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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Firefly Petunias Light Up the Night
View As PDF By Dr. Matthew Lisy, UConn Adjunct Faculty The world of genetics has really had a tremendous impact on our lives. There is a lot of talk about GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, in the news. Labels even alert us to the presence of these crops in our foods. I wanted to […]
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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