Yard

PRUNING TIMES:

Spring: Blueberries. Raspberries - cut out dead canes.

Late Spring After Blooms drop: Forsythia, Lilac, Red Weigelia, Snowball Viburnum, Dwarf Korean Lilacs.

Summer: Korean boxwoods after they get leggy.

Fall after leaves drop: Blackberries, Rose of Sharon, Snowball Viburnum leggy growth.

Late Winter: Apple (fruit trees), Wait until the coldest part of winter is over but before your trees start to flower. Can make minor cuts in the summer. Grapes

PLANTINGS:

• Right of garage

  • Forsythia, Daffodils, Mint by light post

  • Green Niagara grape, concord grape (ripe between Sep 15 - Oct 15) Pruning and Care of Grapes by OSU; Pre-treat to prevent Black Rot.

  • Crocosmia Lucifer next to grape vine post. Bought from Western Reserve Heritage Seed Co (Kent)

    • Care: https://www.gardenia.net/guide/learn-how-to-plant-and-care-for-your-crocosmia

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• Left of garage

  • hostas - Patriot and Halcyon

  • Hydrangea Paniculata - 2013

  • purple-flowered perennial

  • Caesar's Brother Siberian Iris from Raiya Daley - neighbor

• Back Yard:

  • Castle Spire Blue Holly: 3 planted in June 2020 purchased from Suncrest Gardens. Might need Castle Wall holly to pollinate for red berries.

• Back Stoop

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• Side Entrance

  • "Pardon my Purple" Bee Balm - Monarda didyma

  • Installed in 1994 by Joe Adams Landscaping

    • Dwarf Korean Lilacs, Red Weigelia, Korean boxwoods, Red Twig Dogwood, Lilac Bush, Lamium - white Nancy.

  • White elegant flowers 2020 from Western Reserve Heritage Seed Co

  • Pincushion Flower "Blue Note" planted 2020 from Robinson @ Hud. Farmers Market.

  • Sundrops from a Hudson Garden club member.

  • Blanche's Rose bush from grandmother in Yorktown Virginia. Planted 2003. Not a hybrid so will come back if freezing kills it above ground.

• Nantucket side yard

  • A wild rose grows here that appeared after we cleared this area of overgrown shrubs and trees. Someone stopped by the house one day saying they grew up here and remembered roses lining the driveway. I believe they are the Prairie Rose.

  • 3 Blueberry bushes from Robinsons. 2010 moved in 2016 after not producing and elm trees died in current location. They are doing great in 2020! We make a netted cage during picking season.

  • 3 Bottle Brush shrubs installed by Suncrest Gardens 2014

  • Red Dwarf Japanese Maple Tree installed by Suncrest Gardens 2014

  • 2 Viburnum? Shrubs installed by Suncrest Gardens 2014

  • Hyperion Dogwood $97.99 Suncrest Gardens May 2017

  • Hydrangea: Merritt's Supreme May 2016

  • Raspberry Bushes. Click here for maintenance doc I put together. Bought from Robinson's May 2019

    • 3 $10 ea Raspberry Heritage: Everbearing with a small spring crop & a larger fall crop/ No GMOs (Mid-late Medium-sized fruits with good color and flavor, firmness, and freezing quality. High yielding.

    • 3 $22 ea Anne Yellow Raspberry Plant

• Front Porch

  • Trumpet Creeper 2017 Suncrest Gardens

  • Lo & Behold 'Purple Haze' Dwarf Butterfly Bush $25 Suncrest Gardens, Died over winter

  • Tree Peony by Trade Mark: Protect the plant with straw or other mulch during the winter and fertilize in August. Bought at Holden Arboretum plant sale 2018

  • Caesar's Brother Siberian Iris 2001 from neighbor Raiya Daley

• Front Hedge

  • Rose of Sharon - pre 1992

  • Big Blue Eryngium - Robinson's from Hudson Farm Market 2020.

• Sign Post

  • Yellow Lilies & black-eyed susans, tulips and daffoldils.

• Sidewalk North Side

  • Tompkins County King Apple Semi-Dwarf $12 75% off 2016 Stan Hywet (Heirloom?)

  • Apple tree from Robinson's Garden Center 2015 - unknown variety.

  • Barberry Bush planted in 1990's.

  • Old Apple Tree died in 2020. Here's a video of the apples in the cider press at the market.

• Garden Fence (in front of)

  • Yellow Yarrow

  • Echinacea (pink cone flowers)

  • Hibiscus moscheutos Rose Mallow Luna Blush

    • Cut back dead stems in early spring. New growth in late spring.

• Pots on side porch

  • 2018:

    • calendula Pacific beauty - (orange), Brad's Atomic Grape tomato (heirloom from Kent)

    • hanging basket: Annuals by provenwinners.com from Foote Valley Farm

      • Orange Symphony (osteospermum hybrid)

      • Persian Shield(strobilanthes dyerianus),

      • New Wonder(scaevola aemula)