Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
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, […]
It’s a chilly, rainy weekend here – great for reading a book or visiting garden centres (I’m just back from visiting three in the area – no crowds at all which is very sad for them but nice for me) but not great for toodling about taking photos of pretty flowers. Happily, I was out […]
I think we’re done with frosty nights now, and it’s safe to start hardening off the tomato, peppers and marigolds I started indoors last month. They won’t be planted out for a few more weeks but I know they’ll be much happier out on the back porch then stuck indoors under grow lights – at […]
Holy macaroni it’s been cold this month! The coldest May since the 1960’s, in fact. Not that we’ve had snow or even frost (unusual in itself) but that daytime highs have struggled to reach double digits and nighttime lows have consistently been between plus four and eight – not conducive to planting tomatoes or most […]
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 […]
I imagine if I go through my blog posts from years gone by I’ll come across the phrase ‘…never looked better…’ quite often, but truly, this year my spring garden has never looked better! Flower stalks seem taller, colours seem more vibrant, critter damage is much less obvious…perhaps my eyes are getting older and my […]
Our perfect spring weather has produced extra tall flowers this May, and I’ve taken advantage of it by dusting off this tall Blue Mountain Pottery vase. It’s filled with tall bearded Iris, tall hybrid lupins, very tall Purple Sensation and Mt. Everest Alliums, a few Egyptian Walking Onion scapes already curling and fruzzy bronze fennel […]
It’s been a perfect week in the garden.
Two thirds through spring, daffs and tulips are all but gone and, for a week or two, flowering shrubs take centre stage. Let’s start with a prologue though, an amuse-bouche for the eyes as I join Jim at Garden Ruminations in showcasing six things in my garden today. The first is Camassia quamash in front […]