An informed, yet personal take on natural gardening in Indiana and other dirty topics.
This time of year, we long for something, anything in the landscape besides evergreens. Evergreens are ok, but they are, well, green. An they there are the brown stems of shrubs with no leaves. How about a little red? The red twig or red stem dogwood stands ...
Indoors Repot house plants as they out grow current pots. Pot amaryllis bulb. Sketch garden plans, including what to grow, spacing, arrangement and number of plants needed. Order seeds and plants as early as possible for best selection from ...
I couldn’t remember what this houseplant was called so I described it as chartreuse, tree shaped and asked Google. It gave me lemon cypress and Norfolk Island pine because it has “a similar shape,” according to AI Overview. Norfolk Island pine doesn’t look ...
Holidays When shopping for a fresh-cut Christmas tree, check for green, flexible, firmly held needles and a sticky trunk base -- both indicators of freshness. Make a fresh cut and keep the cut end under water at all times. Evergreens can be trimmed ...
We love evergreens in the winter time, where their deep greens or silvery blues stand out against a drab or snowy background. Colorado blue spruce (Picea pungens) is in the blue category, and even in the dead of summer, offers a cooling scene in the ...
