Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
You know I have cats, right? And cats like to do cat things, like hop on tables. Nibble plants. Play with things that make crinkly noises. Which is why the strawflowers I dried last fall, the ones that escaped my cat Valjean’s midnight marauding, are high up on top of the dining room buffet-thingy, instead of on the living […]
More Dahlias this week, I’m afraid. Sorry! These pom pom flowers are just so cute that I’ve been pulling together a windowsill vase every five or six days, in addition to distributing the occasional bouquet to friends and neighbours. My milk glass cup with a frog at the bottom is perfect for this task, holding […]
Xerochrysum bracteatum, aka strawflowers, aren’t shrubs, of course, but the one I have growing in my kitchen garden right now sure thinks it is! I’ve started them from seed the past few years but this spring they didn’t make the cut, given my reduced indoor growing space due to new, very curious cats in the […]
The garden is still snow covered, but here’s a vase of dried flowers for the first day of spring.
I’m sometimes asked what my favourite flower is. I bet you’ve been asked the same question, but unless you have a sentimental or emotional attachment to a specific bloom, I wouldn’t be surprised if your answer is similar to mine: ‘It depends on what’s blooming right now.’ The Lens-Artists photo challenge this week is to […]
Strawflowers add a lot of colour to the garden right until hard frost.
County Gardening 