Saturday– always my favorite day of the week. Our neighborhood is quiet, except for a few scattered tourists… I tackle some paperwork, but get no writing done. Mike works professionally and then does some much-needed pruning and other garden work. I continue cleaning the garden-room in our little netherworld. At evening, with us at the dining table, the sky turns the color of lemon sherbet. After dinner, we work, I make the bottom layers for Jaffa cakes, and we watch a marathon of an edgy movie, “Heat” –MJH.
Some notes on the vines on the lowest level of the south side in Mariposa. They’ve been in place a few years and have seldom been pruned. Today I pruned a lot of deadwood out of the wisteria.
| Species |
Variety |
Water |
Prune |
Blooms |
Lowes* |
| Vine Lilac
| Hardenbergia violacea |
Semi-Moist |
Growth Control |
Winter-Spring |
L5100 |
| Hall’s Honeysuckle
| Lonicera japonica ‘Halliana’ |
Semi-Moist |
Keep Compact |
Spring-Fall |
L3046 |
| Pyracantha
| Pyracantha sp. |
Semi-Moist |
Annually |
Spring |
L4567 |
| Purple Leafed Honeysuckle
| Lonicera japonica ‘Purpurea’ |
Semi-Moist |
Keep Compact |
Spring-Fall |
L3792 |
| Vine Lilac
| Hardenbergia violacea |
Semi-Moist |
Growth Control |
Winter-Spring |
L5100 |
| (small veggie patch) |
| ‘Purple’ Wisteria
| Wisteria sinensis ‘Purpurea’ |
Arid-Dry |
Feb & Jul |
Late Spring |
L3088 |
*Lowes codes identify plants at Lowes Plants.
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