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Hydrangeas can be exasperating. What kind do you have? How do you prune it? And does the way you prune it change depending on what kind you have?

But hydrangeas are lovely when well cared for. And, fortunately, Lake County Master Gardener Carol Powers has the expertise to demystify this lovely flora.

You can visit our YouTube channel for more gardening and horticulture programs.

Two more tips for any gardeners out there:

1. Did you know that you can get free veggie, flower, and herb seeds from our Seed Library? Check out our collection  the next time you visit our Main Branch. Borrow up to 15 packets of seeds per season.
2. You should also check out the special collection from Holden Forests & Gardens’ Corning Library available at our Main Branch. In addition to a gorgeous arboretum in Kirtland, Holden also has a spectacular collection of gardening, horticulture, environmental and botany books at Corning Library within its arboretum. Dozens of Corning Library’s books are now available to borrow at our Main Branch. Thanks to a partnership between libraries, you can use your cards to check out books from this special collection. Our typical lending rules apply.

James A. Willis — author of Weird Ohio, Ohio’s Historic Haunts, and more tomes highlighting the strange nearby — shares some of his favorite Ohio oddities including:

• a homemade roller coaster in Pataskala, Ohio
• gum-encrusted restaurant in Greenville
• hot dog buns signed celebrities in Toledo

He also discusses what being a Paranormal Researcher entails, and why ghost-hunting shows sometimes frustrate him.

For more of the strange, local, and locally strange:

• William G Krejci discusses Ghosts & Legends of Northern Ohio
• D.M. Pulley on her favorite literary haunted houses
• Dan Chaon talks about what haunts him

Learn a language in your free time and without paying for expensive software with Mango Languages, a new database available through Mentor Public Library.

Mango uses an adaptive algorithm to provide a personalized language-learning experience. It can empower you to communicate with confidence when experiencing a new language and culture.

Mango offers online instruction in more than 70 languages, including Spanish, French, Japanese, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese (both Mandarin and Cantonese), Russian, Arabic, and Hindi.

Mango Languages is free to use with a card from any public library in Ohio.

To start learning, visit our Databases page and select Mango Languages. You’ll need an email address to create an account. Once you do, you can practice the language of your choice online or using the Mango Languages app. The app is available from the Google Play and Apple store.