An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
Pretty much anywhere you ride or drive along Indiana’s country roads this time of year, you’ll see tall bluish-purple flowers of ironweed. You can’t miss the color. In preparation for this article, I researched the book and movie Ironweed to see ...
Indoors Dig and repot herbs growing outdoors, or take cuttings to pot up and grow indoors. Bring houseplants that spent the summer outdoors back indoors before night temperatures fall below 55 degrees. Gradually decrease light to acclimate plants and help ...
When I was weeding, I started pulling what I thought was Japanese day flower (Commelina communis), which looks similar to spiderwort (Tradescantia spp.) But the closer I looked at the flower, I realized it was not the exotic species. Rather it ...
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 ...
Sapphire Surf Caryopteris. Photo courtesy First Editions Plants. I don’t even remember where my first caropyteris came from back in the ‘90s. I’m sure it was a trial plant. I took it down to show my cousin William at his greenhouse and we were both ...
