Cindy's Recipes and WritingsWhat’s Eating Your Yard and Garden? Now that spring is here, we can get a good look at our landscape and assess winter damage. Tunnels in the lawn, bark stripped from trees and shrubs, missing …
These Berries Have Gone to the Dogwood #GardenSense
If you’re thinking about planting an ornamental tree for wildlife, consider a Kousa Dogwood. This tree is native to Japan, Korea, China and Taiwan. Hardy to zone 5 and can take the summer heat. In …
A Day at the Indianapolis Zoo
Marlys @This and ThatA Day at the Indianapolis Zoo I love spending time at the zoo. It is so much fun being able to visit them and see all the animals and also learn something new about them. …
Top Reasons Not To Use Pesticides Garden Sense #DailyDishMagazine
Top Reasons Not To Use Pesticides Our gardens get plagued with pests all season long. Insects not only cause damage by eating leaves, fruits and roots but open wounds on plants allow disease to enter. …
I Can’t Bear It!
I Can’t Bear It Over the years I’ve taught many workshops on making and using compost. At the end of every compost workshop, I take questions from the audience. How to keep pests out of …
April Showers Bring May Lichens Garden Sense #DailyDishMagazine
You anxiously await the return of spring as a chance to survey winter’s damage to your yard and garden. While walking through your yard after a refreshing spring shower, you suddenly notice a mysterious green …
Berry Nice Winter Garden
Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night — Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished …