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What makes a Botanic or Botanical Garden different from any other garden or park? When you walk through a botanic garden, it may seem...

With spring on the horizon, flowers are beginning to bloom at Wellfield. One of the first blooms of the growing season is the flower of...

With the growing season behind us, we often use the winter to reflect and plan for the next year. Planning involves annual bed design,...

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...

Last week we discussed how Wellfield Botanic Gardens aerates the turf. Once little gaping holes are opened through the blades of grass,...

Cooler air and warmer soil temperatures make late summer an excellent time to implement a number of organic turf practices, so September...

When you visit Wellfield Botanic Gardens, you may notice little to no support for flopping herbaceous plants is utilized. Wellfield...

I see it every year – an enterprising weekend garden warrior steps outside, looks at some vigorously growing shrubs, and heads for the...

Gardening methods, and the rationale behind the methods, are passed on from person to person, but they are not always grounded in the...

Today is an exciting day here at Wellfield Botanic Gardens. The last and largest shipment of annuals has arrived! Next week we embark on...

It is inevitable; like the sun rising in the east. Each year about this time, audible gasps of shock and horror are heard around the...

The onset of warmer weather is bringing out the first wave of perennially pesky garden insects. Two we watch for this time of year are...

Every spring, there are two groups of plants I get more questions about than any other: People are concerned about how to take care of...

I receive questions every year concerning how Wellfield staff control our population of Branta canadensis, or Canada goose, so I thought...

Every spring as I drive about Elkhart County, I cringe upon seeing the yearly attempt to cut back ornamental grass clumps. Believe it or...

Forty degrees Fahrenheit seems an important yard and garden threshold, and with air temperatures set to trend upwards again this week,...

What we do to one portion of our yard affects the many other relationships in the system. If we immediately sprayed our sunflowers at the...

In part one of this topic we considered our seed sources. Does the supplier operate ethically? How and where is the seed produced? What...