Landscape Notes

• above-average heat for this month
• fertilized azaleas and forsythia
• daffodils planted: ~60
• last pass for the year: mowed grass yesterday (long-sleeve black shirt)
• raised stepping stones in the south side of house bed (ready for more rock now)
• daylilys in the front sidewalk bed have recovered nicely (100% capacity)
• special-order iris tally: ~25
• transplanted nandina bushes...will be 100% naturalized mass no later than Fall 2012
• lost 1 azalea bush over the summer, replaced by moving its neighbor (filled-in nicely)
• dwarf burning bushes are close to averaging 5'

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 The dwarf burning bushes are having a good year.

Some years, prolonged drought cause them to drop leaves early, and their spectacular red fall color is short lived. CG expects at least 2 more weeks of autumnal splendor from this non-invasive variety.

 Simultaneously, the canna lilys are thriving in the October heat.

To the south in Little Rock, it has been a prolonged summer of humid heated misery:
a total of 117 days of at least 90 degrees this year

Habaneros for Everyone

Out of the half-dozen different pepper plants for sale, the habanero variety was the smallest.

With all of the plants being the same price, there were plenty habaneros left at the nursery.

After close inspection, CG picked 3 different pepper plants, one of them being the tiny habanero.

The plant looked like it might be able to produce one, or maybe two peppers.

 The plant grew three times the size of either of the other two plants, and produced more than 4 dozen peppers.