Category: Purple Smoke Bush bed
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Gardening Diary – August 16, 2023
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Finished pruning the Purple Smoke Bush bed; only pruned 2 of the Red Leaf Barberry Hedges [Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’]. Sharon weeded the Daffodil bed and then joined me in weeding of the front bulb bed. Sharon concentrated primarily on the Morning Glory vines and I concentrated on the tall weeds shown…
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Gardening Diary – August 15, 2023
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Started pruning the Purple Smoke Bush [Cotinus Coggygria] and two of the Red Leaf Barberry Hedges [Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’] in order that the view from a car on the driveway is not obstructed. Sharon pruned the Sunny Knock Out Roses in the front. She also pruned the Seventh Heaven Shasta Daisies…
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Gardening Diary – August 12, 2022
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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’]. As seen in the photo above, it appears that my spraying Ortho GroundClear Year Long Vegetation Killer around the edges of the beds in…
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Gardening Diary – July 18, 2022
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Yesterday, fixed the problem with the Drip Irrigation Multi-stream Dripper Stake in the Purple Smoke Bush bed that put out too much water. Watered the front beds. Found another irrigation problem; this time, the problem is in the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed. Sharon and I took a load of…
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Gardening Diary – June 24, 2022
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Sunny Knock Out Roses bed Pictures taken on June 24, 2022. While Sharon was weeding the front bulb bed, I weeded both sides of the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed. Purple Smoke Bush bed Picture taken on June 24, 2022. Sprayed the weeds in the Purple Smoke Bush bed with…
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Gardening Diary – April 13, 2022
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Purple Smoke Bush [Cotinus Coggygria]. Pictures taken on April 13, 2022. Weeded the Purple Smoke Bush bed.
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Gardening Diary – July 24, 2021
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Purple Smokebush bed Picture taken on July 24, 2021. Weeded parts of the Purple Smokebush bed focusing on Violets. E.g., weeds along the street were not removed but were sprayed with Ortho Groundclear Super. This herbicide was also sprayed on weeds in our driveway and on some Bermuda grass that…
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Gardening Diary – June 10, 2021
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Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince, Scarlet Storm Flowering Quince, Orange Storm Double Take Quince, Pink Storm Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Toyo Nishiki’], [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Scarlet Storm’], [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Orange Storm’], [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Pink Storm’] Picture taken on June 10, 2021. Pruned the Toyo Nishiki Flowering Quince and other Quinces in the front porch bed and…
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Gardening Diary – March 24, 2021
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Oregon Sugar Pod II Peas [Pisum sativum var. saccharatum] Picture taken on 24 March 2021. Watered straw bale beds #7-8. Carol Mackie Daphne [Daphne x burkwoodii ‘Carol Mackie’] Picture taken on 24 March 2021. Put 4 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nuggets on the Flowering Cherry bed which we planted the…
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Gardening Diary – March 20, 2021
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Took 6 bags of weeds to the Knox County dump. Saw some Violets in the 2 Pink Muhly Grass beds and the Serviceberry bed; removed these. Walkway through Sunny Knockout Rose bed. Picture taken on March 20, 2021. Continued weeding of the Sunny Knockout Rose bed near the Purple Smoke…