Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
It’s day seven – the final day – of Cathy’s annual A Week of Flowers on-line celebration of blossoms that made us happy this past growing season. I’m going to end the week with the bees and butterflies that brought me joy in my garden. These shots were all downloaded from my phone (almost all […]
I’d post a picture of what my roses look like right now, but it wouldn’t be pretty! Instead, I’ll go back to October 31. We’d had a number of frosty nights already but a few hardy roses held on, including this grandiflora – Crimson Bouquet. As you can see by the blotchy leaves, it’s not […]
I couldn’t imagine a list of favourite flowers from the past season not including Colchicum autumnale – sometimes called autumn crocus, but not to be confused with Crocus sativus. The later is also called autumn crocus since it also blooms in the fall, albeit later than the Colchicum. It has a much smaller bulb, the […]
At the beginning of August, before the summer drought sunk its ragged, unclipped talons deep into the soil, flowers on the taller-than-me stalks of Silphium perfoliatum started to open. The cup plant gets its common name from the way pairs of leaves join at the base, enveloping the stalk to create a cup. The daisy-like […]
I’m joining Cathy this week as she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from this past spring and summer – all with the goal of making a cold and perhaps grey and snowy December a bit more bearable. Gardening these days is much more than growing pretty flowers; it’s about […]
I’m joining Cathy this week as she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from the past spring and summer – all with the goal of making a cold and perhaps grey and snowy December a bit more bearable. I’ve been looking for flower photos that I haven’t yet shared, and […]
Cathy lives on a mountainside in Germany, and to help chase away the cold and perhaps snowy and grey December doldrums she hosts seven days of colour to remind us of the beauty from the past spring and summer. I looked for a flower photo that I hadn’t yet shared and came across the lovely […]
When I reviewed my records of first frost and first snowfalls, I wasn’t surprised to notice 2025 sits right in the middle of early and late dates….so there’s no reason for me to be dismayed by how my garden looks today, no matter how bleak. I harvested the last carrots on Saturday, the last Brussels […]
My Zinnias were toasted by the first hard frost Saturday night. At first light Sunday morning they resembled frosted flakes.
Well. In my Saturday post I postulated that it would be a momentous weekend, and (sadly, it turns out) I was right. The Toronto Blue Jays lost the baseball World Series crown in a true heart breaker of a game, and we had the first hard frost of the year. My glowing Zinnia patch is […]
County Gardening 