Gardening Diary – October 27, 2021

 

Original bed

Picture taken on October 27, 2021.

Placed 10 posts in the original bed to provide support for the Autumn Fire Sedum [Sedum spectabile ‘Autumn Fire’ (Hylotelephium spectabile)]. Need to add string connecting the 10 posts.

Heavily pruned the Coral Beauty Cotoneaster [Cotoneaster dammeri ‘Coral Beauty’] which extended over part of the porch and overlapped parts of the Sunny Anniversary Glossy Abelia [Abelia x grandiflora].

Started to weed parts of the bed covered by the Sunny Anniversary Glossy Abelia.

Put the pruned branches into the wagon.

Gardening Diary – October 23, 2021

 

Sharon working on the Daffodils bed.

Picture taken on October 23, 2021.

Little Princess Spirea

[Spirea japonica]

Picture taken on October 23, 2021.

Sharon and I finished weeding in an area of the Daffodil bed where we planted a Little Princess Spirea [Spirea japonica]. We added water and Miracle-Gro Shake ‘n Feed All Purpose Plant Food to the hole where we did the planting. We covered the area with 1 2 ft³ bag of pine bark mini nuggets. Sharon sprinkled Extended Control Preen on the mulch and I watered the area.

The plant was obtained from Home Depot.

Gardening Diary – October 19, 2021

 

Sharon in front bulb bed.

Picture taken October 19, 2021.

Blaauw’s Pink Azalea

[Rhododendron sp.]

Picture taken October 23, 2021.

Sharon and I planted 3 Blauuw’s Pink Azalea plants in the front bulb bed. We added water and Miracle-Gro Shake‘n Feed All Purpose Plant Food to the hole where we did the planting. These plants were obtained on sale from Home Depot.

Then, we started weeding part of the Daffodils bed. Most of the weeds were Bermuda Grass and Violets.

Gardening Diary – October 18, 2021

 

Mugo Pine

[Pinus mugo]

Picture taken on October 18, 2021.

Sharon and I planted 2 Mugo Pines in the beds in the front yard that contained the Cranberry Cotoneasters [Cotoneaster apiculatis]. We added water and Miracle-Gro Shake ‘n Feed All Purpose Plant Food to the holes where we did the planting. We covered each bed with 2 2 ft³ bags of pine bark mini nuggets. Sharon sprinkled Extended Control Preen on the mulch and I watered the areas.

Sharon dead-heading the Chrysanthemums in the Halloween display.

Picture taken on October 18, 2021.

Watered the plants in the Halloween display and several other plants which we had purchased recently. Sharon dead-headed the Chrysanthemums in the Halloween display.

Gardening Diary – October 15, 2021

Cranberry Cotoneasters removed.

[Cotoneaster apiculatis]

Picture taken on October 15, 2021.

Sharon and I removed the 2 Cranberry Cotoneasters in the front yard. In addition, we weeded the beds that contained these plants. The weeds were primarily Bermuda grass and Violets.

Gardening Diary – October 13, 2021

 

Bulb bed

Picture taken on October 14, 2021.

Sharon finished weeding the Bulb bed. Finished mulching this bed with pine bark mini-nuggets mulch.

Bulb and Rose beds.

Picture taken on October 14, 2021.

Then started mulching the Rose bed also with pine bark mini-nuggets mulch.

A total of 10 2 ft³ bags of mulch was used today and yesterday. The mulch was purchased from Home Depot.

Noah continued to prune the Deutzia Magician [Deutzia x hybrida ‘MAGICIEN’]. 

Gardening Diary – October 5, 2021

 Took 6 bags of weeds to the dump.

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According to the Facebook page for the National Weather Service Morristown, expecting rain for today and the next 3 days:

Several rounds of showers and a few thunderstorms are forecast over the next couple of days with the highest rainfall totals expected in portions of southeast Tennessee and southwestern North Carolina. There is potential for localized flooding, especially in these areas tomorrow into tomorrow night.