Wordpress Author Mums the Word Autumn is here! After spring, this is my favorite time of year. Hayrack rides, fall potlucks, the bounty of gardens spilling across the table, jelly making, and my family’s annual pumpkin carve party ... Sep 21, 2017
Wordpress Author Blooms For Butterflies It is late summer and butterflies are beginning their descent to more suitable wintering sites. Many butterflies move northward in the spring from overwintering sites and then the following generation... Sep 14, 2017
Wordpress Author What is With All the Butterflies?! Recently, here in Northeast Kansas we were seemingly swarmed by millions of butterflies. Along nearly every road and blacktop surface, butterflies swooped and landed and were struck down by passing ca... Aug 3, 2017
Wordpress Author Birds are for the Bugs! That first sweet bite of peach in the hot July sun, off of your own tree in your own yard, makes you wonder about the truly good things in life. For my family and I it was about a move 3 years ago to ... Jul 20, 2017
Wordpress Author Catalpas Blooming In Kansas All across the state of Kansas, catalpa trees are in full bloom. These trees are a marvel of color in the wooded areas, along railroads, and in towns. When the railroads were first being laid across t... May 25, 2017
Wordpress Author Cutting Garden Favorites for Mother's Day With Mother’s Day coming this weekend I started to think about the different flowers I could put into a floral display for my mother and my wife. My cutting garden is not ready yet, but I can easily f... May 11, 2017
Wordpress Author Hawthorns I have been working as a landscape maintenance professional now for more than 10 years and each year get more exciting. One thing that never changes is how my customers feel about their hawthorn trees... Apr 13, 2017
Wordpress Author Plants for Miniature Gardens Miniature gardens (often referred to as fairy gardens) are a very popular method of introducing gardening to those who do not have the space or time for large scale landscape, as well as helping to sp... Apr 6, 2017
Wordpress Author Time for early spring planting! As March 17 rolls around, here in northeast Kansas, people are getting excited about planting in their gardens and landscape. While the weather may be a little cold yet for planting flowers out, it is... Mar 16, 2017
Wordpress Author Rhizosphaera Needle Cast of Spruce Every year it amazes me how much information our brain can hold. The more landscapes I go to see, the more things I realize I have yet to learn. This past summer I started consulting in Atchison, KS a... Jan 26, 2017
Wordpress Author Kentucky Coffeetree Growing up in North Central Kansas, I developed a love for large, tough shade trees to give rest from the intense summer heat. Although originally a prairie, my grandparent’s land is dotted with trees... Jan 19, 2017
Wordpress Author Winter Blooms I asked my teenage daughter what she would want to read about if she were a gardener and her first response was: “What blooms in winter?” What does bloom in winter? In Kansas and areas north, very lit... Jan 5, 2017