Raymond Leppard’s garden will be abuzz next Saturday as the setting for a national conversation about the inspiration, design, budget, plants and other aspects of the creative ...
Hoosier Gardener
You Can Grow That! July 2012: Crocosmia
Last year I broke down and brought ‘Lucifer’ home. I brought another one home this year, too. You just can’t beat the long flowering period and show of this little ...
Celebrate the 4th of July with red, white and blue plants
Red, white and blue are the colors of Independence Day, so here are some suggestions. Sun Blue angelonia (Angelonia) or blue salvia (S. farinacea), surrounded by red ...
HortusScope for July 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 ...
Is it a bed or a border? Garden language decoded
We hear landscape and garden terms bandied about all the time, but do we know what they mean? I must confess that I only recently learned the difference between a ...
Purdue launches Website to help Indiana gardeners deal with drought
As if home gardeners don't have their hands full just trying to keep their plants healthy in this drought and scorching heat, they also need to know this: environmental stress this ...
Third year of dry, hot weather threatens trees and shrubs
What we need now, and I mean now, is for the skies to open up with the rain...a long, slow soaking rain. Indianapolis has had only one-half inch of rain since early June. During ...
The turtle better live
UPDATE: The turtle, named Keystone, is a mature, male, red-eared slider. It has a new home at Garfield Park. Nature has come front and center this week with the Hoosier ...
Slugs do like their beer
A lot of people think they have to snip off the flowers on bedding plants and other annuals before planting them. Not so, says Diane Blazek of the National Garden Bureau, a ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day June 2012
June is the height of the blooming season here in Central Indiana, where higher than normal temps in winter has pushed even more flowers into bloom. As I look out my office ...