Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
We’re heading into a cold spell, perhaps the coldest days and nights we’ve had in several years, the weather experts are saying. A perfect time to look back at this quartet (plus one) of tulips that were in bloom last May 3, and to anticipate them blooming again in just four months. Each Saturday Thursday […]
I took some photos last weekend of a vase filled with ‘Queen of the Night’ tulips and Narcissus ‘Thalia’ and Poeticus; unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to download or share them but it’s just as well – I really like how the tulips, indoors in their vase for several days, gently bent down to […]
My first attempt at a vase of tulips looked a bit flat. The tulips were gorgeous, yes, but something felt missing, so I went back into the garden and snipped a few long pieces of garden chives (Allium schoenoprasum), a single leaf from a Lupine plus several tall Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum). The graceful, delicate, […]
After all that rain, we finally have a gorgeous spring weekend! Perfect for gardening!!
What could be more decadent than tulips in January?
Raindrops on Tulips – always entrancing!
What started as a warmer and drier than average spring has turned into a normally wet and cool spring. That makes all growing things happy, which makes me happy. It also lengthens the spring bulb season, and that makes me very happy! Bulbs in bloom feature heavily in my Six this week – to see […]
The last of the daffs and tulips to bloom are in this week’s vase of freshly cut flowers.