Gardening Diary – August 12, 2022

Mandevilla Vine
[Mandevilla sp.]
Picture taken on August 12, 2022.

Added a sprinkler to the pot containing the Mandevilla Vine [Mandevilla sp.] and fixed the water outlet on one of the Sunny Knock Out Roses [Rosa ‘Radsunny’].

Red Twig Dogwood and Mugo Pines
[Cornus sericea] and [Pinus mugo]
Picture taken on August 12, 2022.

As seen in the photo above, it appears that my spraying Ortho GroundClear Year Long Vegetation Killer around the edges of the beds in the front yard and on the part of the Purple Smoke Bush bed along the road didn’t cover all of the weeds. Therefore, I sprayed some more herbicide on the weeds that didn’t appear to be covered by the first spraying.

Sharon pruning the Purple Smoke Bush.
[Cotinus Coggygria]
Picture taken on August 12, 2022.

Sharon pruned the Purple Smoke Bush [Cotinus Coggygria] so that we can back our cars more easily.

I pruned the Red Leaf Barberry Hedge [Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’] that was closest to the street.

Sharon and I collected all the cut off foliage and dumped them in Dave’s gulley.


Additional photos (5) taken today:

Coleus

[Plectranthus scutellarioides].

Pictures taken on August 12, 2022.

Dahlias
[Dahlia sp.]
Pictures taken on August 12, 2022.