By Karen Santelli

Greener Gardening is a new blog series designed to help you make your garden, lawn and landscape more beautiful and sustainable by sharing the expert knowledge of Phipps professionals and educators. When insects are feeding on...

By Karen Santelli

Greener Gardening is a new blog series designed to help you make your garden, lawn and landscape more beautiful and sustainable by sharing the expert knowledge of Phipps professionals and educators. Modifying pH levels in soil is...

By Charity Grimes Bauman

Timing can be criticall when starting seeds at home. Too early and you'll have overgrown and poorly nourished plants waiting to get outside. Too late, and you;ll miss valuable growing time. Use the calendar below to determine...

By Charity Grimes Bauman

It’s Seed Starting Time! It’s finally that time of year again- time to start seeds indoors!  Growing season is on its way, and indoor seed starting is the first chance of the year to start opening seed packets and...

By Kelliann Walsh, Phipps Discovery Education Specialist

The holidays are here, and winter flavors abound: cinnamon, ginger, chocolate and chai!  All are delicious and all the flavors come from plants!   Take the time to search out your favorite flavors.  Cinnamon is...

By Charity Grimes Bauman, Phipps Community Outreach Coordinator

Before your garden is done producing for the season, consider saving some seed!  Seed saving is an easy, free way to restock your seed collection for next year.  Saving your own seed saves money, and allows you to...