Country Gardener

Since we moved here 11 years ago, our summers have been dominated by drought. Indeed, the worst drought in 50 years plagued gardeners and f...

We've had a lot of rain this week. More flooding down at the creek today, as we got our second inch in as many days, and the ground was ...

We are in the "Very High" region between London and Toronto Click on map to see it bigger Here's the Ontario precipitation ma...

Pinch me, I can't believe we got so much rain this week. Today's severe thunderstorm brought almost 1 and a half inches of rain. It ...

Rainbow from two weeks ago I was beginning to get cranky about the lack of rain - no rain for two weeks. On top of that we're in the ...

Peonies and allium seedheads before the storm Why is it that we get the worst thunderstorms when the peonies are in full bloom? This is jus...

It rained last night - a thunderstorm that got my dog a-panting and hiding under the table. The total: 6/10ths of an inch. With the rain we ...

Waiting for the new transformer box That's what it took to get our place humming with power again. Last evening, we had dinner with my ...

Here's what we got today: one and a quarter inches of rain. Put that together with the half inch we had early in the week, and it totals...

Things are looking up: the past week brought us 9/10ths of an inch of rain over two days. It's amazing how quickly the lawn responds and...

As September arrives and the gardening season begins to wind down, there's beauty in the fading away, such as these prairie coneflowers ...

View from patio on our back hill - note brown lawn in background As many others were contending with record rainfall and flooding, we staye...

Click on the radar map to view bigger 4:30 a.m.: Wake to thunder and lightning and then finally some rain falling around 5 a.m. I take a cu...

Today I actually thought I was losing it. My impression of the last few days was that I hadn't watered a lot, and so I didn't bother...

Click on picture to view bigger size I don't live by gardening alone, and so I follow quite a few blogs that have nothing to do with g...

I start the morning off by taking some pictures of the front garden, which is full of grasses and Russian sage. This picture, I take from th...

Yesterday's rainfall amounted to 4/10ths of an inch in total, but it stayed cloudy, cooler and dampish all day, which was a blessed reli...

We got almost half an inch of rain today (4/10ths of an inch). Earlier on, the forecast predicted lots more rain tonight coming with thunder...

We were off on holiday last week, so it was nice not to worry about rain, or lack thereof. It did rain here twice on Thursday for a total of...

Today's rain was just 2/10ths of an inch. But maybe things will start looking up: at least there are some more showers in the forecast f...