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Blog Posts (17)

Champaign County Master Gardener's Plant Trial Program

Add some fireworks to your garden this Fourth of July

Add some fireworks to your garden this Fourth of July. Pink flowers of nodding onion.

Beyond hostas in your shade garden

Yellow flowers on green and purple leaves

Want continuous blooms in your yard?

Pineapple Sage

Pineapple sage is an interesting annual that is currently in full bloom, providing a rare splash of color late in the gardening season.

Zinnias

Zinnias are spectacular annuals that produce abundant blooms throughout the season.

Grow herb gardens for more than the kitchen

Flowering herbs provide ornamental beauty to the edge of this pollinator garden

Heirloom flowers provide fragrance, beauty, pollinator support

field of pink cosmos

Spring Garden Cleanup

Standing dead stems are important overwintering habitat that should not be removed from the garden until insects emerge later in spring.

Two garden tasks to do in January

Ordering seeds from garden catalogs

Fall Gardening Tasks

planting spring bulbs amongst fall perennials

French intensive gardens root well in Central Illinois

full season french intensive garden

How plants and pests begin preparing for fall

Take your butterfly garden to the next level

Watering tips for hot weather

Designing Around Specific Colors and Plants

nodding onion

News Releases (2)

Four Seasons Gardening Series will answer homeowners' common questions

The gardening methods you need to tell goodbye

Staff (1)

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Sarah Vogel

Horticulture and Natural Resources Educator