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Spring flowering bulbs: Planting now to ensure color in your spring garden
Published on November 3, 2022
Plan and plant now for the promise of life after Michigan’s long cold winter and vibrant colors that welcome the spring season. -
Drive-by botany: Orange daylily and white sweet-clover
Published on July 19, 2022
Profiles of common Michigan roadside flora in early July 2022. -
Drive-by botany: Elderberry and ox-eye daisy
Published on July 12, 2022
Profiles of common Michigan roadside flora in late June 2022. -
Where can you ask gardening questions?
Published on June 23, 2022
From food safety to insect identification, Ask Extension is an online tool that allows Michigan State University experts answer the public’s questions. -
Drive-by botany: Black locust and multiflora rose
Published on June 21, 2022
Profiles of common Michigan roadside flora in early June 2022. -
Drive-by botany: Purple dead-nettle and Morrow’s honeysuckle
Published on May 24, 2022
Profiles of common Michigan roadside flora in mid-May 2022. -
Best annual and perennial varieties according to the 2021 Michigan Plant Trials
Published on April 5, 2022
MSU and each cooperating firm in the Michigan Garden Plant Tour trialed varieties throughout last summer and chose their best-of-the-best and visitor favorites from the 2021 trials. -
Is it too late to plant bulbs?
Published on November 9, 2021
Three tips for the procrastinating fall gardener. -
Drive-by botany: Frost aster and evening primrose
Published on September 27, 2021
Profiles of common Michigan roadside flora in mid-September 2021. -
Michigan insects in the garden - Season 2 Week 11: Cantharidae
Published on September 2, 2021
Common flower-visiting beetles that are often mistaken for bees.