With gas at a premium, chances are we’ll stick closer to home for our vacation adventures this year. Gardeners and quilters only have to travel to Elkhart County for a ...
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Rain may be cause of brown patches in lawn
Posted originally at Indiana Living Green in July, 2008 Recently, there has been a spate of queries about lawn care and disease. A woman wrote and sent photos to the Marion ...
Betony worthy of spot in sunny garden
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague asked me to help identify a perennial in her garden. It had square stems, low-growing leaves and several 12-inch stalks topped with dense, ...
Four seasons of service
Although we call serviceberry a tree, it is actually multistemmed shrub. In nature, serviceberry is an under story tree, growing on the fringes and in shafts of light in woodlands ...
Rain may be cause of brown patches in lawn
Recently, there has been a spate of queries about lawn care and disease. A woman wrote and sent photos to the Marion County Master Gardeners to ask about the brown areas on her ...
Three no-fail annuals for summer delights
Three low-maintenance annuals are definitely worth growing this summer. Babywing begonia is a subdued cousin of the fabulous dragon wingbegonia, all the rage a few summers ago ...
Fledgling birds cry ‘feed me’
This was posted originally at Indiana Living Green in June, 2008 You don’t have to be terribly alert to realize that this is fledgling time for birds. You only have to listen. ...
Correcting chlorosis is time consuming, expensive
This was posted originally at Indiana Living Green in June, 2008. Last fall, a tree company removed my 15-foot tall red maple that had been in the ground 12 years, yet ...
Old-fashion geraniums earn high marks
Sometimes I think we’re plant snobs. Geraniums (Pelargonium) seem to be at the bottom of the wish list for many gardeners because, well, they are geraniums — ordinary, old ...
More gardeners to grow food in 2008, survey says
This was posted originally at Indiana Living Green in May, 2008. With food costs on the rise, more people will plant vegetable gardens this year. Thirty-nine ...
