From the online version of HortScience Currently, one of the most widely discussed topics in the green industry, which is promulgated by consumers exhibiting greater ...
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Orchard in Bloom ripe with ideas for Indiana gardeners
Orchard in Bloom is lovely this year. There are many more plants available for purchase than in previous shows. The gardens seem more restrained this year, with a couple standing ...
Dead head tulips in the Indiana garden
Indiana gardeners struggle with tulips that don’t come back year after year. There are a few things we can do to help the spring blooms. Tulips do best when allowed to go ...
Daffodils do best when they have their own vase
A noted west coast grower of spring bulbs offers some tips for using daffodils as a cut flower in a recent podcast at www.afreshbouquet.com The most important one — don’t mix ...
Dirt: the Movie examines Earth’s skin and health of the planet
It’s alive! The stuff we call and treat like dirt is alive and is Earth’s equivalent of skin. One teaspoon of dirt teems with a billion organisms that are the root of a healthy ...
Tips for using daffodils as cut flowers
Author Debra Prinzing and photographer David Perry have posted a podcast with Jan Roozen, a spring bulb specialist from the Northwest United States. Roozen offers tips on how to ...
Spring garden tips for Midwestern gardeners
The Hoosier Gardener offers tips for spring time gardening for Midwestern gardeners on a recent podcast at Angie's List. ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, April 15, 2010
When I pulled into my driveway about 6 p.m. on April 14, the scene and the scent took my breath away. The Viburnum x burkwoodii and V. juddii are in full bloom perfuming the air so ...
Orchid show at Garfield Park Conservatory
Central Indiana Orchid Society and other enthusiasts from throughout the Midwest will display hundreds of specimens from their collections at the Garfield Park ...
The Hoosier Gardener goes to Keukenhof
I've just returned from a weeklong trip to the Netherlands, where I and about two dozen other garden writers strolled through nine gardens and visited Keukenhof, the ultimate place ...