Embrace growing during the snowy season.
As growing seasons shift, register for upcoming sessions of the popular Four Seasons Gardening webinar series. Two new sessions offer ways to build creativity with nature-inspired art made from fresh willow, as well as tips for spring pruning of young shade trees.
The series focuses on home gardening, environmental stewardship, and backyard food production. Monthly webinars begin at 1:30 p.m. on select Tuesdays and are free to attend. Registration is required. Each session lasts approximately an hour, including time for questions.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate, please contact series coordinators Nancy Kreith at kreith@illinois.edu, Gemini Bhalsod at gbhalsod@illinois.edu, or Andrew Holsinger at aholsing@illinois.edu. Early requests are strongly encouraged to allow sufficient time for meeting access needs.
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Winter 2026 Sessions
Creating Simply Lovely Nature Art | Feb. 10
Willow, you be my valentine? Create a nature-inspired living heart craft with freshly cut willow. Learn how to add a touch of rustic romance to bouquets that showcase flowers in the sweetest way possible.
Presenters: Chris Lueking, horticulture educator, Illinois Extension
Pruning Young Shade Trees | March 3
Young shade trees face a variety of challenges in the landscape, resulting in surprisingly low survival rates for many of these plants. While planting practices and follow-up care are major factors in the mortality of younger trees, canopy failure from poor branch structure is a bigger risk for trees that make it beyond establishment.
Proper pruning early in a tree’s life can drastically reduce the risk of canopy failure or hazard development from structurally unsound limbs later in life. Learn more about the issues young trees face and how early pruning can set them up for a lifetime of healthy canopy structure.
Presenter: Ryan Pankau, horticulture educator, Illinois Extension
Information whenever you need it!
Every program is recorded and available to watch on the Illinois Extension Horticulture YouTube channel. Videos are available about two weeks after the live program.