Wednesday, August 7, 2024

8/7/2024 Brugmansia Corner

 











Bud Watch!  Here they come!











8/18/2024

Today was my day to work on some 
of the brugs.  Above you saw what
we call our Brug Corner, well it was
time to remove some leaves and 
rearrange.



















I had a request for a photo of each that makes
up the Brug Corner.  So here is some photos
of those before the clean up.






























































































The one in the pink pot has a nice
Albino sport.


























This one has several Albino Sports
with one having albino buds.





































It's base has several Albino Sports.







































Several folks wanted to see what
we have in the yard.  Let me tell 
you I took the loppers to them 
prior to my May surgery as I knew
I wouldn't be able to take care of 
them all.  To my surprise they 
don't look all that bad.  They too
need a thinning of the leaves.  Some
of them are starting to show buds.
































That should give you a look at our Brugmansia
Collection.

Sunday, August 4, 2024

A Friend's Request!


 They have seen the photos on
 my FB page and asked if I would
take some time and post the awesome
ones here.  I don't leave anything on
my FB page, so they thought it would
be nice to just put up some of the photos
here on the blog.  So I have 6 months of
photos to go through to fine the best of 
the best, in my spare time.  Will post as
I go through each folder for this year.

Will post some when I have time.





















Elephant Garlic













Perennial Hibiscus 'Luna Red' bud.




















 Siberian Iris



















Hymenecallis testalis
Peruvian Lily / Spider Lily




















Pink Sedum




















Double Pink Hollyhock


















Blue Sea Holly












Brugmasia kHT's Pink















Clematis "Crispa"


I. 'Starship Enterprise'




















A. 'Red Tiger'




















A. 'Julia'




















B. karma's Pink


















A. one of our crosses
















H. Texas Star Alba


























































Rose of Sharon variegated!  From one
of our shrubs.

July 28 - August 3, 2024 / Useless Information

 On average each day while you
were awake, you spent 16 hours 
and 40 minutes more NOT using 
your phone than using it!

See I'm a busy person!

So how many of you spend your
day on your phone?

Another notice saying I'm 15 
hours 55 minutes-- 45 minutes
less than last week.

Perennial Hibiscus Time!

 This is what was found last night, first
but to unfurl.  I'll get a photo this morning
if they are open.




















8/4/2014  This am!







































H. Luna Red, the two above w/red center




















H. Luna White with a touch of pink.




















H. Luna Pink







































H. Summer Carnival w/ bronze leaves




















H. Pure White w/red center, Luna Collection




















A. Plum Crazy






























































































































More to come . . . . . . 




Thursday, August 1, 2024

August, 2024--Cleaning up

  8/1/2024 was clean up for Sable's area.
I took a full bag of mulched up evergreen
junk off her gravel area.  Yes, the male cones
are still coming down!

8/6/2024  again I was out cleaning up Sable's
area and vac up another bag of evergreen junk
from this area.

Then I decided it was time to clean out the
north beds where the north evergreen were 
dropping and covering the garden beds below
due to the trees are dying.  I vac up 4 full bags
off this area to be able to see the mulch not
the pin junk.  Can you see the mulch??














8/13/2024

I vac up 2 full bags from the front gravel 
parking space where DH parks his truck.
Then I picked up 4 full bags off Sable's area
behind the gate. 

8/14/2024

Today I just blew off the walkway and the
gravel area which is Sable's area.  Then I
blew off the driveway and finished cleaning
by doing so with the hose to remove the
chips that was missed.  I got a phone call
from the team nurse to check up on me.  
After explaining I over did it yesterday
I was told I'm still in the recovery mode
and needed to take the day off!  Not in 
my world when I deal with males that
don't care.  They don't know how to clean!

8/15/2024

I vac up 9 full bags of pine wood chips
today after they took the trunks down.
I also blew off both roofs due to chips
up on them.  I had to wash off the plants
several times to get them clean.  I also 
blew out the circle again due to the 
tree folks didn't clean up!  So now you
know why I don't allow folks to cleanup!
They don't know how to clean up!!









































































It took me 3 and a half hours to clean up 
the mess that took them 4 hours to make
Yes, the trunks are still in their yard. 
Once the wind come through this week
end I'll go back out and clean again.  I 
have one happy dog, she has her space
back!!

8/17/2024

We decided to take the Heavenly
Bamboo out as their bases were covered
with pine chips, pine cones and needles.
I then got to clean up the whole area and
wash down the fence!  It's so bare out
there even Sable was shocked.  She had
to check it all out.  More space for her!

That was a $9.00 run to H&H to get 
rid of it due to the bins were full.  I
vac up another 2 bags!

Our Allergies are terrible!

This next week we will tackle what
is between the carport and the fence
plus what is between the shed/Brug
House and carport.

8/25/2024

Yesterday we tackled the carport area!
We took 45 gallons of pine stuff off 
this area and I was able to clean the fence
before the new carport went up. We
had a foot of this all along the fence.
We also found a branch that went in 
one spot and came out another on the
carport.  DH is working on a letter with
photos to show the damage for the Tree
Remover, he wants damages paid due to
they were told about the carport and the
classic car under it.  I'm ready to go to the 
BBB and their corporate office due to the
run around we are getting.  The first gal
was caught in so many lies!  Then she 
demanded we meet when we both had
doctors appt..  she was told this but
still showed up and DH is handling this.



Last day of the month and I'm still watching
the north trees dump in our yard!  Maybe
I'll get to cleaning up this area on Sunday
when the weather isn't so hot, maybe not??

Still Cutting Back Spring Flowers

 Just taking is slow but I'm getting
a lot done.  Last night the cardoons
were cut back!  Hopefully today 
I can get the last of the Daylilies
cut and call it a day due to we are
about to get hot . . . . . . I don't do
the heat and 100 is way to hot to 
be out in the garden.