Black Walnut & Juglone If you are a plant that must compete with other plants for the limited resources of light, moisture, and nutrients, how do you give yourself the upper hand? [...]
2022 PPA Perennial Plant of the Year – Little Bluestem & cultivars The Perennial Plant Association, a professional association composed of growers, garden retailers, landscape designers, and horticultural educators, has selected [...]
Prairie Moon – Native Wildflower Seeds Prairie Moon’s seeds come from their ever-expanding production fields and from a network of more than 70 seed producers located throughout the Midwest. All of [...]
Save Your Plants! Build Good Watering Habits Now Don’t forget to water your plants! Proper watering of a newly installed plant is critical to its establishment and future growth. Long story short – never [...]
In this article, I discuss several excellent, slightly taller shade groundcover plants that will also effectively cover ground in a shady area where you can accommodate a bit more height. In an earlier article, [...]
Sensory Garden We experience the world around us through all five of our senses: Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, and Scent. The goal of a sensory garden is to be inclusive of many [...]
Gardeners may know a plant by a variety of names, but many don't know what's in a plant's name. The most familiar to many gardeners is probably the “common name”. This is the everyday [...]
Salt tolerant plants are popular in Wisconsin because during our often frigid and icy winters, many people use de-icing salt materials on walkways and driveways. Our highways and roadways are also often over-salted during [...]
Fall Cleanup vs. Spring Cleanup We get a lot of calls from clients in the autumn, asking when/whether they should cut back their perennial plants. While there is no clear-cut answer to that [...]
Habitat loss is the single greatest cause of decline in populations of native birds. Replicating nature by using native plants for birds in our home gardens will go a long way towards creating sanctuaries [...]
September is the time of year when ornamental grasses truly makes an impact in the landscape. Many have showy plumes of airy seedheads that move gracefully in the breeze and offer winter interest even [...]
