Please don’t make me leave Indiana, but as a gardener I’ve only grown sweet corn once. It was a bust. The plants took up a huge amount of space in my small garden and none of the ...
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That warm weather tease and its threat to plants
A lot of gardeners are going to be worried about their plants as we come through a week of 60 F days. The warmth will encourage daffodils and other spring bulbs to emerge from the ...
Ideas to reimagine your garden
One of the reasons I go to garden-related seminars is to learn something. During “The Garden Reimagined,” a recent horticulture symposium at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, I got a ...
What to do for the February blahs
Even though it’s short, February is blah-est winter month. It’s best function is as the bridge between winter and spring, and about this time of year, we’re all ready for ...
Tropical plants decorate our world, indoors and out
Wearable plants? Tiny plants in tiny pots? Braided plants? Orchids of many colors? Those are my eye-catching takeaways from my first trip to the Tropical Plant ...
Plants you probably should be growing
Gardeners always have favorite plants, including those they think are not used often enough. Last week, we looked over the shoulders of Indiana gardeners at their ...
Indiana gardeners name the best new plants in their gardens
Pretty soon, new plants will beckon to us from newspapers and magazines, catalogs and the benches at garden centers: “Try me!” “Try me!” To help guide our plant lust, I checked ...
Effort under way to make butterfly weed Indiana’s official wildflower
The Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society has launched an initiative to declare butterfly weed as the state’s official wildflower. Society members plan to ...
Celebrate cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli and other healthful brassicas
A lot of us already know about red and white cabbage, but what about purple broccoli or orange cauliflower? Those are some members of the brassica family of plants, which also ...
Settle in with a good book or two this winter
Happy New Year! Now that we’re headed into 2017, it’s time to spend a few quiet weeks, stowing energy for the winter season and perhaps entertaining ourselves by learning something ...
