The gift-giving season is a great time for gardeners. It’s a time to reflect on your favorite tools and on tips from the past year and how to share them…
As the weather turns colder in autumn, many Midwesterners are reflecting on the gardening season and already making planting plans for next year—whether to fill a conspicuous gap in the…
Keep new plantings well watered until the ground freezes. Evergreens, both newly planted and established, benefit from fall irrigation to reduce the likelihood of winter burn. Protect trees and shrubs…
The vibrant offerings of bulb catalogs are entrancing as summer becomes a memory and autumn cold creeps in. We’re already full of gardening ideas for the spring season ahead. Bulbs…
Use a light touch with fall cleanup, and leave plants that provide winter interest standing. Grasses and seed heads of plants such as blazing star (Liatris spp. and cvs., Zones…
By late August, garden containers (and sometimes their gardeners) can look a little worse for wear. These containers may have been through a lot since springtime—the plants may have been…
Still have some empty spaces in your garden beds? September’s cooler temperatures and rainfall make it a great month for planting, and new plants still have sufficient time for root…
If ornamental grasses were the underutilized landscape plants to finally reach popularity after the year 2000, sedges are their shady sisters that have been deservedly recognized in the last decade.…
In the Midwest, gardeners are generally an optimistic lot. If consistent heavy rainfall is the topic of conversation, a typical response is, “At least the weeds are easy to pull!”…
Hot and humid Midwestern summers allow us to luxuriate in a taste of the tropics in the garden. Although tropical flowers in red, orange, and yellow can provide a fiery…
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