Week 1

Its cold, wet, but sunny. I'm waiting for really cold to do ice- I need to do it before the 25th.
cut back butterfly bush to ~12".
decided to round-up at back yard fence.
I have to prop up arbutilon more- probably cut it back. Decide what it needs for a trellis.
cut heads of hydrangea, and cut back to node with buds.
cut delphinium stalks off at the ground. Maybe some will grow back.
started getting new catalogs.
Thing from Annie's is growing big; I staked it up so it wouldn't flop.
Pruned around things to replace. I'll photo them, and then cut them back. Hope to shovel two of them and take them to the GPGC meeting on Tuesday.
The leptospermum was browning- too much water? or too little? so I cut it about 30%.
I swept the front and cut back the blue-rose of sharon a bit more
the yuletide camellia is still blooming- nice.
the fronds of the jasmine are all woven now, it's covering about 40%, now.
I used some smoke bush in an arrangement last week. The leaves lasted 5-8 days. They were bright orange, as advertised. Better for fall arrangements, but it looked good with the gray-green. Not the leaves are mostly all fallen outside.
I cut back the clematis armondii also. I fund pricker branches among them. It's a dirty job. There will be more. It seems to be the right time though. I resolve to round-up the pricker again this year. It will die! The pricks got infected in my hands again- it works to put bandaids on them with neosporin.