Category: Gardening
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Gardening Diary – July 3, 2021
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Red Twig Dogwood [Cornus sericea] Picture taken July 3, 2021. Continued to remove tall weeds and prune lightly some bushes in the Sedum / Lily bed and the bush bed. Removed Oak [Quercus sp.] and Maple [Acer sp.] seedlings from the area around the Red Twig Dogwood and removed a…
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Gardening Diary – July 1, 2021
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Canna Lily [Canna sp.] Picture taken July 1, 2021. Continued to remove tall weeds (Dock Weeds [Rumex obtusifolia], Green-headed Coneflowers [Rudbeckia laciniata], Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana], Goldenrod [Solidago sp.], Maple seedlings [Acer sp.], etc) from the back bed. Even though not all such tall weeds were completely removed, started to remove tall weeds…
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Gardening Diary – June 29, 2021
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Green-headed Coneflowers [Rudbeckia laciniata] Picture taken on June 29, 2021. Continued with the installation of plastic-covered steel plant stakes on the right side of the Green-headed Coneflowers bed. Some of the Green-headed Coneflowers that were outside of the bed were removed. As noticed in the picture above, some of the…
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Gardening Diary – June 28, 2021
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Fixed one of the outputs of the irrigation system at one of the Sunny Knock Out Roses [Rosa ‘Radsunny’] in the front yard. Green-headed Coneflowers, Double Knock Out Rose [Rudbeckia laciniata], [Rosa ‘Radtko’] Picture taken on June 29, 2021. Removed Green-headed Coneflowers which have grown in the walkway between the…
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Gardening Diary – June 25, 2021
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Coneflowers, Lily Trees [Echinacea sp.], [Lilium sp.] Picture taken on June 25, 2021 Started to check the irrigation system in the front yard. Added one spinner in the front bulb bed. Under the Coppertina® Ninebark [Physocarpus opulifolious ‘Mindia’], cut out a section of the hose that had a large split in…
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Gardening Diary – June 23, 2021
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Front bulb bed Picture taken on June 23, 2021. Finished weeding the front bulb bed. Blue Cascade Evergreen Distylium [Distylium ‘PIIDIST-II’] Picture taken on June 23, 2021. Pruned the Blue Cascade Evergreen Distylium to prevent it from interfering with the growth of the Japanese Maple [Acer palmatum var. dissectum ‘Tamukeyama’] and the Pineapple…
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Gardening Diary – June 21, 2021
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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…
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Gardening Diary – June 19, 2021
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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…
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Gardening Diary – June 18, 2021
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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…
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Gardening Diary – June 16, 2021
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Walkway between the back porch and the Rose bed. Picture taken on June 16, 2021. Walkway between Rose bed and second bulb bed. Picture taken on June 16, 2021. Weed-eated the walkway between the back porch and the Rose bed, the walkway between the Rose bed and the second bulb…