things in the garden looking pretty good this weekend – good enough certainly to add them to […]
Week whatever of our summer drought. Areas north, south, east and west of us have been getting the odd thundershower but my County, or at least my part of it, jutting down into Lake Ontario as it does, has had just a few drops, literally, of rain the the past many weeks. Think crispy, dust […]
It seems insensitive to complain about our weather (very hot, very humid, very dry) considering so many other places in the world have experienced worse this summer, but let me just say my rain barrels are almost empty and I fear for my tomatoes. I was wandering about the garden early yesterday morning and noticed, […]
June was really busy and although I was out taking pictures many mornings they mostly never made it to the processing stage. So there’s a bit of catch up today although I will start with something brand new to my garden – this eye-catching butterfly bush a friend gifted me last Sunday. I know these […]
A hot humid heat wave is about to edge north across the Great Lakes bringing a risk of afternoon thunderstorms every day for the next week or so. Yesterday though, and the day before and the day before, it was quite fabulous outdoors. Some sun, warm but not hot, and the air whenever I stepped […]
Peonies are opening this week, bringing blocks of red, pink and white to the garden, but there are many interesting purple flowers open as well, including a pair of Geraniums that were supposed to be pink. I’ll start with this Geranium macrorrhizum ‘Ingwersens Variety.’ At least, that’s what the label on the pot said when […]
It’s been a hazy few days in much of North America; wind has pushed smoke from huge wildfires in the northern Canadian prairie provinces south and east across the continent. It’s a minor inconvenience for most, but of course a terrible tragedy for those who have lost everything. These giant fires seem to be happening […]