An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
About 100 years ago, two nurseries in Zionsville were having a duel, of sorts, over which one could produce the best dahlias. Dahlias were incredibly popular in the early 20th century and their mail order catalogs sold tubers not just to local gardeners, ...
The Purdue-Marion County Demonstration Garden, which features All-America Selections plants, is open throughout the growing season. (C) Photo Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp As you stroll around the Indiana State Fair, wander to the north end, just east of the DNR ...
I don’t care what the tags say, don’t plant hostas in full sun. Yes, there are several, such as ‘Sum and Substance’, labeled for full sun, but resist, I beg you. Sunburned hosta. Photo courtesy Karen Kennedy/Design in Bloom The hostas will likely fry. ...
Indoors Take cuttings from plants such as impatiens, coleus, geraniums and wax begonias to winter over indoors. These are called herbaceous cuttings. Root the cuttings in media such as vermiculite, perlite, peat moss or planting soil instead of water. Keep ...
A few readers share their plant worries, worries that many gardeners have. Here are suggestions to allay concerns. Leggy plants hanging around Perry M. of Greenwood, complains that all of his hanging baskets “get leggy in summer. They start out looking ...
