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Purdue Hort Garden: Mothers Day 2022

As we continue invasive species awareness week, meet the Asian Bush Honeysuckle and learn how to control it from our @PurdueExtension forester Lenny Farlee in this Woodland Management Moment. youtu.be/8mp29-RQYnM

@lprokopy 🤣🤣🤣 No judgment here! While in quarantine, a plant disappeared from my office. I like to believe that a kind botanist rescued it.

The 2022 Indiana Horticultural Conference webinar series is starting soon. Register now. It's free! Visit indianahortconference.org for more information. @PurdueHortLA @SmallFarmPurdue @PurdueHortExt @PurdueSFarm

It's National Houseplant Appreciation Day, so we turned to the expert! @PurdueHomeHort shares watering, placement, repotting and pest control tips to help your indoor plants thrive. 🪴 ag.purdue.edu/stories/four-s…

The Purdue Rainscaping Education Program’s goal is to increase rainscaping in residential & public spaces. EMG, landscape professionals, & agency staff will learn how to promote community awareness & education for bioretention/rain garden planning, installation, & maintenance.

Spotted Lanternfly is now in Switzerland Co. Keep a lookout and report 866-NO-EXOTIC ag.purdue.edu/reportinvasive…

The family of Harrison Flint invites friends to a memorial open house between 1:30 and 3:30 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Lafayette, IN on Wednesday July 28, 2021. Harrison died in April at age 91. We look forward to seeing your familiar smiles and to reminisce.

We invite qualified candidates to apply for the Consumer Horticulture Extension Specialist at Purdue University. Internal candidates, apply: bit.ly/37mscGX External candidates, apply: bit.ly/3k2WrYl Questions? Contact John Orick orick@purdue.edu

The way that mistletoe’s evergreen leaves and white berries tightly hug the branches of the trees on which it grows probably inspired the plant’s association with romance. The botanical reason is less romantic: Mistletoe is a parasite. quantamagazine.org/the-mystery-of…

Check our our new Purdue Extension bulletin on Cover Crops in the Home Garden! mdc.itap.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_…

New program to learn more about garden and landscape plants. puext.in/GetGrowingInfo

The ASHS Consumer Horticulture and Master Gardener Professional Interest Group shows how to engage millennial "plant parents" using innovative social media, marketing, and public garden-inspired tactics In HortTechnology ow.ly/2CRM50CsASC

New to gardening or confused about the meaning of gardening terms? Check out this gardeners' glossary put together by Rosie Lerner, @PurdueHomeHort specialist. Also included is the December garden calendar with tips on how to care for your houseplants. ag.purdue.edu/stories/podcas…

Pokeweed is on the low end of the toxicity scale ag.purdue.edu/stories/podcas…

Despite the forecasted unseasonably warm temperatures for the next few days, cooler weather is on the way. Rosie Lerner, @PurdueHomeHort specialist, shares how to prepare your garden for winter.

Shining a light on why potatoes turn green ag.purdue.edu/stories/podcas…

Bees, butterflies like turtlehead flowers ag.purdue.edu/stories/podcas…

We are pleased to announce that Linda Prokopy (@lprokopy) will become the department head of @PurdueHortLA, effective January 1, 2021. She joined the @PurdueFNR faculty in 2003, and has served as co-director of @NresPurdue since 2017. ag.purdue.edu/stories/purdue…

Do you have leftover garden seed? Rosie Lerner, @PurdueHomeHort specialist, shares how to properly store seed for use in next year's garden. @PurdueHortExt ag.purdue.edu/stories/podcas…