Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
Lilacs and Solomon Seal (Polygonatum) are both just starting to bloom in my garden and I couldn’t resist snipping one stem of each for today’s vase. They’re joined by a few sprigs of Nepeta racemosa which, I admit, are totally lost in this arrangement. I had to cut them anyway – the clump has grown […]
It’s seasonably cool today but a week of really warm temperatures and yesterday’s rain has given the yard and gardens a lushness (euphemism for rampant growth, overgrown, grass needs cutting again…) that is sometimes hard to take in. It’s like living in a temperate tropicalness. Or a kind of tropical temperateness. Right now the Iris […]
Solomon Seal is probably my favourite shade tolerant perennial. It has graceful arching stems with beautiful, dainty hanging flowers in spring that bees love; the leaves stay dark green all summer; it’s extremely drought tolerant and, in the autumn, everything turns first deep yellow then a beautiful orange/tan before leaves and sometimes whole stems collapse […]