I took a sunny stroll today although the cold winds were still howling after a night of rain and heavy winds. There wasn’t much damage thankfully and there continues to …
Today was gloomy but quite mild in temperature (60 degrees F). It looks like rain this afternoon and through the evening. The garden continues to come alive although we haven’t …
It’s been exciting to be involved with the Iron County Horticulture Therapy Summit up in Hurley, WI for the past couple of days. I traveled north with Mike Maddox, UW …
Post by Pam Glogowski Our annual Spring Symposium, Edible Landscaping, will be held here at Rotary Botanical Gardens on Saturday, March 18, 2017 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We invite …
When I was at Reiman Gardens (Iowa State University, Ames, IA) last week, I could already smell fragrance out in the gardens. Recent warmth has started to awaken some of …
I spent a good portion of the week out in Iowa which also experienced this recent record breaking warming spell. The travel was all smooth sailing which you can’t always …
Post by Patrea Wilson Rotary Botanical Gardens’ heirloom collection is a specialty garden featured in 2016 and 2017. It presents over 100 varieties of plants that were cultivated in American …
The snowdrops (Galanthus sp.) seen above are the first spring blooms we’ve noted thus far. I saw them bud out last week and this photo is from this morning. This …
As I “GOOGLED” the term wheat celosias (Celosia spicata or Celosia argentea spicata) for some additional information for this blog, I saw my blog posting from February 9th, 2015 about …
Post by Janice Peterson I always encourage gardeners to try to use the scientific name for plants rather than the common name. There is good reason for this. A common …