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Callery pear: Ornamental favorite or invasive menace? A row of callery pear trees full of white blossoms
Read article: Callery pear: Ornamental favorite or invasive menace?
Callery pear: Ornamental favorite or invasive menace?
Callery pear (Pyrus calleryana), better known as ‘Bradford’ pear, has been blooming across Illinois. Over the years, it has been a popular...
close up of a weed in a landscape bed
Read article: Knowing your weeds can help you grow healthier plants
Knowing your weeds can help you grow healthier plants
Weeds may be unwanted, but armed with the right information they can be very helpful tools to improving your garden. There are some weeds that are...
solarization trial against bindweed
Read article: Central Illinois Update: Unity site tests soil solarization against bindweed
Central Illinois Update: Unity site tests soil solarization against bindweed
We are testing soil solarization as an effective management strategy for bindweed, a nasty perennial weed, at our Unity site. We know soil...
field of smooth brome with seed heads
Read article: Identifying Smooth Brome, a non-native grass
Identifying Smooth Brome, a non-native grass
Last week I attended the North American Prairie Conference in Altoona, Iowa. Shoutout to the blog readers I met there! As is typical for me, on my...

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Invasive and Nuisance Plants Workshop Offered in Freeport
FREEPORT, Ill-----Fall can be a suitable time to address some landscape plant issues. Woody plants and other perennials can best be managed during the fall. If you have noticed some plant types are taking over your landscape, this is the time to exercise some control for a better next year,...
Aaron Hager standing in soybean field surrounded by the weed waterhemp
Tank-mixing herbicides may not be enough to avoid herbicide resistance
URBANA, Ill. — Eight years ago, University of Illinois and USDA-ARS scientists turned weed control on its head. More and more herbicide resistant weeds were popping up, and the pest plants were getting harder to kill. It was clear farmers could no longer rely on the same chemicals year after...