Gardening Diary – December 30, 2022

Ackerman Hybrid Camellia

[Camillia Ackerman Hybrid]

Picture taken on December 30, 2022.

As the “deep freeze” that we had has moved on, we removed the cover that we had placed on the Ackerman Hybrid Camelia and the ???. There appears to be no damage to the Camelia. We will have to wait until Spring to see if there is any damage to ???.

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From Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee, December 27, 2022:

Have you been thinking to yourself "I wonder how many consecutive hours of freezing temperatures we had with this arctic outbreak?" Well folks, wonder no more! The arctic front that ushered in this outbreak of cold weather moved through during the early morning hours on December 23rd. Between that time and this afternoon, several locations clocked in at over 100 consecutive hours at/below the 32°F mark. Wise, Virginia was the winner at 107hrs!

While not a record breaking cold spell (the longest streaks on record were on the order of 6-10 days depending on the site), it was impressive nonetheless. Here's a look at several sites from across out forecast area.

Gardening Diary – December 27, 2022

 Surprise Snow!

Backyard

Pictures taken on December 27, 2022.

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From: Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee (December 28, 2022)

Gardening Diary – December 22, 2022

 Facebook: US National Weather Service Morristown Tennessee forecasts snow and extremely low wind chills for tomorrow.

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Ackerman Hybrid Camellia

[Camillia Ackerman Hybrid]

Picture taken on December 22, 2022.

One of the plants we chose to protect is the Ackerman Hybrid Camellia. We decided to use the green cloth that we originally used to protect our raised beds (see, for example, ???).

Ackerman Hybrid Camellia

[Camillia Ackerman Hybrid]

Picture taken on December 22, 2022.

In order that the cloth would cover the whole plant, we decided to prune the Ackerman Hybrid Camellia to make the plant shorter.

To help support the cover, we installed 4 steel stakes around the Ackerman Hybrid Camellia.

Ackerman Hybrid Camellia

[Camillia Ackerman Hybrid]

Picture taken on December 22, 2022.

We placed the cover over the plant and the steel stakes. We secured the cover by using ???… .

Flora : Poinsettia

 

Poinsettia

[Euphorbia pulcherrima]

Pictures taken on December 20, 2022.

We purchased last week the Poinsettia at Aldi’s.

Gardening Diary – December 19, 2022

Daffodils bed

Picture taken on December 19, 2022.

Added some Christmas decorations to the Daffodils bed; they were purchased last week from Hobby Lobby.

Gardening Diary – December 2, 2022

Picture taken on December 2, 2022.

We repeated the procedures from November 29 and took 2 more loads of cardboard to the Knox County dump. Since it rained since November 29, we had covered the cardboard with the green cloth shown in the picture above.