County Gardening

More than 24 hours and 100 mm of rain later, the air is clear and skies are finally showing a bit of blue. Until the next round, it seems. The pattern most summers, this one included, is for rain clouds to travel north or south of us, leaving our soils parched and our trees and much of my garden very sad looking. That trend is officially broken and leaves on trees are very pe...

This morning’s light drizzle has ended leaving an overcast sky – perfect for picture taking. I’m joining Cathy at Rambling in the Garden with a vase of daisy-like flowers. Echinacea purpurea is mostly past its prime but almost perfect blooms are still to be found, and...

Back in May I splurged and purchased a trio of fairly large foxgloves. I’ve had them over the years, even started them from seed a few times, but they are the truest form of ‘short lived perennial’ that I’ve encountered. Even with leaving flower stalks and seedheads to stay, and drop seeds below the parent plant, they just don’t seem to want to come back in my garden. But I l...

All weekend long, my weather app was screaming ‘Rain on Monday! Thunderstorms on Monday!’ Its tune had changed when I woke up this morning: ‘Cloudy with sunny periods. Sunny with cloudy periods.’ I should’ve known better. No excuse not to spend the day in the garden, watering, deadheading, planting autumn radishes, maybe a bit of mowing… First though, I’ve snipped a few thing...