New Purchase

Name: Ninebark Summer Wine
Variety: Physocarpus opulifolious
Type: Shrub
Height: 5-6'
Light: Full sun
Color:  White to light pink 
Bloom Time: Summer
Location:  East edge of property north of arbor


Purchased two at Meijers.

New Purchases at Sells

Name: Forsythia
Variety: Forsythia Espinosa
Type: Shrub
Height: 6-8'
Light: Full sun
Color: Yellow
Bloom Time: Early April
Location:  NE corner of lot
Adding an additional one to the three that are already there.

Name: Rose, Sugar Moon
Variety: Rosa, Hybrid Tea, Sugar Moon
Type: Shrub
Height: 3-4'
Light: Full sun
Color: White
Fragrance:  Citrus
Bloom Time: Summer
Location:  West of water fall 

New Purchase

Name: Beard-Tongue Riding Hood Purple
Variety: Penstemon Riding Hood Purple
Type: Perennial
Height:24"
Light: Full sun
Flower Color: Purple
Bloom Time: Summer
Location:  Back yard perennial garden

Purchased at Meijers

Lawn Mowing

Wayne mowed the lawn last night and weed wacked.  The weeding is coming along.  

Two rose bushes are still growing a little.   They have tiny shoots at the base.  They still need to have dead branches cut off.

Two rose bushes are entirely dead.   They need to be dug up and removed.

Vines are gone--the two honey suckle and the trumpet.  They all need to be removed.

One of the bridal spirea needs to be dug up.  It's not dead but looks terrible.

The summer snow needs to be pruned.

Wayne removed the lavender and the rosemary.   They were both dead or dying.

Fertilizer Stakes and Report

We fertilized all the shrubs and trees on Saturday and yesterday.   Glad to have that done.   It looks like we might only have one spirea that we have lost in the front yard.   Everything else is growing.

In the back we lost the JFC rose, but not a great loss, and the Living Easy, which was an expensive purchase and a gorgeous rose.  I am truly sad about that.

We lost the trumpet vine, which is a good thing, which we were in the process of killing.  However, both honey suckle vines are dead as well. 

The lavender is gone, but it was old and not a big loss.   I have one star gazer lily come up and some designer iris purchased several years ago.   All the shade plants are growing but there was some losses on the waterfall.     We need to purchase new things there.

More Flowers Blooming

We actually have the white phlox in the front yard that are really looking great.  Perhaps a few more things will bloom after all. 

Name: Moss Phlox
Variety: Phlox subulata white delight
Type: Perennial
Height: Ground cover
Light: Full sun
Flower Color: white
Location:  Pathway under the lights
Bloom Time: Late April

Cold Spring

The only real flowers that we have had this entire spring has been the pear trees out front.   Nothing else has looked really great.   The temperatures are warmer now and hopefully we will get more flowers but for right now this is it.

Name: Cleveland Pear
Variety: Pyrus Calleryana "Cleveland Select"
Type: Deciduous tree
Height:30-50'
Light: Full sun
Flower Color: White
Bloom Time: Early April
Location:  Front of house north and south side

Dead Tree

The 15' gorgeous blue spruce in the back yard died over the winter.  The nusery said that there is a disease that strikes them when the are taller than 12'.  We purchased a new white spruce and will have the dead one removed.

Spring is Here--Sort Of

Wayne fertilized the lawn the last week of April.   It is still really cold and while we do have flowers out they are all really pretty pathetic.   Our forsythia is just barely blooming and the daffodils were ok.  Crocuses in the back, but the tulips are still rater late.  There are flowers on the pear trees in front but not as massive as previous years.   At least the grass is nice and green. 

Temperatures have been in the 50s for week.  We should have a little warmer this week, but only one day.