1. There are over 150 named species of viburnums, and multitudes of named cultivars as well. 2. There are deciduous, semi-evergreen, and evergreen viburnums. 3. Viburnums can grow anywhere from two to thirty feet tall, depending on the variety. 4. Viburnum blossoms can be sweetly scented, unscented, or terribly stinky, depending, again, upon variety. 5....
Tomato plants grow with such speed and vigor that it’s easy to be tempted to keep feeding them, thinking that we need to add nutrients for all of that new growth our plant has put on. But the truth is that over-fertilizing tomato plants is just as bad as under-fertilizing them. Over-fertilized tomatoes develop lots...
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May 10, 2012 • Be sure to head over to Detroit’s Eastern Market on Sunday May 20th for one of the largest flower shows in the country. Hundreds of growers from across the region will fill the market with over 15-acres of high quality plants.
I am amazed every year at how fragrant these tiny flowers are!
Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis, the plant formerly known as Dicentra spectabilis) is one of the highlights of the spring gardening season in our family. Those delicate, dangling pink hearts with their backdrop of ferny foliage are so romantic and old-fashioned looking. I vow every year that I’m going to plant a few more. Hopefully, this...
Here are the gardening-related events for this week. If you have an event you’d like to add to the calendar, please email me at colleen [at] inthegardenonline [dot] com. Events for Sunday, April 22nd Container Gardening Workshop 1:00 P.M. Location: Bogie Lake Greenhouses, 1525 Bogie Lake Rd., White Lake, MI 48383 Milford Earth Day Festival...
February is not exactly a flurry of activity as far as gardening is concerned, but there are definitely a few things you can do this month to prepare for spring. 1. Get Ready for Seed Starting There are a few things you can sow indoors now if you want an early spring crop (which I’ll...
Living in an urban area, near a fairly busy street, we find plenty of debris in our garden. Potato chip bags, cigarette packs, booze and pop bottles, shopping bags — these and more are all common around here. But when I went out this morning to snap photos of the front garden, I found...
I’ve developed a bit of an obsession with ornamental grasses over the last few years, and Northern Sea Oats (Chasmanthium latifolium) is one of my favorites. Happily, it’s also very easy to grow here in Michigan. About Northern Sea Oats Northern Sea Oats are perennial, and form upright plants, with very attractive arching foliage,...
