The beech tree is down. For the last few years we have been watching as the tree declined, knowing one day it would have to be removed. That day has come and gone. Nothing is permanent in a …
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The talk around the Civic Garden Center these days is all about trees; it may have something to do with The Queen City Tree Revival. At the beginning of each new season I find myself wishing for more plants, including trees. …
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As a gardener, I have a wide range of feelings about insects. I go out of my way to attract certain insects to my vegetable garden, namely pollinators and insects that eat or parasitize garden pests. While some visitors to …
Read More »This morning’s rain, the big stuff, the blow-the-roof-off, turn-semi’s-over, strip-every-green-and-flowering-thing kind of rain is now in West Virginia and we just had a soft, leftover shower, the kind that doesn’t even show up on radar and the birds sing through. …
Read More »What to do when the chicory blooms? Know that summer has started, for sure — no more weirdly cold nights when you wish you hadn’t gone ahead and planted the most tender annuals. Plant Heavenly Blue Morning Glory seeds, along …
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When Civic Garden Center staff and volunteers think of the first weekend of May, our automatic first association is THE Plant Sale. It has been happening for over 60 years now and it is the big event for many Cincinnati …
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A week into Spring and the warnings of 8 inches of snow? For those of us who are itching to get into the garden and dig some dirt, this round of late winter/delayed Spring is a bit of a challenge. …
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“A garden offers, to those who accept it, a return to the touch-world of childhood.” – Allen Lacy in The Inviting Garden Sure, in the growing seasons, when gloveless hands work the soil, nestle fragile-rooted seedlings into warm soil, pick …
Read More »I had a kelly green mohair sweater when I was a kid, which, no doubt, made me look inflated, but I loved it. Once I outgrew fashion oblivion and the sweater, I have longed for the love of a sweater …
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The Civic Garden Center sells Fraser fir trees exclusively, because we have become convinced of their superior quality for cut Christmas trees. Wonderfully fragrant, Abies fraseri, or Fraser’s fir, tends to have many stout branches on which to hang ornaments. …
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