Category: Purple Smoke Bush

  • Gardening Diary – August 15, 2023

    Gardening Diary – August 15, 2023

    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…

  • Gardening Diary – August 12, 2022

    Gardening Diary – 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’]. As seen in the photo above, it appears that my spraying Ortho GroundClear Year Long Vegetation Killer around the edges of the beds in…

  • Gardening Diary – May 24, 2022

    Gardening Diary – May 24, 2022

    Smoke Bush bed. Picture taken on May 24, 2022. Pruned the Purple Smoke Bush [Cotinus Coggygria] and one of the Red Leaf Barberry Hedges [Berberis thunbergii  ‘Atropurpurea’] in order that the view from a car on the driveway is not obstructed. Sharon and I weeded the Smoke Bush bed. Sprayed Ortho…

  • Gardening Diary – April 20, 2022

    Gardening Diary – April 20, 2022

    Front of Sunny Knock Out Rose bed. Pictures taken on April 20 2022. Back of Sunny Knock Out Rose bed. Pictures taken on April 20 2022. Pink Drift Roses [Rosa ‘Meijocos’] Pictures taken on April 20, 2022. Red Leaf Barberry Hedges, Purple Smoke Bush, and Pink Drift Roses [Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’],…

  • Gardening Diary – April 13, 2022

    Gardening Diary – April 13, 2022

    Purple Smoke Bush [Cotinus Coggygria]. Pictures taken on April 13, 2022. Weeded the Purple Smoke Bush bed.

  • Gardening Diary – March 22, 2022

    Gardening Diary – March 22, 2022

    Moved the refuse from the pruning yesterday to Dave’s gulley. Sunny Knock Out Roses [Rosa ‘Radsunny’] Picture taken on March 22. 2022. Sharon pruned one of the Sunny Knock Out Roses along the driveway. Unfortunately, as she tried to weed around this plant, she fell out of her chair. She sustained…

  • Gardening Diary – July 24, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 24, 2021

    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…

  • Gardening Diary – June 10, 2021

    Gardening Diary – June 10, 2021

    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…