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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 ...
Beyond the beach in Porter County takes visitors to gardens
A lot of people know about Lake Michigan’s beaches in northwest Indiana, but what about gardens? One of the youngest arboretums in the country is in Valparaiso, founded in 1997 ...
Booksigning at Bookmamas at Ellenberger Park’s farmers market
The Hoosier Gardener will be signing books — The Visitor's Guide to American Gardens and The Indiana Gardener's Guide — at the monthly farmers market, noon to 3 p.m., June 10, 2012 ...
Some old landcape practices die hard
Here are a few old gardening practices that seem to linger: When planting a tree or shrub, what comes out of the hole should go back into the hole. Do not amend the soil with ...
