If the pruners have been burning a hole in your garden glove, go ahead and trim up the lilac, forsythia, viburnum and other spring-blooming shrubs, if needed. Waiting to prune risks the removal of next spring’s ...
Container Garden Design
Replace drowned plants, prune spring shrubs
Get the garden ready for the big event
If June has a season, it’s weddings. No matter when the wedding or other special event is scheduled for your garden, you need to plan, plan, plan. Start with ...
Plants vs skeeters: Skeeters win!
Every year, customers come into garden centers looking for plants that will repel mosquitoes. The shoppers want something they can plant in the ground or in pots around their deck, patio, fire pit or porch. You only have to plug “mosquitoes and plants” into ...
June garden checklist
Indoors Houseplants will need more water and fertilizer during summer growing period. General landscape Prune spring-flowering shrubs within a month after blooms fade. Supplement water as needed. Most newly planted stock needs an inch of water every ...
Honeydew droppings make mess
Something unpleasant drips like rain from oaks in Indianapolis. It may have the innocuous-sounding name honeydew, but there’s nothing harmless about. In fact, let’s just say it’s gross and could be ...
