Plant more daffodils than tulips if you want to keep critters from digging and munching bulbs in your flower beds. Plant them now for a spring display.
Earlier this spring, a friend had the opportunity to tour a perfume factory while on a Mediterranean tour. She followed the entire fragrant process from processing flower petals to extract precious oil to concocting blends for making perfumes. At the end of this heady experience, visitors co…
After last month’s column on pruning perennials, a reader emailed with questions about pruning definitions and my suggestions for pruning tools to have in the shed.
Masterwort is a rather ugly common name for what really is a beautiful perennial.
I’ve always thought the best place to celebrate spring is in a garden.
After a week of shrieking quads and hamstrings, my gardening muscles are finally stretched out. For a few days, I wondered if I’d be able to walk or bend normally again after hours spent weeding, mowing and trimming borders and beds.
Butterflies can’t read.
Now begins the waiting game — waiting for the fat buds on my lilac bushes to burst into sweet, fragrant bloom. English poet Stevie Smith wrote, “Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac,” and it’s probably the main reason we plant these woody bushes.
When I was a kid, riding in the backseat of our station wagon, my brother and I would sing “California, here we come, right back where we started from … ” incessantly until Mom threatened to turn the car around and go home. And we never headed to California. The trips were usually to visit g…
Like accessorizing the perfect black dress, every garden needs a little bling — something that shines or glows, or is a bit showy.
Peonies are amazingly long-lived herbaceous perennials. Some peonies can live 50 years or longer, which makes them not only heirloom but legacy plants.
Cabbage, bok choy and collards … although there isn’t much, if any, resemblance among these plants, they’re all part of the Brassica family. It is considered one of the most prolific genera of vegetables in the world, according to the National Garden Bureau.
In Victorian times, many women made wax flowers as a hobby. After melting white wax into sheets and adding pigment for color, they painstakingly separated flowers petal by petal, traced the shapes on paper and made patterns to create their wax flowers.
Photos from the annual Meskwaki Powwow at the Meskwaki Powwow grounds near Tama at the Meskwaki Settlement.
CHARLES CITY — A Charles City man has been arrested following his involvement in a deadly crash late last month.
Check out modern homes in new communities around Waterloo and Cedar Falls
Read through the obituaries published today in The Courier.
CLEAR LAKE -- Attendees who gathered Friday night for the first in-person Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom since 2019 didn’t exactly pack the house.
The rabbits of various ages had been abandoned and were living in "deplorable conditions," running loose inside the house with no food or water for several days, a Humane Society official said.
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has asked the state courts to allow her to implement a 2018 law banning most abortions. The law was permanently blocked by a judge in 2019 as unconstitutional. Reynolds previously said she planned to take the matter to court instead of calling a special session to hold a divisive abortion debate and vote just months before she and several other Republican leaders run for reelection. The court filing Thursday is just the first step in a legal battle that could take months to resolve and is likely to end up before the state Supreme Court again. The law would ban abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks of pregnancy.
DES MOINES — Abortion would be illegal in Iowa after six weeks of pregnancy — often before the woman knows she is pregnant — if Gov. Kim Reynolds’ request to the Iowa courts is granted.
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WATERLOO — A Waterloo couple has been arrested for allegedly taking thousands of dollars’ worth of items from a home improvement store.
WATERLOO — A Waterloo man has been arrested after allegedly attacking convenience store workers and breaking merchandise because he was carded.
WATERLOO — A Memphis, Tenn., man has been found guilty of opening fire inside a crowded convenience store in April.
WATERLOO — A man who was shot in the chest during a 2020 gunfight in Waterloo has been sentenced to prison on weapons charges.
CLEAR LAKE -- Attendees who gathered Friday night for the first in-person Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at the Surf Ballroom since 2019 didn’t exactly pack the house.
Also, Cindy Axne and Zach Nunn clash on abortion.
Also, Cindy Axne and Zach Nunn clash on abortion.
Finalists could be announced in early October and a second round of interviews would follow in mid-October, according to the city.