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Colors and Shapes and Forms, OH MY! Ann Tice Interviews the MSU Trial Plants Manager
Tue, 02/07/2023 - 12:00
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Blog Posts
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Expect a higher price with a "new" label
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Love tree fruit, love the planet: Enjoy a fruiting plant for many years
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Anticipating the spring planting season
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Choose your garden tools to fit your needs
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Methods for identifying plants is a great learning experience
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Labeling is an Important feature of a plant collection
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Use Mother Nature to break seed dormancy
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Planting and Maintaining Perennial Mums
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Add some fireworks to your garden this Fourth of July
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Beyond hostas in your shade garden
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Designing from the ground up: Ground covers for your landscape
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Prune properly, your forsythia and lilac shrubs will thank you
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Garden worthy 'Plants of the Year'
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Add Agroforestry Plants to Your Garden
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Want continuous blooms in your yard?
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The winter garden needs planning too
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Deicing Salts and Plant Damage
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Common questions answered as we transition to winter
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Ravaging rodents and fall planted bulbs
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Take care of hostas going into winter
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Fall care for spring and summer bulbs
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How to plant flower bulbs for a colorful spring display
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Fall watering is important
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Northern Illinois dry conditions and why watering matters
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Plant stereotyping
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Iris for collecting and asparagus for eating
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Thank an ant for spreading your Dutchman's breeches
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Winter bloomers add a spot of cheer
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Adding more blooms to your garden invites more birds
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Grow herb gardens for more than the kitchen
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Perennial plant of the year: Calamint
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When should I divide my perennials
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Gardening and jumping worms in northern Illinois
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Spring Garden Cleanup
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How plants survive freezing temperatures
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Ordering seeds from garden catalogs
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Overwintering potted plants
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Late fall yard tasks - from mower to snowblower
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Fall Gardening Tasks
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Sedum is a reliable fall food source for foraging butterflies
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Daylilies
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Buttonbush
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The 'Annabelle' Hydrangea
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Daffodils
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Charles Darwin and Orchids
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Houseplants and Indoor Air Quality
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Climate Change and USDA Plant Hardiness Zones Part Three
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Holiday Cacti
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Fall Color in Native Grasses and Their Ornamental Uses
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The Monarch Butterfly
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Dividing Perennials in Spring
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Snow Crocus
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Orchids
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2018 Gardening Goals
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Fall Garden Cleanup and Wildlife
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Idea Garden Tropicals on the Move
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Mums
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A different fall-blooming beauty
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French intensive gardens root well in Central Illinois
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How plants and pests begin preparing for fall
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Divide and Conquer in Fall
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Pollinator Pockets
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Hostas
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Advanced butterfly gardening
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Favorite Perennials For the Sun
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Plant Phenology for Identification
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Top 5 early summer topics for gardeners
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Landscaping with native grasses
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Virginia Bluebells
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What is springing up?
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Designing Around Specific Colors and Plants
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Illinois has an Abundance of Milkweeds
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The 2020 Perennial Plant of the Year with Martha Smith
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How to Achieve Asparagus's Perpetual Harvest
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News Releases
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Four Seasons Gardening Series will answer homeowners' common questions
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Start your growing season with the annual Kendall County Master Gardener plant sale May 21
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Kendall Master Gardeners host annual plant sale May 21
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Kendall Master Gardeners host plant sale May 15
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Whiteside County Master Gardeners Presenting Mums The Word Workshop April 17
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Whiteside County Master Gardeners Host Demonstration Shade Garden Tour
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The gardening methods you need to tell goodbye
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Illinois Extension to Offer Get Growing Webinar Series
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Add interest by creating a moonlight garden
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Fall garden cleanup lays groundwork for a successful spring
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Select and plant spring-flowering bulbs now
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Plant native perennials in the fall for healthy spring growth
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Staff
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Christopher Enroth
Horticulture Educator
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Sarah Vogel
Horticulture and Natural Resources Educator
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