This is the time of year for earnest winter pruning ; Wellfield staff are actively engaged in moving through trees and shrubs to...

I received an email responding to a presentation I did recently, and I thought I would share the questions posed with you, dear (lucky)...

In my last post, I shared some of my observations from the Gardens and we defined “tree” and “shrub” . Now I want to share what I’m...

I love learning and sharing information with people who have an interest in gardening, as I continue my journey at the beautiful...

Gardeners often spend January and February pouring over seed catalogues dreaming, always dreaming. They turn the pages, suddenly halting...

“In these uncertain times” is a phrase you may have heard more often lately; as we all know, uncertainties make it hard to plan for the...

The average homeowner chases after the elusive “low maintenance, so I can watch more Netflix” landscape, and the residential landscape...

Hello everyone! It’s your friendly gardener on Main Street, coming at you with another wild and wacky gardening thought. Just for a...

Happy 2021! If you’ve visited the Gardens recently, you may have noticed a singular container arrangement at the south entrance to the...

One of the many rewarding parts about being a cactus grower is there is a type of cactus that can bloom in each season! Winter is no...

Someone emailed me asking for my opinion on some nasty looking roots in their landscape. Girdling roots may sound like a personal...

Hello there again! It is time for another weekly installment from your Main Street gardener; a time where I bedazzle your imagination and...

If you are a frequent skimmer of this blog, you know I like to occasionally like to highlight things I call Crimes Against Horticulture...

I received a bulletin a few weeks ago from Michigan State University announcing the first sighting of a new invasive insect threat, the...

Recently, I was asked a follow up question to my most excellent rose blog (I must say so myself), so in this installment of the Main...

Though the peak of fall color is passing in the Gardens and our Michiana area, I thought I would take time to highlight a group often...

This week’s blog entry from your hip, non-hipster main street gardener is a collection of thoughts and answers to questions I recently...

In this week’s installment of nasty but cool botany, let us chat about plant zombies. No, I am not referring to the popular game, Plants...

And now for this week’s installment in our continuing series on spooky plants (if you’ve missed any of our earlier blogs, check out the...

This week, we continue exploring spooky plants by taking a look at a plant with which we are all familiar: Parthenocissus quinquefolia ,...