Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
It’s Victoria Day in most of Canada, Patriot’s Day in Quebec, a holiday for many, and what would have been my late mother’s birthday. What better way to celebrate than joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden and enjoying a jug of cut spring flowers. Here are several tulips, two types of daffodil (‘Hawera’ with […]
Although a cold front moved in overnight and this morning it’s quite cool, wet and blustery, yesterday was glorious. I was able to do some mowing (although there’s still a lot of very soggy chunks of the yard I can’t get the mower into), some planting (although the tomatoes are still waiting to be transplanted…maybe […]
After a slow start to the spring it seems we’re almost caught up to normal, gardening-wise. I looked at photos from this time last year and just a few flowering shrubs and small trees aren’t quite at the same stage. Dandelions, on the other hand, seem much more abundant than normal, but perhaps I say […]
Spring officially begins on March 20 this year, making today the last Thursday of the winter. In a way, it’s hard to believe how quickly the weeks have gone by, but I don’t know anyone who’s sad to see the snow finally melting away, not to mention experiencing the end of bitterly cold wind against […]
Winter’s grip has broken, it seems. We’ve had days (and even a few nights) with temperatures above freezing this past week; the snowpack is melting, sugar maples are being tapped to make syrup, precipitation is a mix of rain and snow…normal March activities. But while last year snowdrops started to bloom in February, I likely […]
A bit of frost this week didn’t hurt anything.
A chilly end to April!
Both flowers and veggies are Six things in the garden this week
Tall Bearded Iris are perfect tall cut flowers for today’s vase.
There’s an abundance of flowering perennials and shrubs to choose from for this week’s Six on Saturday!