Last week, we had several nights when the temperature dipped into the middle 20’s. The following plants suffered damage from the freeze.
Semmes Beauty Oakleaf Hydrangea
[Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Semmes Beauty’]
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Wintergreen Boxwoods
[Buxus microphylla var. koreana ‘Wintergreen’]
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Icicle Short Top Radishes
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Ground Orchid
[Bletilla striata ‘Alba’]
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Continued pruning in the backyard.
Butterfly Bush
[Buddleja davidii]
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
First, pruned the volunteer Butterfly Bush [Buddleja davidii] in front of the left side of the back bed.
Wild Yellow Indigo
[Baptisia sphaerocarpa]
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Second, remove last year’s growth of the Wild Yellow Indigo [Baptisia sphaerocarpa].
Part of bed along the right fence.
Picture taken 6 April 2021.
Third, started pruning the plants from Ferguson’s yard that were hanging over the right fence.
And, fourth, reinstalled the manifold and the backflow for irrigation in the garden. Watered the straw bale beds #7-#8 and the Aphrodite Sweetshrub [Calycanthus L. ‘Aphrodite’] which was recently planted in the Hydrangea bed.