Thousands of volunteers will plant 73,000 native trees, shrubs and perennials in the interchanges along a six-mile stretch of I-70, from I-465 to I-65, on Thursday, Oct, 7. As ...
College campus trees focus of Arbor Day photo contest
Capture an image of a beautiful tree in front of an iconic building or landmark located on a college campus and you could win a laptop computer and have the Arbor Day Foundation ...
Tree identification part of emerald ash borer control
The dreaded emerald ash borer has been found along the Monon trail in Nora, in Sahm Park and at Castleton Square mall in Indianapolis. The Monon in Nora is the farthest south and ...
10 things I learned from my garden in 2010
C.L. Fornari, who blogs at Whole Life Gardening, challenged fellow bloggers to consider what we learned from our gardens in 2010. Here's my response. 10. Plants need water to ...
6 things you should know about the emerald ash borer
The Hoosier Gardener talks with Jud Scott, a certified arborist and owner of Vine & Branch, about the emerald ash borer, Sept. 22 on Indianapolis' Fox 59's Morning News. The ...
Native spring bloomers for Midwest gardens
In the September issue of Angie's List magazine's Midwest edition, the Hoosier Gardener gets tips from Midwestern gardeners about native bulbs and other ephemerals to plant in the ...
Black Velvet petunia is another show stopper
The Simply Beautiful brand will introduce three new petunias in 2011, each with show-stopping traits. These plants, developed by Ball Horticulture, stopped people in their ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day September 2010
The other day, a guest on one of NPR’s talk shows referred to ‘withering weather.’ Indeed, those words absolutely describe the way my garden and the plants in it look. The withered ...
Recycle plastic and clay pots at the Indianapolis Museum of Art
The Indianapolis Museum of Art's greenhouse will accept empty nursery pots for recycling and reuse, 10 am. to 1 p.m., Oct. 2. These reclaimed pots are used by the greenhouse, ...
High grades for a coleus and hardy sunflower in the Indiana garden
Summer is nearly over so it’s time to grade some of the new plants I’ve been trialing this season. Here are two that get an A: ColorBlaze Alligator Tears coleus (Solenostemon ...
