Latest Blog Posts

The following items provide links to the blog posts. The items are ordered by date (in reverse order) starting with the most recent blog post.

  • Gardening Diary – July 27, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 27, 2022

    Right fence bed. Picture taken on July 27, 2022. Sharon continued to weed the right fence bed and pruned many of the neighbor’s bushes that hung over and through the fence. Hardy Bensonhurst Purple Fig Tree [Ficus carica] Picture taken on July 27, 2022. The walkway along the right side…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 23, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 23, 2022

    Red Twig Dogwood and the 2 Mugo Pines. [Cornus sericea], [Pinus mugo] Picture taken on July 23, 2022. We used one of the rolls of EasyFlex Scallop Woodgrain No-Dig Edging 20-ft Black Plastic Landscape Edging that we purchased yesterday to complete the edging around each of the beds, Red Twig Dogwood…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 22, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 22, 2022

    Red Twig Dogwood and 2 Mugo Pines [Cornus sericea], [Pinus mugo] Picture taken on July 23, 2022. Sharon and I installed 3 rolls of EasyFlex Scallop Woodgrain No-Dig Edging 20-ft Black Plastic Landscape Edging Roll; 1 roll around each of the Red Twig Dogwood bed and the 2 Mugo Pine beds.…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 18, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 18, 2022

    Yesterday, fixed the problem with the Drip Irrigation Multi-stream Dripper Stake in the Purple Smoke Bush bed that put out too much water. Watered the front beds. Found another irrigation problem; this time, the problem is in the Sunny Knock Out Roses bed. Sharon and I took a load of…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 15, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 15, 2022

    Front porch bed. Picture taken on July 15, 2022. Sharon pruned the Scarlet Storm Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Scarlet Storm’], the Pink Storm Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Pink Storm’] and the Orange Storm Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Orange Storm’] in the front porch bed. Picked up the branches that were pruned off the…

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  • Gardening Diary – July 14, 2022

    Gardening Diary – July 14, 2022

    Right front beds. Picture taken on July 14, 2022. Reinstalled the 2 fence panels next to the right front fence. Sprayed the weeds in the right fence beds with Ortho GroundClear Weed & Grass Killer. Weed-eated the area around the right front beds. Sharon pruned the Sunny Knock Out Roses [Rosa ‘Radsunny’],…

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