New Plantings, Veggie Maintenance, Hummingbird Flowers & Other June News
View as a PDF ” It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace, Betsy-Tacy and Tib Establishing New Plantings Many gardeners have done a majority of their seasonal work by the start of June. While spring is the […]
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Remove Those Suckers!
View As PDF Remove Those Suckers! By Dawn Pettinelli, UConn Home & Garden Education Center About now the gardens should be planted, and it is time to turn our attention to the trees and shrubs on the property. New growth is almost fully expanded and pruning of spring flowering shrubs can commence. When out there […]
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Uconnladybug's Blog
- I Used to Like Jack in the Pulpits! June 21, 2024One of the most fascinating plants to me (many moons ago) as a young naturalist was Jack in the Pulpit. The plant is quite unique because of its unusual flower, its pollination strategy and its unpalatability to herbivores. The 1- to 3-foot-tall and wide plants send up stems bearing trifoliate leaves. They are found in […]uconnladybug
- Intriguing Oddities: Coleus June 21, 2024In 2022, while I was trying to finish up my chemistry degree, I was trying to brainstorm ideas for a chromatography project and had settled on the idea of separating out and quantifying chlorophylls in hostas. I hopped in my car and drove down to the local garden center, planning to purchase some hostas I […]uconnladybug