Let’s start at the beginning of Julie Buttigieg’s journey in horticulture. She attended Michigan State University where she studied floriculture. From there she landed a job at Weber Brothers Greenhouses, where she worked until it closed when I-696 was built. Originally from Dearborn, her mom...
Experts used to say the number of ash trees lost in Michigan was tens of millions. Now they say hundreds of millions, according to Deb McCullough, a professor in Michigan State University’s entomology and forestry departments. Still, there’s hope for the ash’s survival. “In a nutshell,...
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In fact, degree days may not be the only determinant of a slow starter’s emergence from winter rest. It could be that honest despair is a tonic to them, for they almost always pop up the day after a gardener has given up all hope, pouring his or her sense of loss down on that g...