Category: Violets
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Gardening Diary – July 30, 2022
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Last week, we purchased a Mandevilla Vine [Mandevilla sp.] from Lowe’s that was in the distressed plant section. We placed it along with its pot in the Daffodils bed. We will need to take it in the late Fall. We weeded the front bulb bed. Sharon weeded the area in…
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Gardening Diary – October 19, 2021
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Sharon in front bulb bed. Picture taken October 19, 2021. Blaauw’s Pink Azalea [Rhododendron sp.] Picture taken October 23, 2021. Sharon and I planted 3 Blauuw’s Pink Azalea plants in the front bulb bed. We added water and Miracle-Gro Shake‘n Feed All Purpose Plant Food to the hole where we…
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Gardening Diary – October 15, 2021
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Cranberry Cotoneasters removed. [Cotoneaster apiculatis] Picture taken on October 15, 2021. Sharon and I removed the 2 Cranberry Cotoneasters in the front yard. In addition, we weeded the beds that contained these plants. The weeds were primarily Bermuda grass and Violets.
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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 – March 26, 2021
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Hydrangea bed. Picture taken on 26 March 2021. Weeded most of the Hydrangea bed and the part of the right walkway adjacent to the bed. Most of the weeds were Dead Nettle, Violets and Onions. Aphrodite Sweetshrub [Calycanthus L. ‘Aphrodite’] Picture taken on 26 March 2021. Planted an Aphrodite Sweetshrub [Calycanthus L.…
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Gardening Diary – March 23, 2021
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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…
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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…