For garden writers, this time of year is like Christmas. Every week for about two months, UPS, Fed Ex and the U.S. Post Office deliver boxes of trial plants to our ...
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Rose thorns are just one the hazards in the garden
Most of us connect stepping on a rusty nail with tetanus, the bacterial disease sometimes called lockjaw. But nearly one-third (31 percent) of injuries that resulted in tetanus ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2012
The roses (Rosa) are in full bloom for this Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, including the Flower Carpet and StoryBook brands. I love all of them even though I hate thorny ...
Some irises bloom twice a year
Two favorites in the perennial garden are German or bearded iris and Siberian iris. Siberian irises (Iris sibirica) are the easiest. They bloom about the same time as columbine ...
Celebrate your public garden on its special day
At least three sites in Indianapolis will participate in the 4th annual National Public Gardens Day, held each year the Friday before Mother’s Day. Public gardens offer ...
HortusScope for May 2012
Here's a calendar of garden and nature related activities compiled as a public service by Wendy Ford of Landscape Fancies. Please click on the link below to download your ...
Carolyn Harstad to speak in Irvington about speak native plants
Ok, native plant lovers...Carolyn Harstad will be in Indianapolis to speak at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, 2012. Carolyn is the author of "Go Native: Gardening With Native Plants and ...
Plant pots have many reuses before they are recycled
Sustainable landscaping can be a challenge, especially when you consider reduce, reuse, recycle. Each year the garden industry puts plants in more than 2 million pounds of ...
Many plants got hit hard with the seasonal freezes and frosts
Even though this past winter was hardly noticeable and spring has raged between 80-degree and 29-degree days, the best time to plant warm season plants is May 10. Most of what ...
Fabulous Foliage topic at Hussey-Mayfield Library in Zionsville
The Hoosier Gardener takes you on a visual stroll through a collection of some of the best annuals, tropicals, bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees that make a statement by their ...