The city has announced its schedule for fall leaf collection and gardeners have some decisions to make. Will you rake and bag? Mow? Chop? Or, compost your own leaves to make your ...
Prime time for planting spring-blooming bulbs
Gardeners are nothing, if not hopeful. And one of our signs of hope is the fall planting of spring-blooming bulbs: Tulips, crocus, daffodils, hyacinths and alliums to name a ...
Beautyberry lives up to its name in the fall garden
If you are looking for a shrub that will perk up the fall season, check out beautyberry. Although beautyberry (Callicarpa spp.) blooms in early summer, the tiny whitish-pink ...
Prepare for winter, and sprout micro greens, too
If your houseplants summered outdoors, it’s time to bring them back inside, if you haven’t already. You want to do this once the night temps hit the 50s. Before you move them ...
Meet a couple of hydrangeas that bloom reliably
The most frequent question about hydrangeas is why don’t they bloom. Breeders have boosted the reliably blooming types by at least two in the last couple of years, and these ...
Trial plants will do what they want to do
Sometimes you get it right and sometimes, well, Mother Nature has her way. This past spring, I was thrilled with the trial combos I got from Ball Horticulture Co., annuals ...
Annuals a best buy for season-long color, blooms
Annuals have always been billed as a lot of color for the coin, because their seasonal role is to bloom their heads off, set seed and die. And, even though consumer interest has ...
Fall-planted bulbs bridge the season from spring to summer
You know that gap between spring and summer, when there’s nothing blooming in the garden? It’s after the spring bulbs, columbine (Aquilegia) and Iris have bloomed but before ...
Garden spiders add color and drama to the landscape
This time of year, garden spiders spin their orbs in the landscape. The yellow and black females are larger than the males, more colorful and usually more visible, especially ...
Rose rosette disease is easily spread and fatal
There’s a rose disease showing up in Indiana and it’s deadly. Called rose rosette disease, sometimes referred to as RRD, is a killer, affecting the $400 million domestic rose ...