Gardeners Corner
Gardeners Corner is a quarterly newsletter from the Illinois Extension team of horticulture experts. Each issue highlights seasonal recommendations that will make your houseplants, landscape, or garden shine in any season.
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Gardeners Corner Summer 2024
In this issue
- Gardening for a hummingbird's travels
- Provide resources to pollinators in any space with container gardens
- To survive the summer heat, choose plants built for the sizzle
- Tips for getting landscape plants through summer
- Bring birds close to home by gardening for feathered friends
- Protect trees and their roots during construction projects
- Consider adding periodical cicadas to summer list of favorite ice cream toppings
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Gardeners Corner Spring 2024
In this issue
- The cicadas are coming! Periodical cicadas in Illinois in 2024
- Explore the 2024 All-America Selection flower and vegetable variety winners
- Spring into composting by reviving a compost pile after winter
- Discover added benefits to planting windbreaks
- Six replacement trees for invasive Callery pear
- Add a dash of herbs to spice up floral bouquets
- Recognizing heat-related warning signs for gardeners and landscapers
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Gardeners Corner Winter 2023-24
In this issue
- Bloom in the winter with gift of amaryllis bulb kit
- Protect your pets: Keep paws off overwintering indoor plants
- Cutting back branches leaves trees with healthier outlook
- Did you forget to water your plants? Try low-maintenance succulents
- Use weed clues to dig up environmental issues like fertility, soil compaction, moisture issues
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Gardeners Corner Fall 2023
In this issue
- Butterflies can eat to live, live to eat in a balanced garden
- Ideas for youth to explore and connect with nature
- Reap the benefits of intergenerational gardening
- Build drought-tolerant gardens this fall for next summer’s blooms
- Tips for extending the garden’s growing season
- Consider pollinators during fall garden cleanup
- Keep growing with herbs indoors this fall, winter
- Don’t dump Halloween pumpkins, donate or compost them
Gardeners Corner Summer 2023
- Go green with eco-friendly lawn care
- Reduce storm damage by looking for tree defects before bad weather strikes
- Care for perennial gardens with 3 proven pruning methods
- Elevate your expectations with raised bed gardening
- Want more from your garden? Plant a fall crop of cucumbers
- How to grow tropical ginger for at home spice
- Make flowers and memories last forever with drying for design
- Build privacy with plants for secret gardens
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Gardeners Corner Spring 2023
- Grow the best new flower and vegetable varieties with 2023 All-America Selection Winners
- Make the most of mulch by choosing from living, synthetic, inorganic, or organic
- Grow confidence when choosing seed packets for your garden
- Sustainable community gardens benefit local growers, ecosystems, and communities
- Plant trees for every season
- Plant top annuals of 2023 to create craveable container gardens
- Bugged by houseplant pests? Give carnivorous plants a try
- What’s in a name? The roots of fruit and vegetable names are long and intertwined
- Identify, avoid, and manage troublesome wild parsnip
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Gardeners Corner Winter 2022-23
- Protect trees from winter’s wrath with a few preventive steps
- Indoor gardening can brighten winter doldrums
- Burning local firewood this winter can save forests
- Give someone a green holiday season with the gift of plants
- Planning a new perennial garden? Plant for the whole garden ecosystem
- Fruit trees need an annual trim to bear best fruit
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