Category: Gardening
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Gardening Diary – April 12, 2023
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Took the wagon over to Dave’s gulley and emptied the wagon. Sharon pruned the 3 Sunny Knock Out Roses [Rosa ‘Radsunny’] in the front yard. She also weeded the bed containing them. Cut back the 6 Pink Muhly Grass plants [Muhlenbergia capillaris] in the front yard. Weeded the 2 beds that…
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Gardening Diary – April 10, 2023
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Sharon and I severely pruned the Kaleidoscope Butterfly Bush [Buddleia davidii ‘Bicolor’]. This bush was the only one of 3 Butterfly Bushes in the garden which did not show new growth. Then Sharon and I weeded the Butterfly Bush bed. Additional pictures (5) taken today:
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Gardening Diary – April 4, 2023
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Sharon pruned the Groovy Grape Butterfly Bush and the Pink Delight Butterfly Bush. Since there has been very little new growth, Sharon pruned these bushes almost to the ground. In preparation to breaking down raised beds #7 and #8, weed-eated the beds and the areas around the beds.
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Gardening Diary – March 27 – 28, 2023
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Continued with the sorting problem on the porch as described in Gardening Diary – March 21 – 25, 2023. The second round of freezing temperatures at night nipped some of the plants as they were recovering from the “deep freeze” in December: Additional pictures (13) that were taken on March 28:…
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Gardening Diary – March 21 – 25, 2023
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Noah, while cleaning the porch, collected many items and put them in a large pile in the middle of the floor. He wanted me to sort the items, put those that I wanted to keep on the shelves, and put those, that I did not want to keep, in the…
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Gardening Diary – March 18, 2023
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While taking the dogs, Lily and Paisley, outside noticed the following Tulip: Additional picture taken today:
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Gardening Diary – March 11, 2023
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Went outside to take a picture, of where our original garden shed was located, for yesterday’s Gardening Diary. Noticed that the 2 Pink Flowering Almonds [Prunus glandulosa] were starting to bloom: One side of the second bulb bed was full of Surprise Lilies [Lycoris squamigera]. Will be looking forward to…
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Gardening Diary – March 10, 2023
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We had Farmer & Sons come and pick up the garden trash and take it to a dump. They could not take the hazardous trash. Sharon is sitting in front of their truck and trailer. While they were loading the trailer, Sharon was digging up some Onions from the Daffodils…