Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I’m happy to report that, for once, the weather forecast was accurate – we received about 3/4 of an inch on rain Saturday night into Sunday morning – almost 20 mm. Enough to give the garden a much needed drink and to almost refill my three large rain barrels. perfect timing, as well, as temperatures […]
June was really busy and although I was out taking pictures many mornings they mostly never made it to the processing stage. So there’s a bit of catch up today although I will start with something brand new to my garden – this eye-catching butterfly bush a friend gifted me last Sunday. I know these […]
Garden photos taken in the summer to ward away the winter blues.
I wandered about the parched yarden late this afternoon, cutting a few stems for a jar I could enter in tonight’s Ameliasburgh Garden Club meeting floral competition – the theme was ‘Rainbow Arrangement.’ As much rain as we’ve had this summer (record setting!), it’s been dry and hot the past two weeks and much of […]
Remnants from another hurricane – Debbie, she was called – made it very wet in Eastern Canada yesterday. Happily, I took a few photos of the garden on Thursday so that I might join Jim at Garden Ruminations for Six on Saturday. I’ll start off with a few splashes of red – nice for hummingbirds […]
A hot and humid long weekend here. The garden is lush, even overgrown in more than a few places, so I’ll be out puttering around a lot, battling mosquitos, trying to make the paths passable, relocating the odd hornworm, drinking lots of water and just enjoying the fullness of it all. First off, even before […]
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 […]
A quick Six for a busy and beautiful weekend – to see six things in gardens all over the world take a look at our host’s site – Garden Ruminations. Mid July to mid August is prime coneflower season, including in my island bed which is chock full of mostly self seeded purple and white […]
‘Remnants’ of Hurricane Beryl passed through the area on Thursday, leaving behind four inches of rain but, unlike other areas on the continent, no death or damage. (More than a million people near Houston, Texas, have been without electricity since Monday!) It’s rare for us, so far inland and so far north, to experience these […]
Summertime, and the flowers are blooming…
County Gardening 