Miss Floribunda: Cautious composting
Dear Miss Floribunda, Last month you advised “Uber-Organic” that home compost is usually well-balanced for the vegetable garden. It would…
Nature Nearby: The fungus among us
BY FRED SEITZ — The extensive rain in the past few months has raised the visibility of one of the most adaptive,…
Miss Floribunda: Some plants can be put in a a cold frame
Dear Miss Floribunda, I bought quite a few packages of seeds at the Hyattsville Horticultural Society garden fair this month…
Miss Floribunda: Christmas Cactus concerns
Dear Miss Floribunda, Every December I buy a beautiful Christmas cactus and by the next December it is history. I…
Native Plant Sale becoming mainstay for area gardeners
BY SCARLETT SALEM — Just in time for spring gardening, the Hyattsville Elementary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) held their 6th…
Miss Floribunda: Clay troubles
Dear Miss Floribunda, I’ve lived and gardened in Hyattsville nearly three years now, and I feel like such a loser….
Nature Nearby: Spring rains open the witches’ umbrellas
The recent mini-deluges have helped “spring up” one of the woodland’s familiar leafy faces, the mayapple, also known as the…
Miss Floribunda: Horticulture society seed sale preview
Dear Miss Floribunda, I love to cook and am pretty good at it. To me the secret is good ingredients,…
Miss Floribunda: Dreaming of chrysanthemums in winter
Dear Miss Floribunda, It is autumn and the nurseries, supermarkets, and roadside stands are taunting me with flowering chrysanthemum plants…
Miss Floribunda: Identifying pretty, invasive plants
Dear Miss Floribunda, Of late you have been raising my consciousness about the dangers of certain invasive volunteer plants and…