Compared to last year, when crispy and brown defined the landscape, this year’s weather has created a lush, tropical jungle. Trees, shrubs, perennials and vegetables have been ...
Blueberry harvest just sweet enough
Ok, the blueberry harvest did not fill a bushel, but it did provide just enough of the sweet fruit in a green salad for a family dinner. This is year three of ‘Northsky’ and ...
You Can Grow That! July 2013: Fireworks in the garden
If you’re looking to spark up the landscape, consider some plants with fireworks. ‘Fireworks’ (Pennesetum setaceum rubrum) is a variegated fountain grass that is a great ...
HortusScope for July 2013
Here's HortusScope for July 2013, a checklist of garden and nature related events compiled as a public service by Wendy Ford of Landscape Fancies. Please click on the link below to ...
Herbs from the garden freshen summer fare
The herbs are coming on and for many of us, we wonder what to do with them. Here are a few suggestions that you may not have thought of for summer fare. A few months back, I read ...
Today’s begonias are not like our grandmothers’ begonias
If your image of begonias is limited to the serviceable (yet pretty) wax-leaf varieties with bronze or green leaves (B. x semperflorens-cultorum), here’s an eye ...
Cicada redux in honor of east coast gardeners
In honor of gardeners in the eastern part of the United States, here’s a Hoosier Gardener column that ran in The Indianapolis Star April 21, 2007 about the emergence of the 17-year ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: June 2013
This is the time of year between spring and summer, when a few late spring perennials and shrubs are still lovely, but summer blooms are a few weeks away, the garden seems to quiet ...
Celebrate National Pollinator Week by planting in clusters
June 17 to 23 is National Pollinator Week when we celebrate insects and animals that help produce $29 billion worth of food, including apples, nuts and tomatoes. And then there are ...
Diseases create problems for bedding impatiens but not for maples
It’s been one of those springs—cool and wet, which is just the right formula for leaf diseases. Maples, in particular, have brown or black spots, most likely a fungus disease ...