Weekly Report

Front:  The spirea are about spent.  The daisies are in bloom as are the day lilies and the campanulas.

South:  The lilies are in bloom and look wonderful. 

Back:  The Arizona sun are still blooming.   The gold dust shrub is in bloom.  Around the water fall, the coreopsis and the coral bells as well as the day lily in bloom.

The bee balm cherry fiz and bubble gum are in bloom.   Rossanne geranium and the red, yellow and pink roses.  

The lamium are still in bloom as well.   Along the deck the annabelle hydrangea and the polish spirit clematis are all bloom.

It's been a good June.   Many flowers are now blooming and hope that they will keep up throughout the summer.

Biokova Hardy Geranium

Name:  Hardy Geranium
Variety:  Geranium Biokova
Type:  Perennial
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  10" Bloom time:  Spring into summer
Flower color: white
Fragrance: none
Plant location: Perennial garden sw corner


Care:   bloom boost in summer, dead head, cut to ground in winter

Dianthus Pinks

Name:  Pinks
Variety: Dianthus gratianopolitanus Firewitch
Type:  Perennial
Light:  Full Sun
Size:  6"
Bloom time:  Spring into summer
Flower color: pink
Fragrance: lightly fragrant
Plant location: Back Yard west of waterfall

Weekly Report

We got all the shrubs with fert stakes and bayer on the roses and hydrangeas.

Front:  The weigela is in bloom.

South:  The catmint is in bloom.  Also the wisteria are blooming

Back yard:  in bloom:  cheddar pinks, chives, iris, nine bark, bridal spirea, lamium.

Some of the annuals are doing well.  

Weekly Report

Front yard:  Fushia moss phlox are still blooming

Back yard in bloom:  lamium, bleeding heart, candy tuft, lily of valley, iris, summer snow ground cover, dianthus, summer snow flake viburnum.

We have all the annuals planted and things look lovely.   We had to replace the coreopsis but didn't find one that will survive the winter.  It's irritating they sell ones that won't.

Annual Purchase

Despite planning, I ended up with a few different plants than I wanted.  It was due to the fact that they were so picked over by Monday when we got back down there to purchase.

Front yard:
Pots by the bench--6 pink dailias
Pots on the steps--6 vincas
Pots on the porch per each pot--2 Sun patiens deep rose; 1 ornamental millet, 3 calibrachoa (million bells white

Back yard;
Shepherds hook hanging pots per each--1 million bells yellow, 1 million bells orange
Gray pot on the gray step stool--heliotrope aborescens
Large hanging pot on large arbor--1 million bells in red, 2 bacopa in white and 2 bacopa in blue (I would have prefered lobelia)
White hanging pot on deck--1 million bells in red, 1 bacopa in white and 1 bacopa in blue
New Guinea impatiens paradise
Royal Geranium in dark pink
Under chimney--20 impatiens in white, pink, dark pink
Down steps--white and pink begonias
Purple pot on table--2 begonias left over and Barbarini Salmon Dianthus (this is acutally a perennial zone 4.  we may be able to save this in the perennial garden)

We also picked up tomatoes, cucs, zucchini, peppers, beans (we ended up with not enough and one wrong kind), green onions, basil and parsley.

Weekly Report

After a week being gone things have changed.

Front yard:  moss phlox are still in bloom.  The lilacs are blooming

South side:  tulips are still in bloom

Back yard:   Candy tuft is in bloom, lamium is in bloom.  Moss phlox are in bloom--all three colors.  Everything we planted before we left is growing nicely.   Still don't know if the yarrow or the coreopsis  will make it.    There is a lot of work out there to do.  Wayne has a long list.

Next week we need to find time to do fertilize stakes and fertilizer.  Plus I need to do copper spray.