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Want continuous blooms in your yard?

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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.
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Zinnias

Zinnias are spectacular annuals that produce abundant blooms throughout the season.
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Grow herb gardens for more than the kitchen

Flowering herbs provide ornamental beauty to the edge of this pollinator garden
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Heirloom flowers provide fragrance, beauty, pollinator support

field of pink cosmos
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Spring Garden Cleanup

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

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Ordering seeds from garden catalogs

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Fall Gardening Tasks

planting spring bulbs amongst fall perennials
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French intensive gardens root well in Central Illinois

full season french intensive garden
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How plants and pests begin preparing for fall

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Take your butterfly garden to the next level

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Watering tips for hot weather

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Designing Around Specific Colors and Plants

nodding onion
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The gardening methods you need to tell goodbye

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Richard Hentschel

Horticulture Educator

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Sarah Vogel

Horticulture and Natural Resources Educator

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