Get your guide to solving plant problems! Download any of these print friendly fact sheets for a quick and easy guide that can help you navigate a variety of issues from selecting and planting trees to pests in the garden.
Pests and Diseases
- Reports on Plant Disease
- Pantry Pests
- Boxwood Blight
- Emerging Diseases in Illinois
- Laurel Wilt on Sassafras
- Downy Mildew of Grape
- Plant Growth Regulator Herbicide Injury
- Poison Hemlock
- Invasive species: Jumping worms, Spotted Lanternfly, Chaff flower
House Plants
Fruit and Vegetable Gardening
- When to Plant in Illinois
- Garden Tool Maintenance
- Fall Garden Checklist
- How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs in Container Gardens
- Soil health: Composting 101 English | Spanish, When and How to Take a Soil Test, Indoor Worm Composting, Cover Crops in the Home Garden
- Seeds: How to Save Seeds , Seed Viability and Germination, Pelleted Seed
- Pests and diseases: Cucurbit Pests, Blossom End Rot
- Herbs: Growing Parsley, Planting and Growing Garlic
- Vegetables: Cool Season Vegetables, How to Grow a Salsa Garden
- Harvesting: Harvest and Store Garden Vegetables, Donate Homegrown Produce to Food Pantries
Flowers, Grasses & Ornamentals
- How to Create a Sensory Garden
- Native Prairie Grasses
- Dividing Perennials
- Planting a Cut Flower Garden
- Pruning Hydrangeas
- Rose Rosette Virus
- Verticillium Wilt on Woody Ornamentals
- Bulbs: Growing Bulbs True False, Selecting and Planting Spring Bulbs
Pollinators
- Help Save Our Pollinators
- Building a Floral Highway
- Pollinator gardens: Pollinator Garden Tips, Illinois Pollinator Plants for the Garden, Spring Bloomers for Bees
- Pollinators: Top 10 Beneficial Insects in the Garden, Illinois Bees, Swallowtail Butterflies
Trees
- How to Hire a Tree Care Professional
- Tree and Shrub Planting Guide
- Dormant Season Pruning
- How to Identify Black Gum and Persimmon Trees
- Living Christmas Tree Guide
- Top 10 Illinois Tree Pests
- Tree selection: Small to Medium Ornamental Trees for Illinois, Selecting Trees to Plant in Illinois, Trees for Windbreaks
- Plant Clinic reports: Oak Problems, Deciduous Disease in Illinois, Conifer Disease in Illinois, Spruce Problems, Sudden Oak Death