Gardeners always have favorite plants, including those they think are not used often enough. Last week, we looked over the shoulders of Indiana gardeners at their ...
Archives for January 2017
Indiana gardeners name the best new plants in their gardens
Pretty soon, new plants will beckon to us from newspapers and magazines, catalogs and the benches at garden centers: “Try me!” “Try me!” To help guide our plant lust, I checked ...
Effort under way to make butterfly weed Indiana’s official wildflower
The Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society has launched an initiative to declare butterfly weed as the state’s official wildflower. Society members plan to ...
Celebrate cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and other healthful brassicas
A lot of us already know about red and white cabbage, but what about purple broccoli or orange cauliflower? Those are some members of the brassica family of plants, which also ...