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Well, it is your hip, non-hipster gardener, back with his dry sense of humor, ready to chat it up about another timely topic, the...

If you have not visited Wellfield in the past couple of weeks, you have missed the flurry of activity occurring in our Japanese-themed...

Someone approached me last week with a question regarding some fuzzy looking growths on the leaves of the shingle oak (Quercus...

Recently, I was harvesting vegetables with some volunteers, and we happened to be training cucumber to climb some supports. I began to...

What is on the mind of this hip, non-hipsta’ gardener this week? How about eastern tent caterpillars, fall webworms and bagworms . This...

Here at Wellfield, we are knee-deep in Taste of the Gardens prep. So, we thought we’d re-post a favorite blog from last summer – Josh’s...

While sitting in the Children’s Garden’s fabulous new tree house enjoying a recent mild summer morning, I reflected on the fact it was...

I was recently sent this questioning email… Dear Josh, I have been growing roses for some time but recently have not had success in...

This past weekend, I planted my last round of vegetables for this summer vegetable growing season. I then came inside and stumbled across...

No, this is not an endorsement for certain recreational activities, but rather a little encouragement as the dog days of summer  (which...

People have been noticing a tree in the Spring Garden on the north side of the Gardens with large leaves and unusual fruit. The biggest...

Recently, I followed in the footsteps of a long standing tradition: I installed pea sticks. Pea sticks are really what they sound like;...

The Island Garden , our Japanese-style garden located at the west side of Wellfield Botanic Gardens, will open late this year. A little...

A volunteer asked me this past week how best to deal with or transplant a large shrub which is outgrowing its space. It took me back to a...

This past winter, though mild in many respects, saw some bitterly cold periods, followed by a very slow spring warm up. This same pattern...

Recently, Wellfield staff were invited, as members of the local chapter of Indiana Native Plant Society , to rescue some native woodland...

There are many things I love about flowering crabs ; from how sculpted they look in winter, with fun to prune forms with persistent...

Recently, I built another raised bed for my personal gardening passion: vegetables. I combined two different growing methods, (...

Last time , we discussed the first step in a well done mulching job. I say well done because I have seen some pretty bad commercial...

A friend of the gardens texted me pictures last week (see gallery below) of a damaged magnolia in their front yard and asked what to do...