Toledo Botanical Garden

Garden thoughts from the notebooks of our professional horticulturists...

Easy care tips for healthy house plants.

Learn the benefits of and how to make compost tea.

There's a right and wrong way to pruning large branches! Learn more!

Pizza Garden?! Learn how to design a theme garden that's good enough to eat!

Container Gardening (added 3/3/10)
The Dynamic Dozen: Unconventional Plant Selections for Your Container Gardens

What exactly is this plant I got at the 2010 Seed Swap?!

Looking for unique combinations for your 2010 container garden? Then check out this article!

Creating Hypertuffa Containers (added 3/17/2010)
Hypertuffa containers allow you to create a container with the look of concrete or natural stone.

You've learned how to make a hypertuffa container, now how do you take care of it?!

The American Hazelnut has started to bloom here at the Garden!

What's Blooming Today? (added 3/30/10)
The Japanese Pieris (Pieris japonica), or Andromeda plant, is waking up for Spring!

We planted 10,000 bulbs last year, which are now starting to bloom!

Want to add variety to your edible garden? Watch this video!

Learn all about peonies and iris from how to care for them to when they bloom!

What are the benefits of crop rotation? Read this article and see!