Gardening Diary - March 27, 2025

  Finished pruning the False Asters [Kalimeris pinnatifida 'Hortensis'] and continued weeding the Daffodils bed.

Dave came over and unpacked part of the shipment from Home Depot yesterday:

Picture taken March 26, 2025.

Dave put the timbers and the stepping stones on the other side of the gate.

He took some of the bags of mulch over to his yard (I promised to get him 20 bags.)

Then Dave distributed most of the remaining bags of mulch over to most beds.

Picture taken March 27, 2025.

He and I then started spreading a little of the mulch.

Gardening Diary – March 26, 2025

 Continued to prune and weed in the Daffodils bed.

Before pruning:

Hydrangea

[Hydrangea sp.]

Pictures taken March 26, 2025.

After pruning:

 

Hydrangea

[Hydrangea sp.]

Pictures taken March 26, 2025.

Pruned both Hydrangea plants. This is the first time that I have seen some leaves high on the stems which were removed.

Before pruning:

 

False Aster

 [Kalimeris pinnatifida 'Hortensis'] 

Picture taken on March 26, 2025.

After pruning:

False Aster

 [Kalimeris pinnatifida 'Hortensis'] 

Picture taken on March 26, 2025.

Also cut back the False Asters. Recall that, on ???, Dave cut down back the False Asters to a height about 6 inches.

Removed, from the bed, the remains of the last Coleus planted last year.

Most of the weeds removed were Onions and Violets.

Home Depot delivered 100 bags of black wood shredded bagged mulch, 2 4"x4"x8' ground contact pressure-treated southern yellow pine timber and 3 16"x16"x1.75" Pewter Square Concrete Step Stones.

Pictures taken on March 26, 2025.

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Additional photographs (7) taken today:

Purple Deadnettle 

[Lamium purpureum]

Picture taken on March 26, 2025.

Daffodils (Front bed)

[Narcissus sp.]

Picture taken on March 26, 2025.

Daffodils (Daffodils bed)

[Narcissus sp.]

Picture taken on March 26, 2025.

Gardening Diary – March 14, 2025

 This morning, SURPRISE!

Red Twig Dogwood 

[Cornus sericea]

Picture taken on March 14, 2025.

Dave pruned the Red Twig Dogwood [Cornus sericea] and

Flowering Cherry Bed

Picture taken on March 14, 2025.

cut back the remains of the Lantana [Lantana sp.] plant in the Flowering Cherry Bed.

Decided to work on the Daffodil Bed today:

Daffodil Bed

Picture taken on March 14, 2025.

starting to weed. Most of the weeds were Onions and other weeds. However, in contrast to the beds weeded earlier this week, there were very few Violets. 

Removed all but one of the remains of the Coleus. 

Pruned to the ground, the 3 Raydon's Favorite Asters [Aster oblongifolius 'Raydon's Favorite'].

Gardening Diary – March 13, 2025

Moved on to the cleaning / weeding of the second of the circular beds on the right side of the front yard.

Circular bed on right side of the front yard.

Picture taken on March 12, 2025.

Similar to the past 2 days, removed the weeds, again, mostly Onions and Violets and the remnants of the Celosia plants. Left the remnant of Decadence® 'Vanilla Cream' False Indigo which was significantly larger than the similar plant in the first bed. 

Also pruned the 3 Undaunted Muhly Grasses [Muhlenbergia reverchonii UNDAUNTED]. These plants seemed to be also larger than the similar plants in the first bed. 

The clean and weeded circular bed on right side of the front yard.

Picture taken on March 12, 2025.

Gardening Diary – March 12, 2025

 Finished the cleaning / weeding of one of the circular beds on the right side of the front yard. The following picture 

 

Circular bed on right side of the front yard.

Picture taken on March 12, 2025.

shows the "clean" bed and the remnant of Decadence® 'Vanilla Cream' False Indigo. 

It is hoped that this plant can be revived!

Undaunted Muhly Grass

[Muhlenbergia reverchonii UNDAUNTED]

Picture taken on March 12, 2025.

This picture shows one of the three Muhly Grasses, two of which were pruned back today.

Again, it is hoped that these plants can be revived!

Gardening Diary – March 11, 2025

 With a nice spell of weather predicted for this week, I ventured into the front yard and decided to weed one of the circular beds on the right side. 

Two years ago, we had planted 3 Celosia plants in each of these circular beds. As the Celosias are annual plants, we decided last year to replace them with the perennials Muhly Grasses [Muhlenbergia reverchonil UNDAUNTED] (see April 25, 2024). Surprisingly, the Celosias had seeded themselves in both beds. Sharon and I were so pleased by the 2024 Celosias that we did not remove them.

Unfortunately, we did not care for the garden while I was disabled with my fall.

The Celosias had crowded out the Muhly Grasses.

One of the circular beds on the right side of the front yard.

Picture taken on March 12, 2025.

Started weeding the circular bed shown in the picture above. In addition to removing the weeds, primarily Onions and Violets, I also started to remove the remnants of the Celosia. Pruned back one of the Muhly Grasses. Cleared about 1/3 of the bed since I had to take Sharon to an appointment.