April 2 Thu
Started the journal for the year today.
picked up limb debris at the back (Mar 30)
picked up garden soil (Mar 30)
April 3 Fri
High today 76 !
Cleaned front right bed
April 4 Sat
Sprayed crab apple, weeping cherry, magnolia ,tree peony (to prevent blight)
Expected to loose Crab apple. Looks like the leaves are setting (it is a non bloom year)
Wonderful surprise. Five lupines and two coreopsis (from last year seems to waking up). protected them in cages
April 8 Wed
Cleaned up the bed next to the deck
Looks like the gardenmums planted last year are not coming back
April 9 Thu
Trimmed the roses. Most are very thin. Will keep them in cages
April 17, 21 Fri
Cleaned front bed mostly
Raining most of the time
removed burlap and mulch from the Dahlias. Probably the winter was too cold to see them come again
April 23 Thu
Cleaned the peonies. Initial cleaning over all over
April 26 Sun
Cleaned deck of moss and set up the furniture
April 27 Mon
Weeded the rose bed
Whacked the weeds
April
April
April
Apr 1, Tree peony showing some buds. Thought it was gone due to blight.
Apr 1, Bought soil
Apr. 1 Red Maple is bllom. Magnolia buds are small
Apr 10, Forsythia (updated)
Apr 3, Cleaned front, right bed
Apr 4, Forsythia inside
Daffodils - Deck
Deer protection (high tech)
April
April
April
Apr 14 - Lilac (leaves), Forsythia,Magnolia, Red Maple
Apr 17, Weeping Cherry
Apr 17 Fruiting cherry
Apr 24, periwinkle - purple flowers - difficult to see
Apr 27, roae bed
The caged roses are coming up well.
Maybe I will not have to replace them.
They got eaten to their base last year.
They grew so thin I was sure that they would not survive the year
I will keep my fingers crossed