If the pruners have been burning a hole in your garden glove, go ahead and trim up the lilac, forsythia, viburnum and other ...
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Get the garden ready for the big event
If June has a season, it’s weddings. No matter when the wedding or other special event is scheduled for your garden, you need to ...
Plants vs skeeters: Skeeters win!
Every year, customers come into garden centers looking for plants that will repel mosquitoes. The shoppers want something they can plant in the ground or in pots around their deck, ...
Honeydew droppings make mess
This was published originally May 25, 2018 Something unpleasant drips like rain from oaks in Indianapolis. It may have the innocuous-sounding name honeydew, but ...
Ready. Set. Go. Planting Time
It’s time. Go ahead and plant your tomatoes, squash and other summer veggies. Since peppers like even warmer soil, plant those in a couple of weeks. And while you’re at it, ...
Celebrate all our charges on Mother’s Day
Although my son lives more than 1,000 miles away with his wife, I have everyday Mother’s Day reminders of him in my garden and in my life. Probably my favorite for outdoors is a ...
Three native plants you may not know about
There are a lot of Eastern U.S. native perennials that are lesser known and underused we might consider for our gardens. Here are three spring bloomers. Also called bellwort ...
Rushing spring may be hazardous to warm-season annuals
Garden center employees have thoughts about the customers who show up on the first warm days of spring. These are the folks who want to buy tomato, pepper and geranium plants ...
Leaves’ spotty behavior frustrates homeowners, gardeners
Probably the No. 1 problem that frustrates homeowners and gardeners is spots on the leaves of trees and shrubs. It bothers them so much that at least 291 people sent samples of ...
Spring ephemerals: Here today, gone tomorrow
Some native spring perennials are here and gone within just a few weeks. They are called ephemerals, and although perennial, they disappear without a trace after their show. The ...