Category: Butterfly Bush bed

  • Gardening Diary – August 16, 2022

    Gardening Diary – August 16, 2022

    Weed-eated the walkway next to the Butterfly Bush bed and the Lenten Rose bed. Did some pruning of the Indigo Bush [Amorpha fruticosa] to facilitate weeding of the Hydrangea bed and the walkway along the left walkway along the latter bed. Weeded the Hydrangea bed concentrating on getting rid of…

  • Gardening Diary – August 15, 2022

    Gardening Diary – August 15, 2022

    Finished weeding the Butterfly Bush bed while Sharon started to weed the right side of the Hydrangea bed and the walkway on the right side of this bed. Additional photos (2) taken today:

  • Gardening Diary – August 9, 2022

    Gardening Diary – August 9, 2022

    Sprayed 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. Sharon and I went to the back to continue to clean up the Butterfly Bush bed. Unfortunately, a tree had…

  • Gardening Diary – August 3, 2022

    Gardening Diary – August 3, 2022

    Using the reciprocating saw, cut 5 limbs off of the Hardy Bensonhurst Purple Fig Tree [Ficus carica]. Butterfly Bush bed and path along this bed. Picture taken on August 9, 2022. Sharon and I then continued weeding in the Butterfly Bush bed and we pruned many branches off of the…

  • Gardening Diary – August 1, 2022

    Gardening Diary – August 1, 2022

    Sharon pruned the Pink Flowering Almond [Prunus glandulosa]. Sharon and I started to weed the Butterfly Bush bed. Most of the “weeds” are Chocolate Mint [Mentha × piperita ‘Chocolate Mint’] and Bermuda grass. Started to prune the Pink Delight Butterfly Bush [Buddleja davidii ‘Pink Delight’]. Additional photograph taken today:

  • Gardening Diary – July 20, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 20, 2021

    Butterfly Bush bed Picture taken on July 21, 2021. Finished weeding and laying down a double layer of cardboard on the Butterfly Bush bed. Finished covering this bed with 11 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch. Cucumber and Tomato Picture taken July 21, 2021 by Sharon. Sharon…

  • Gardening Diary – July 15, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 15, 2021

    Tier bed. Picture taken on July 15, 2021. Several years ago, we had some heavy rain which pushed down some branches of one of the Red Altheas [Hibiscus syriacus] onto the Janed Gold Arborvitae [Thuja occidentalis ‘Janed Gold’ Plant Patent #21,967] in the tier bed. Typically, when a heavy rain will push…

  • Gardening Diary – July 14, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 14, 2021

    Butterfly Bush bed. Picture taken on July 14, 2021. Continued to cover the Butterfly Bush bed with a double layer of cardboard. Started covering this bed with pine bark mini nuggets mulch. Additional photographs (8) taken today: Purple Haze Pineapple Lily [Eucomis ‘Purple Haze’] Pictures taken on July 14, 2021.…

  • Gardening Diary – July 13, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 13, 2021

    Peppers Picture taken on July 13, 2021 by Sharon. Sharon planted 2 Peppers, ? and ?, in one of the straw bale beds and Eversweet Strawberries Picture taken on July 13, 2021 by Sharon. Eversweet Strawberries in the clay-colored greenstalk tower. These plants were purchased from Home Depot last week.…

  • Gardening Diary – July 12, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 12, 2021

    Butterfly Bush bed. Picture taken July 13, 2021. Weed-eated the Butterfly Bush bed and started to lay down a double layer of cardboard.