Gardening in Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
It seems 2020 was either the hottest or the second hottest year on record. It depends on your source. Either way, we’ve yet to see negative double digits where I live in southern Ontario, even at night. We had a nice snowfall at the start of the month, but what was left on the ground […]
Fading roses and a Nutcracker adorn a small table top for this week’s vase of cut flowers.
Mid December and the garden is still green, with splashes of unlikely colour.
Silent Sunday – Viburnum carlesii ‘Compactum’
We’re in the midst of a November heat wave – sunny and mid teen temperatures. Unheard of really. Unfortunately, it was preceded with our first hard frost, last weekend, which was a death knell for most annuals and vegetables. Luckily I had picked my cucumber (it was delicious) and all remaining tomatoes (green or otherwise) […]
Deteriorating mushrooms in the lawn – a healthy sign, it seems.
A garden blogging friend in England, after noting how much time I spend in the garden when weather permits, asked me yesterday what I did in the winter, when the ground here is frozen and covered in snow. I had to think about that for a while. The majority of my ‘free time’ on spring, […]
Time to bring indoors a few plants for the winter.
