Every spring, I’m always a bit surprised by the ornamental onions that pop up amid the oakleaf hydrangea in the front garden. For weeks, I’m under the spell of daffodils, ...
Bird friendly environment as easy as a bird bath
All over Indianapolis, birds are nesting, laying eggs, keeping them warm, hatching babies, keeping them warm and nourished until they take flight. That’s a lot of work, but ...
Don’t get tangled up with the wrong vine
The basic design elements of planting a container are pretty simple: thriller, filler and spiller. The thriller is the focal point of the pot, usually the tallest plant. Fillers ...
Saving the lives of warm-season plants
I’ve been saving lives the last couple of weeks…the lives of basil, peppers, tomatoes, rosemary, impatiens and geraniums (Pelargonium), to name a few. That’s because people want ...
Kids gardening: Good for vitamin N
We hear a lot about vitamin deficiencies, and kids are not immune, frequently coming up short on their vitamin N for nature. One way to bolster their vitamin N is to get kids ...
Plant sales rain or shine
Some of the best things about spring are the plant sales held by various groups, usually as fundraisers for their programs or other activities. The sales are good places to buy ...
Keep your garden and your chickens safe
When I was young, my two sisters and I piled into the car with my parents and headed out for some Easter shopping. We went to the G.C. Murphy store in Fountain Square where my dad ...
Transplant Easter lily to the garden this summer for blooms next year
Next Sunday is Easter and the plant of the holiday is a lily, sometimes dubbed the “white-robed apostle of hope.” Why lilies are associated with Easter is the stuff of ...
Beautiful food in a postage stamp-size garden? You can do that!
In the last 10 days, I’ve received two books with the same theme: food gardening. It’s no surprise to garden centers, mail order and online retailers and, apparently publishers, ...
Come along to the 2015 Indiana Flower and Patio Show
This year's trip to the Indiana Flower and Patio Show on Saturday revealed quite a selection of better than usual garden designs and plants. Many of the companies did a better job ...
