We continued to clean up in the yard. Sharon worked along the right fence and I behind the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Texas Scarlet’].
This morning there was a lot of rain. This afternoon, we noticed that many of the Daffodils [Narcissus sp.] were in full bloom.
Sharon was cleaning the back bed along the walkway behind the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince [Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Texas Scarlet’], etc. while I was cutting down the volunteer trees and bushes that were growing in the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince and the Azaleas [Rhododendron sp.] at the right side of the front of the back bed. As we did not remove these plants last year, they were quite tall (5′ – 6′). We suspect that some of these were Privet, Cardinal Red Twig Dogwood [Cornus sericea ‘Cardinal’] and a couple which we were unable to identify.
As can be seen in the latter picture, the Texas Scarlet Flowering Quince was starting to bud.
While walking in the front yard, we noticed that some of the Daffodils and Grape Hyacinths were in bloom.
Sharon and I continued to clean the backyard. We obtained 5 large bags of refuse which we took to the Knox County dump.
On return, we started to pick up fallen limbs.
We saw our volunteer Lenten Rose [Helleborus sp.] in one of the walkways in the back bed.
Sharon and I took 3 bags full of garden trash, that was collected last Friday, over to the Knox County dump. In addition, we took one of the chippers and one of the reciprocating saws both of which were no longer working.
Sharon noticed that the Lenten Roses were blooming. In order to take some pictures of some of the blooms, I pruned some of the dead leaves off of some of the plants.
Sharon and I cleaned up part of the back yard, producing 3 large bags of garbage which we will take to the dump next week.
Then we took pictures of each other in our second venture into the garden this year.
With warm weather for the few days of the week, we went out to work in the garden. I took the wagon, that was filled up back in last November, over to Dave’s gulley and emptied the limbs from our pruning.
Then Sharon and I partially cleaned up the back patio. Took 2 large bags, wood from some shelves, and a water ??? over to the Knox county dump.
Took a picture of the Sango Kaku Japanese Green Maple [Acer palmatum ‘Sango kaku’], which we planted in 2022, and posted to our blog on Facebook as an example of a plant that provides color during the winter months.
Daffodils are starting to break the ground in both the Daffodil bed and the front bulb bed:
Noticed that the “deep freeze” that we experienced in December had taken a toll on 3 evergreen plants:
For the second day in a row, continued with weeding and spreading black mulch on the front bulb bed and it started to rain! Additional phot...
