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 ...
New, or sort of new, veggies to try
My philosophy is to always try new plants every year and this year, it will be vegetables. A few of these have been available for a few years, but they will be new to ...
Forget shamrocks and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with oxalis
We may call those clover-like plants we buy around St. Patrick’s Day shamrocks, but they aren’t. They are oxalis. St. Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to illustrate the ...
Under used or little known native perennials for the garden
Not too long ago, I put together a program about native plants. On the list, of course, were coneflower, black-eyed Susan and aster, common plants we all recognize as native ...
Amy Mullen is a hybrid of urban gardener and steampunker
Last weekend, urban gardener Amy Mullen traded her jeans for a corset and gown at the Indianapolis Steampunk Society’s Steampunk Through the Looking Glass at the Columbia ...
Living landscape: more than plants are alive
When you see or hear the words “living landscape,” what do you think? That all the plants are alive? But the term is much broader than just plants, although flora plays a key ...