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.
The Waterloo Community Foundation will hear from Dementia Friendly Cedar Valley and Northeast Iowa Area Agency on Aging at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5.
Is our employment picture getting better or worse? See recent changes in local jobs, unemployment, earnings and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.
The community is invited to join FCC to tie ribbons in Lincoln Park and throughout Waterloo at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 1.
The public reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. March 29 at the Public Safety Building, 4600 S. Main St.
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a pair of laws restricting the bathrooms transgender students can use and banning gender-affirming medical care amid a flood of legislation nationwide targeting the trans community. Doctors will have six months to cease prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. And transgender students will be barred from using public school restrooms that align with their gender identity. Students will need parental consent for special accommodations like using a faculty or single-occupancy restroom. Iowa LGBTQ advocacy groups, civil rights organizations and the state’s teachers’ union have condemned both laws.
DES MOINES — Iowa House Republicans proposed spending $8.58 billion in the upcoming budget year, an increase of about 4.5% from the current year, House Speaker Pat Grassley said Thursday.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, announced last week he was taking the step to separate from the Electronic Registration Information Center.
A man has pleaded guilty to reduced charges in the fatal shooting of his ex-girlfriend and another man during a crowded birthday party at an Iowa nightclub where he was working security. Timothy Rush agreed this week in a motion to a deal in which he pleaded guilty to two charges of involuntary manslaughter. KWWL-TV reports that a judge accepted the plea deal Thursday. Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in the April 10 shooting in Cedar Rapids. Rush initially was charged with two counts of second degree murder for two of the deaths. A second suspect was sentenced last year to life in prison for killing the third victim.
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A Clemont woman has been charged for allegedly mishandling money when she was the city clerk for Elgin.
Police have filed murder charges in a 2020 Waterloo nightclub shootout that left two people dead.
Trial has been set for a Hudson man who has pleaded not guilty to allegations he harmed his 3-month-old daughter in 2022.
A former Cedar Falls resident is one of two administrators who were shot on Wednesday morning at a Denver, Colorado high school after a handgun was found on a student.
DES MOINES — Iowa House Republicans proposed spending $8.58 billion in the upcoming budget year, an increase of about 4.5% from the current year, House Speaker Pat Grassley said Thursday.
Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, a Republican, announced last week he was taking the step to separate from the Electronic Registration Information Center.
It’s at least the second time in four months the state has failed to impose the minimum fine against an Iowa care facility implicated in the death of a resident.
Using mobile devices while driving a vehicle would be illegal except when using hands-free modes. The Senate also passed a bill to change SNAP and Medicaid eligibility.