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 […]
We’re on the outer edges of a ‘heat dome’ that’s centred over Ohio, Mississippi and Tennessee. With our humidex temperatures approaching 40 degrees celsius (more than 100 fahrenheit), I can’t imagine what it’s like further south. A side effect of this dome appears to be random, rambling thunderstorms that have brought flooding to many areas […]
Just as the first heat wave of the summer sets in, these ‘cool weather’ Ranunculus are looking very pretty right now. A neighbour started and gave me three plants in April. They were just a few small leaves, then a few more small leaves, then all of a sudden these thick stalks emerged out of […]
Every Monday Cathy at Rambling in the Garden invites gardeners to share photos of a container of any sort showcasing things from the garden. Our cool June temperatures have made it possible for these lovely, huge double (and triple? Quadruple?) red peonies to keep their queenly appearance, so I’m using the same jug as last […]
With thunderstorms and heavy rain in the forecast for most of yesterday, I was out early in the morning, before the skies darkened, to snip and photograph these queens so that they can take their proper place in Cathy’s Monday collection of cut flowers. As you can see, they haven’t opened all the way…I’m hoping […]
What a week! Canada’s men’s team ‘drew’ 1-1 against Boznia and Herzegovina yesterday (is that the right way to say they tied?), our first ever world cup point for a men’s team, and the game was in Toronto so of course there was pandemonium in the streets, pandemonium I say (LOL – the hyperbole is […]
I covered myself head to toe a short while ago to venture out amidst the mosquitos and snip a dozen Siberian Iris stems to fit into the frog holes at the top of this green glass vase. I’m still scratching a few welts on the top of my hand, the shutter release hand while I […]