2023-04-16: Mom's in Town

Sunday, April 16, 2023

High: 77.9

Low: 50.9

Partly Cloudy

Tasks

• Went to Painter's Greenhouse (again) and got some more perennials. Here is what I picked up:
• Liatrus Spicata (Blazing Star)
• Actaea Simplex (Bugbane)
• Ceratostigma (Dwarf Plumbago) x3
• Salvia Nemoros (Sage, Caradonna)
• Eutrochium Maculatum (Joe Pye Weed)
• Lysimachia Punctata (Golden Alexander)
• Hypericum Calycinum (Aaron's Beard)
• polygonatum commutatum (Solomon's Seal)
• Aruncus Dioicus (Goat's Beard)
• Scutellaria (Skullcap)
• Brunnera Macrophyllia (Bugloss)
• asarum splendens (Chinese Wild Ginger) x2
• asclepias incarnata (swamp milkweed)
• Penstemon Blackbeard
• monarda didyma jacob cline (Bee Balm)
• calamintha nepeta (Calamint)
• nepeta x faassenii (catmint)
• amsonia hubrichtii (bluestar)
• monarda punctata (spotted bee balm)
• vitis labrusca (niagra grape)
• rubus (snowbank blackberry)
• Aralia Cordata (Sun King)
• Brought the figs back in because the low is expected to be 42 tonight
• Planted a few things:
• Forsythia (font bank)
• Leatherleaf Viburnum (front bank)
• Creeping St. John's Wort (three of them on the front bank)
• Niagara grape (replaced the Thompson's Seedless)
• Snowbank Blackberry (replaced the Yellow Anne Raspberry)

Ideas:

• Would like to start a new path connection tomorrow
• Get some more dirt

Both of the Jujubes started showing some green today

Goumi fruit!

Leatherleaf Viburnum

Forsythia

Spit bugs seen on one of the Elderberry on the front bank

Creeping St. John's Wort -- Planted three of these on the front bank today

First ladybug seen this year (peach tree)

Replaced a dead-looking Yellow Anne Raspberry with this white blackberry called "Snowbank"

Replaced the Thompson (dead?) with this Niagara Grape

Busted this thing out today and mowed the back and west side

Our lizard friend

Is this a black soldier fly? A bunch of them on the peaches. I'm pretty sure it is. If so, that was their larvae that I noticed in late winter.

Did some fig tree pruning (Olympian here)

Closet tomatoes about ready for an up-pot

St. Martin root alert

Home made cutting

I did not expect this improved celeste to root, but hey