One of my favorite native perennials is the purple coneflower. These plants are long-blooming, upright and nutritious powerhouses for birds and butterflies. The big flowering ...
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Keep plants from being ‘Gone with the Wind’
Most of us know to select plants that will do well in sun or shade or wet or dry soil. But what about the wind? The wind can be a damaging element for hanging baskets, for ...
Avoid hosta slug fest
When it comes to the shade, few perennials work as well as Hosta. We appreciate hosta for its foliage, which comes in a wide range of green and blue hues or with the leaves ...
Best locally grown produce in the backyard
The weather has begun to cooperate by ripening our produce. That wonderful spell of pleasant summer temperatures mixed with cool, rainy days has been washed from our memory by ...
Nation’s first quilt garden tour abloom in Elkhart County
With gas at a premium, chances are we’ll stick closer to home for our vacation adventures this year. Gardeners and quilters only have to travel to Elkhart County for a ...
Rain may be cause of brown patches in lawn
Posted originally at Indiana Living Green in July, 2008 Recently, there has been a spate of queries about lawn care and disease. A woman wrote and sent photos to the Marion ...
Betony worthy of spot in sunny garden
A couple of weeks ago, a colleague asked me to help identify a perennial in her garden. It had square stems, low-growing leaves and several 12-inch stalks topped with dense, ...
Four seasons of service
Although we call serviceberry a tree, it is actually multistemmed shrub. In nature, serviceberry is an under story tree, growing on the fringes and in shafts of light in woodlands ...
Rain may be cause of brown patches in lawn
Recently, there has been a spate of queries about lawn care and disease. A woman wrote and sent photos to the Marion County Master Gardeners to ask about the brown areas on her ...
Three no-fail annuals for summer delights
Three low-maintenance annuals are definitely worth growing this summer. Babywing begonia is a subdued cousin of the fabulous dragon wingbegonia, all the rage a few summers ago ...
