Last weekend, urban gardener Amy Mullen traded her jeans for a corset and gown at the Indianapolis Steampunk Society’s Steampunk Through the Looking Glass at the Columbia ...
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Living landscape: more than plants are alive
When you see or hear the words “living landscape,” what do you think? That all the plants are alive? But the term is much broader than just plants, although flora plays a key ...
A fond farewell to Organic Gardening magazine
The last issue of Organic Gardening is on the shelves now. Rodale, the name synonymous with all-things organic, will relaunch Organic Gardening as Organic Living with a May-June ...
Plants to support bees in spring, summer and fall
If you are worried about the decline of bees in your landscape, there are some things you can do to encourage their presence – plant flowers. There are a lot, but here are six of ...
Flowers on the menu = Tasty ingredient
As restaurants embrace farm-to-table fare, gardeners need to celebrate their own backyard bounty. We already know about tomatoes, peppers, squash, beans and lettuces, but there ...
Evergreen perennials for the Midwest garden
Say evergreens and most people think pine, spruce or arborvitae. But several perennials fall into this category, including a couple of grass-like plants. Sedge Sure, sedge ...
Heirloom or hybrid?
If you’ve been perusing the mail order garden catalogs or online websites, you may have come across some confusing or unfamiliar terms. Take heirloom, for instance. An heirloom ...
Celebrate the 2015 Color of the Year with marsala-colored plants for the garden
If marsala wine is known for anything, it’s cooking. Marsala chicken, anyone? But, Pantone, the powers that be in all-things-color, picked the its hue to celebrate in 2015. “A ...
Extension and Master Gardener volunteers help others grow
This was the year that cooperative extension services throughout the United States celebrated their 100th anniversary. Although we may consider cooperative extension a purely ...
Easy-peasy gifts from the garden
Gardeners have great opportunities for a few quick, but not-so-dirty gifts from the garden. For many of us, something homegrown makes the most thoughtful and memorable gift. For ...