Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
I’m joining Cathy and other gardeners at Rambling in the Garden this week, sort of, in presenting cut flowers (or branches or grasses or seedheads) from their garden. ‘Sort of’ because although I intended to snip a few stems from this purchased pot of mini daffodils (likely ‘Tête-à-Tête;’ it’s a tad annoying that growers can’t […]
Winter is now just a memory of deep snow and frigid nights – it’s truly amazing how fast we’ve flipped the calendar to April and all of a sudden spring bulbs are poking through no longer frozen soil and yes, there are even a few flowers in bloom. There’s enough happening in my garden today […]
As you can see the snow is mostly melted away here, spring bulbs are popping up and although there’s nothing but clouds and rain in the forecast this week, yesterday and Saturday were sunny and a few degrees above freezing. I was able to spend a lot of hours outside pruning shrubs and trees, including […]
Spring finally, officially at least, arrives on Friday. Snow has mostly melted away here, although there’s more in the forecast in the coming days and our last frost date is still nearly two months away. But we have snowdrops aplenty and, thanks to a few branches cut from a very large ‘Ottawa Early’ Forsythia and […]
It was all about our local coyote pack in 2025, not a single deer or rabbit lingered long enough within range of the compost pile cam to trigger the shutter. Instead, the luxuriously pelted wild dogs ventured forth regularly and fearlessly, at all hours of the night and day, helping themselves, it seems, to veggies […]
As the sun rose yesterday it was cold, 21 degrees below zero, but the air was still for the first time in many days. The powdery snow that had fallen all day Thursday lay softly over the ground, and it was easy to imagine myself standing on a movie set somewhere much further south. The […]
Snow squalls off Lake Ontario made for treacherous driving New Year’s Eve and left another three or four inches (7 – 10 cms) of fluffy powder on the ground for a very chilly but sunny New Year’s Day – shoveling wasn’t too difficult! I’m joining Jim at Garden Ruminations today for my first Six on […]