Category: Holly

  • Gardening Diary – July 4, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 4, 2022

    Right side of home. Picture taken on July 4, 2022. Removed the vine that we think is a Trumpet Vine that grew on the side of the right side of the house. Weeded the Fern bed. Sharon removed a Maple tree that growing next to the house and another bush…

  • Gardening Diary – July 1, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 1, 2022

    Right front fence bed. Picture taken on July 1, 2022. Weeded the right front fence bed. Sharon was working on removing the unknown bush intertwined with the Holly bush. Additional photos (2) taken today: Daylily [Hemerocallis sp.] Picture taken on July 1, 2022. Coneflowers [Echinacea sp.] Picture taken on July…

  • Gardening Diary – May 17, 2022

    Gardening Diary – May 17, 2022

    Holly bush Picture taken on May 18, 2022. Sharon finished pruning the extra unknown bush in the Holly bush and the plant contained in the right front fence. Front Bulb Bed Picture taken on May 18, 2022. Finished weeding the front bulb bed.

  • Gardening Diary – May 16, 2022

    Gardening Diary – May 16, 2022

    Front bulb bed Picture taken on May 16, 2022. Sharon continued to prune out the extra bush in the Holly bush. Continued to weed the front bulb bed.

  • Gardening Diary – June 21, 2021

    Gardening Diary – June 21, 2021

    Front bulb bed. Picture taken June 21, 2021. Hopefully finished pruning, for a while, the growth of the bush that was intertwined with the Holly bush [Ilex sp.] and continued to weed the front bulb bed. Additional photographs (4) taken today: Pink Delight Butterfly Bush [Buddleja davidii ‘Pink Delight’] Picture…

  • Gardening Diary – June 19, 2021

    Gardening Diary – June 19, 2021

    Right side of the front bulb bed. Picture taken on June 19, 2021. Moved the trash which was cut down yesterday to the gulley on Dave’s property. Continued to prune the growth of the bush that was intertwined with the Holly bush [Ilex sp.] and that had grown on the…

  • Gardening Diary – June 18, 2021

    Gardening Diary – June 18, 2021

    Moved the brush (Dock Weed [Rumex obtusifolia​], Green-headed Coneflowers [Rudbeckia laciniata], etc.) that was cut down on Wednesday to the gulley on Dave’s property. Sharon and I took 8 bags of garden trash to the Knox County dump. Sunflowers Picture taken June 18, 2021. Weeded some of the front bulb…

  • Gardening Diary – March 23, 2021

    Gardening Diary – March 23, 2021

    Went to Home Depot and bought 10 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini-nugget mulch. Hosta [Hosta sp.] Picture taken 23 March 2023. Using a spade, was able to lift the Hosta plant that was in the Flowering Cherry bed. Weeded this bed; the bed had a significant number of Violets…

  • Gardening Diary – March 5, 2021

    Gardening Diary – March 5, 2021

    Front bulb bed. Picture taken on March 5, 2021. Completed weeding and mulching the front bulb bed on the left side of the old Holly bush. Used all of the bags of mulch which I had originally allotted to cover the Daffodil bed. Center of the Purple Smoke Bush bed.…

  • Gardening Diary – March 4, 2021

    Gardening Diary – March 4, 2021

    Pink Muhly Grass [Muhlenbergia capillaris] Picture taken on March 4, 2021. Completed adding pine bark mini-nuggets mulch to the 2 Pink Muhly beds and Serviceberry [Amelanchier sp.] Picture taken on March 4, 2021. around the Serviceberry [Amelanchier sp.]. Front bulb bed. Picture taken on March 4, 2021. Started to put…