Early this week I finally spotted hummingbird activity in my yard. Once at the feeder and another time at a planter with fuchsia flowers. Hummingbirds usually show up around the first of May in my yard, but this year they seem to be two weeks late.

I needed a new lawn mower this year and ended up with a cordless electric self-propelled mower. I decided buy an electric mower after hearing Master Gardener Laurie Proctor talk about how much pollution one mower produces.

Michelle Davies captured this image of a Blue Clipper butterfly Tuesday at the Botanical Conservatory in Fort Wayne.

Rosa Salter Rodriguez has a great story in today's Journal Gazette about getting little ones involved -- and hooked -- on gardening.

Ricky Kemery, Purdue Horticulture Extension educator for Allen County and a Journal Gazette garden columnist, is offering a seminar on growing small fruit.

My pear trees are blossoming for the first time since I planted them two years ago. I found two small trees that were sort of flat to begin with and have been training and pruning them grow espalier on the backside of my home.

Every year I vow to keep it simple in the vegetable garden. My idea of gardening is to check out how it is doing in the morning while drinking my cup tea and that's it.

Every year my Baltimore orioles return on the first of May. I put out my oriole and hummingbird feeders mid-April just in case they arrived earlier.

The recent warm weather has set off a burst of color in the woods. Check out the photos.

Repotting is an import process in growing your own vegetable plants. I always plant the thin stem way down into the dirt leaving the foliage just peaking out.

I haven't seen a squirrel at my bird feeder for a whole week. I usually see one of the four resident squirrels hourly at the feeders.

The few 60 degree days, that we seem to have every once in a while, is a good time to start hardening off your vegetable plants. Hardening is needed to acclimate your plants to the great outdoors after they have been cuddled and nurtured in a perfect indoor environment.

"The public should call 311 to report a possible violation where weeds or grass are at least nine inches tall."

Experts say that Indiana could have a bumper crop of mosquitoes this year. You know how last year was so hot and dry? Well, apparently the little bloodsuckers' eggs were just waiting for a good, soaking rain to create lots of standing water.