Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
A mini heatwave over the past few days has encouraged perennials to open at an alarming rate. As I was dead-heading the last of the tulips yesterday, it seemed as if all around me I could almost see petals from Iris, Ox Eye Daisies, oriental poppies and much more unfurl, open and expand. Summer, it […]
It’s been a pretty glorious week here – half a day of rain on Wednesday but the rest of the week has been nothing but sunshine and unicorns. I was able to get my tomatoes and dahlias planted yesterday and will be sinking gladiola bulbs later today, as well as sowing Zinnia and beet seeds. […]
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 […]
A bit of frost this week didn’t hurt anything.
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!!
I’m joining Cathy today with a tiny vase (likely originally a condiment or oil jar of some sort) filled with tiny blooms produced by small sprung bulbs: Muscari (both the blue two-toned M. latifolium and a diminutive white variety), Narcissus ‘Quail’ and a summer snowflake – Leucojum aestivum. The vase was filled and photographed last […]
It’s rainy today, but how glorious was yesterday??
Last week it was D & H (for Hyacinths) and this week it’s a handful of early tulips that I cut to mix with daffodils in today’s vase of cut flowers. Over in England, Cathy hosts this weekly gardener’s delight called In a Vase on Monday. I love how some flowers close tight at night, […]
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