Gardening Tips On Wbbm Newsradio

How to enhance the beauty of a bonsai tree.

Before reaching for a pesticide to get rid of insects in the garden, give Mother Nature a chance.   

In any garden, foliage color is an important element. Flowers come and go, but leaves stay the season. 

There are two main types of parsley, and it is useful and pretty.

Tips for taking care of cactus and succulents.

How to plant, harvest, and store garlic.

Controlling your plants: when rains boost vegetable growth, they can sprawl, causing more disease.

By watering wisely, you help to conserve the most precious resource on our planet, while also raising a healthy and productive garden. .

Choosing ornamental plants for home landscapes. Plants which are grown for decorative purposes in gardens.

A summer container garden can be as simple as a window box overflowing with annuals, or a tub filled with tomatoes.

Theme gardens can reflect a passion or hobby and creating a theme garden is just plain fun.   

There is a type of garden bed, with a big mission. We call it a pollinator strip and it’s meant to attract insects so they can pollinate the food plants growing in a vegetable garden.

Lovely lilacs are in bloom- here’s how to cut them and keep them blooming inside your home.  

There are a number of things you can do to get your lawn off to a good start in the spring.

Welcome spring with a colorful spring container garden. After a long winter, it’s nice to have containers full of lush spring plants.  

Hellebores are special garden plants because they bloom when little else is in flower.

Early spring is time to plant the most frost tolerant vegetables into the garden- it’s all about timing.

Composting recycles lawn and kitchen waste while creating a rich soil amendment for the garden. Layering homemade compost on garden beds is the easiest way to build fertility in your soil.

Phenology is the study of the timing of biological events that reoccur every year, think of it as nature’s calendar.

Potted shamrocks are fun seasonal houseplants found in stores around St. Patrick’s Day.