Category: Gardening
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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 8, 2023
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From Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee: Here are the public information statements from the surveys that were conducted today. Preliminary Damage Assessment of Lovell Crossing Apartments in Knoxville Tennessee.https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Preliminary Damage Assessment Sevier and Jefferson Countyhttps://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Preliminary Damage Assessment Loudon Countyhttps://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=MRX… Also, here is an interactive map from…
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Gardening Diary – August 7, 2023
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From Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee: From Facebook: Knoxville Utilities Board” Crews are working quickly and safely to restore power to more than 56,000 customers across our service territory after storms caused severe and widespread damage. Report outages and check for estimated restoration times through our mobile app or…
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Gardening Diary – July 22, 2023
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Sharon and I continued to prune and weed the bush bed. We finished pruning the Ninebark and weeding around this bush. Sharon did some pruning of the Kaleidoscope Abelia and the Autumn Jazz Arrowwood Viburnum and some weeding around these bushes. While Sharon was doing this, I started to clear…
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Gardening Diary – July 17, 2023
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Sharon and I started to clean up of the area around the bush bed. Sharon started at the front gate and started weeding, focusing on removing the Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana]. She also started pruning the Chokeberry [Aronia melanocarpa]. We continued to do this for a couple of days culminating in…
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Gardening Diary – July 13, 2023
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Recall Mea Culpa. Not sure what we did today; probably we weeded the Front bulb bed. Noah cut down the tall weeds, including the Pokeweeds [Phytolacca americana] and Goldenrod [Solidago sp.], on the other side of the Original bed. He put the weeds in the Original bed.
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Gardening Diary – May 12, 2023
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The following 7 Coleus were planted in the Daffodil bed: In the Flowering Cherry bed, we planted 6 Pink Begonias were planted in the Flowering Cherry bed as seen in the following picture: Other picture (1) taken today: Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa! This was the expression that…
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Gardening Diary – May 5, 2023
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Sharon did a quick weeding of the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed. Sprayed ORTHO GroundClear on the weeds at the driveway’s edge of the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed and on some of the weeds in the Purple Smoke Bush bed. Sharon distributed Preen Weed Preventer on the the Sunny…