White Echinacea and colourful Zinneas are taking centre stage in my August gardens
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Tag: Echinacea
Silent Sunday – Painted Lady
Painted Lady butterfly amongst the Echinacea
Six on Saturday – 13/07/2019 – Hollyhocks etc
Hollyhocks are the star of this week’s garden!
Birth of a New Echinacea
This new Echinacea is a cross with E. paradoxa
Where are the Bees and Butterflies?
Where are the #bees and #butterflies this year?
Six on Saturday – Wilt Proof
What’s blooming mid summer in southeastern Ontario – in appreciation of plants that don’t mind a bit of drought.
Six on Saturday – receding floodwaters
After last weekend’s ice pellets and freezing rain came a full day of heavy rain – which stayed on top of the ice and caused quite a bit of flooding in the yard. Flooding isn’t unusual in the spring here, we have pretty bad overall drainage on the property despite a contractor’s promise several […]
Variations on a Theme – dipped in frost
It was a brilliant weekend on The County – just above freezing during the day, just below freezing at night, a bit of rain late Saturday, a lot of sun on Sunday. Pretty perfect. Sunday morning there was a very light frost covering everything; I went out just before the sun hit and melted it […]
Perennials Do It Too!
This is the time of year everyone on the eastern part of North America – and anywhere else there’s woods and forests with deciduous trees – goes gaga over fall foliage. Folks take road trips to the country or the hills wherever they may be to take it all in, and Instagram, blogs and Facebook […]
