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 ...
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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 ...
Relax. Don’t do it. When you want to go to it.
This is the time of year when indulging one’s temptations may spell disaster in the landscape. Here’s why: Pruning spring and early summer blooming shrubs now will remove their ...
Merry Christmas to my Hoosier Gardener readers. Happy New Year, too.
Thank you readers for your questions and good cheer for another year. Here are my wishes for you: May all of your indoor and outdoor plants be strong and healthy. Eat local ...
B&W petunias, sedums and food plants in demand this spring
Entertaining for Race Day? Of course, black and white is the trendy choice this time of year and fortunately for race fans, Ball Horticulture saw our need. This year, the ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, May 2011
A few, nearly record-setting 80-plus degree days pretty much pushed Hoosier gardens from mid-spring to late spring. The Camassia came and went within a week. Although the season ...
Plan now for your Indiana vegetable garden
With all the snow on the ground and the colder than average temperatures, it’s a good time to sit back, page through seed catalogs or browse them on line and make plans for this ...
Location of Greg Speichert’s memorial service changed
UPDATED Nov. 25, 2010 for change in memorial service location, correction of date of death, addition of surivivors. Location of the service, 10:30 a.m., Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010, ...
Ros Creasy, edible landscape expert, to speak at IMA during the 2010 Spirit & Place festival
Rosalind Creasy, well-known advocate of edible landscaping, will be one of the keynote speakers during this year’s Spirit & Place. With the 10-day festival’s theme, Food for ...
10 things I learned from my garden in 2010
C.L. Fornari, who blogs at Whole Life Gardening, challenged fellow bloggers to consider what we learned from our gardens in 2010. Here's my response. 10. Plants need water to ...