Planting Bulbs for Spring Blooming By Lori Bowling (retired) University of Kentucky Extension Agent Now is the time to be ordering those spring flowering bulbs. Many garden centers will have a good selection of common spring bulbs such as tulips, daffodils, hyacinth and crocus, etc. If you are looking for something unusual or a specific color of bloom your best option would be to order from a mail order garden center such as Breck’s, Holland Bulb Farms, or K. van Bourgon

Garden Gossip With Lori Bowling (Retired) University of Kentucky Extension Agent Leaf Scorch on Landscape Plants The Ashland Beacon As the summer months move toward fall, some of your landscape trees, shrubs, and perennials may start to show browning along their leaf edges, as if they have been scorched by the heat of a fire. This condition is known as leaf scorch, and while it is not an infectious disease, it can cause your landscape to look unhealthy. We usually see this

Growing Greenup Pottery classes, like in Ghost? Anne Stephens The Ashland Beacon Are you curious about pottery? Does it make you think of a movie scene where a ghost visited someone at a pottery wheel? (haha – yes, that movie from 1990) Have you ever wanted to try throwing clay on a wheel or hand building with a quality clay to be glazed and fired? Do you know that Greenup County has a community teaching studio? Merging Rivers Pottery opened almost a year ago and is cur

In The Living Years Loren Hardin The Ashland Beacon This is part one of a series about Michael who was sixty years old when he enrolled in outpatient hospice services with end stage cirrhosis of the liver. Michael was an electrician by trade, and a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Michael is one of seven children and explained, “I’m two minutes older than my twin sister, Michelle, but she’s the one who taught me to always say