Celebrate the field of landscape architecture with this award-winning documentary film, Women in the Dirt (2011, director Carolann Stoney, 74 minutes), featuring the works of seven ...
New perennials are pretty, charming and evergreen
Low-growing speedwells, a charming Solomon’s seal and dwarf Japanese anemones make up the second part of a new plant sampler. Look for these plants next spring in ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2012
Gardeners are nothing if not full of hope. We hope the seeds sprout. We hope a struggling plant starts to do better. We hope a plant blooms like it’s supposed to do. We ...
Doug Tallamy returns to Indiana with his native plant message
Doug Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, returns to Indiana in October to discuss his favorite subject — native plants and their role in our ecology. He will be the keynote ...
New perennials to come from Terra Nova Nurseries and Blooms of Bressingham partnership
During an annual mid-July trek to OFA, the country’s largest horticulture trade show in Columbus, Ohio, I found a few plants that hold promise for our landscapes in the next few ...
Spider mites love this hot, dry weather
Those specks of rusty gold on the leaves of coneflowers, tomatoes, dahlias, arborvitae, spruce and dozens of other plants in the garden are one more thing to blame on the excessive ...
You Can Grow That! August 2012: Hydrangeas
One of the showier shrubs in the garden is one that offers year-round interest. Hydrangeas, with their moptop and lacecap flowers, grab centerstage in the summer garden. And, they ...
HortusScope for August 2012
Here's HortusScope for August 2012, 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 ...
African lily’s flowers are the reason to grow this tropical plant
A tropical plant that is showing up more and more in the Indiana garden is Agapanthus, commonly called African lily or lily of the Nile. Agapanthus has densely packed balls of ...
Black, leathery spot on tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables is blossom end rot
“I am having a little problem with my tomatoes,” writes L.B. of Indianapolis. “The ones that are turning red the earliest have black spots on the bottom end of them, mostly on ...