Gardening and Landscaping
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6 Tips to Keep Your Petunias Blooming All Season
Caring for petunias is like tending a little floral fireworks show. They’ll dazzle you with color all season — but only if you help them out along the way. Here are six tips to keep your petunias healthy and vibrant all season long!
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How to Mulch for Optimal Results: A Comprehensive Guide
Mulching is one of the easiest and most effective ways to enhance the health of your garden and landscape, especially in Indiana, where weather can vary drastically from year to year. Learn about key considerations for mulching properly in Indiana’s unique climate and growing conditions.
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Earthworms–What they leave behind is golden for your houseplants
Earthworm castings are a great addition to houseplant care, providing both immediate and long-term benefits. They help keep plants healthy, boost growth, and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. Just be sure to use them appropriately based on your plant's needs—more isn't always better, so a little goes a long way!
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Bees in Indiana: A Spring Awakening and How to Support Them
Learn how supporting bees can help ensure a healthy and vibrant environment for many generations to come. Every little action counts, whether you're planting a pollinator garden, offering a shallow water dish, or simply appreciating the bees as they visit your flowers...[READ MORE]
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Zinnias: The Perfect Long-Blooming Pollinator Plants and How to Deadhead Them for Extended Blooms
Learn about zinnias being a gardener’s dream—colorful, low-maintenance, and highly beneficial for pollinators. By deadheading regularly, you can ensure that your zinnias keep producing flowers throughout the growing season, providing a steady source of nectar for bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds...[READ MORE]
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Pet-Friendly Plants: 10 Gorgeous, Non-Toxic Options for Your Home
Pet cautious when it comes to plants? Whether you're drawn to the airy fronds of a parlor palm or the vibrant colors of a prayer plant, these non-toxic plants will add charm to your space without any worries of harm coming to your pets...[READ MORE]
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Can Plants Hear and Respond to Sounds?
Plant bioacoustics also opens a window into the hidden world of plant communication and perception, challenging the notion that plants are otherwise, silent and unresponsive. -
8 Steps to Planning Your Spring Garden During the Winter Months
Planning your spring garden during the winter months may feel counterintuitive, but it's one of the best ways to ensure a successful growing season. By taking the time to reflect, research, plan, and prepare, you'll be ready to get your hands in the soil as soon as the frost thaws. -
Birds of a Feather––Indiana Migrations in Fall
The fall season in Indiana inspires birdwatchers to witness the remarkable rhythms of nature as birds migrate through the state. Watching a flock of sparrows dance among the trees, or listening to the trumpeting geese passing overhead fills us with a special sense of wonder. -
10 Ways to Protect Your Plants that Remain in the Ground Through Winter
If you want to protect plants that remain in the ground during winter, this guide will help you prepare your garden for the cold weather and ensure that your plants return strong in the spring. -
Art and Nature
As our human population continues to increase and the space needed for our species to survive spreads and, at times, collides too much with nature, our mindfulness of this crucial balance is even more critical. If we aren’t continuously cognizant of the delicate balance and coexistence between humans and nature, it can become overwhelming to the point of destruction for some living creatures. -
How to Start a Pollinator Garden
Every organism on earth is essential, playing its part, filling its role, and providing an essential function in the ecosystem. The delicate balanc...
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