An advanced master gardener specializing in ornamental plants, Janet Macunovich of Waterford answers your gardening questions. Gardening by Nancy Szerlag Archive of columns Nancy Szerlag is a master gardener and Metro Detroit free-lance writer. Her weekly column offers advice for growing plants outdoors or indoors. Landscaping Let the lawn games begin Americans love their lawns, and, by extension, their lawn mowers. Here's the dirt on all those new soilless 'designer' potting mixes It will be a few weeks before we begin shopping for gardening plants, but now is the time to stock up on the other necessities, such as potting soil.
Nothing complements a garden more than an old-fashioned arbor.
Gardening Livonia mall blooms with orchids Orchid oglers will have a field day at the annual Palm Sunday Orchid Show on Saturday and Sunday at Laurel Park Place Mall, Six Mile and Haggerty, in Livonia. My house has overgrown yews in the front yard. Splashy Designs will make a splash at the show Michigan is surrounded by the Great Lakes, but that doesn't mean homeowners can't have a pond, waterfall or stream in their own back yard. Now is the time of year to add a flowering tree or shrub to your landscape. Thinking that the soil must be good, as I paid a lot of money for it, I did little to fertilize.