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This week is the first week of spring, yeah! I celebrated spring’s arrival by spending hours fertilizing emerging spring bulbs. If you...

I want to start a neighborhood, heck a citywide, watch for crime in this town. No, not the usual kind like stabbing, robbery, murder,...

Yes it is cold again. Yes, it is technically still winter, but for Wellfield’s Horticulture and Facilities department, spring has sprung....

Does anyone need a drink? We have plenty of surface water for you at Wellfield if you want to stop in for a visit . Wellfield Botanic...

Hey all. Your fabulous hip, non-hipster gardener is back with more sweet, fascinating, geeked out garden talk. You ready for another...

Before you bemoan the dumping we received last weekend – how much there was to clear, how deep it was – consider some of the benefits to...

I am on a botany kick lately, so if you, my dear reader, cannot handle the plant nerdiness, check back next week. But I caution you –...

Someone asked me last evening if there were any new and exciting plants I happened to be jiving over; ones that may be coming to a public...

This time of year, as we go through the drama of snow falling-snow melting-media outlets going through meltdown over the next big winter...

How doest thou sayest “Clematis” or “Hemerocallis?” Doest thou even careth? Probably not, but for you plant nerds and...

Many wonder what on earth I do in the winter time. I smile when people say, “Oh, this must be your down time.” I may not be in the midst...

So this post is really directed toward my wife. We go through the same argument – I mean discussion – every Christmas season. She makes...

A key principle of permaculture is valuing renewable resources, and producing no waste. Often the best resources are those considered a...

Last week we discussed the what and why of herbaceous fall cutbacks in an effort to tidy up the flower bed. This week, let us start a two...

This week, we experienced the first frost of Autumn 2017 at Wellfield Botanic Gardens. For us, this means fall bed clean-up, and all that...

A warm fall means warm fall soil. Warm fall soil means some potentially panicked individuals. Weather like we are experiencing may trick...

Last week, we removed our cannas from flower beds where we are now planting tulips and have stored them for the winter. As I was doing a...

The last step in Wellfield’s fall turf management program is the application of compost tea to turf and flower beds. If you are...

Last Friday, we discussed the steps to seeding those bare lawn patches that, from your front window, just make you itch. Since you...

In the previous turf practices installments, we discussed core aeration and spreading compost on your lawn. The next step we take here...