Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I was thrilled that my butterfly milkweed – Asclepias tuberosa – popped up again this spring in my kitchen garden. It’s not supposed to favour the compacted rocky clay soil I planted it in, preferring sandy well drained soil to sink its tap root into. It’s also supposed to be very drought tolerant though, so […]
I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a Hyacinth jar filled with early summer blooms. I didn’t give much thought to colour – but did want to showcase Allium cernuum – nodding onion – with its burst of falling mauve/purple flowers, which is the first of the smaller summer alliums, and the orange/yellow […]
Garden photos taken in the summer to ward away the winter blues.
I braved hordes of hungry mosquitoes earlier this morning, in between swimming and gymnastics events being broadcast from Paris, to snap a few photos in my yarden, joining Jim at Garden Ruminations in this weekly worldwide roundup of What’s Happening in your Garden. We’ve had just a few drops of rain this week – the […]
I’m joining Jim and his global Sixers today with photos taken on my old cell phone. The garden is very colourful at this time of year, with daylilies and alliums and roses and coneflowers all blooming. Earwigs are feasting on the Zinnias and beans like never before, but tomatoes are growing higher and faster than […]
Summer colour at its peak in the garden this week!
Cool blues, purples and pinks for this week’s vase of cut flowers.
There are wonderful colours in the mid summer garden.
Loads of colour in the garden on the first full day of summer in Prince Edward County.