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Blog Posts (16)

Beyond hostas in your shade garden

Yellow flowers on green and purple leaves
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Helpful tips for creating a successful container garden

Helpful tips for creating a successful container garden. Pots with yellow, purple and pink flowers.
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Add some color to your winter landscape by growing holly

Add some color to your winter landscape by growing holly. Red holly berries and green holly leaves.
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Ravaging Rodents and Fall Planted Bulbs

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Anticipating the First Fall Frost in the Garden - October 2021

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Why do my mums always die? How to grow and care for fall mums in your garden

Why do my mums always die? How to grow and care for fall mums in your garden. Yellow, white, orange and pink mum flowers.
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How to divide and plant bearded iris

How to divide and plant bearded iris. person digging a bearded iris clump
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Plant Stereotyping - July 2021

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Adding purple shade trees to your landscape

‘Forest Pansy’ is a cultivar of our native redbud that offers unique purple foliage.
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A certain air around Callery Pear

Callery Pear on forest edge - Photo by Chris Evans, University of Illinois Extension
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Plant cool-season annuals now!

cool season blooms - photo by Terrance Raper on Unsplash
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Edibles or ornamentals? Container trends for 2021

growing crops in bags
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New plants for a new year - try growing something new in 2021

2021 All-American Selections winners
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Overwintering potted plants

pots with dormant plants covered in snow clustered together on a porch
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More spooky and scary plants

dark purple spathe of Dragon arum
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They’re not just in spring: Fall blooming bulbs

Pink, purple, and yellow blooms of fall blooming bulbs. Autumn crocus, Crocus speciosus, Autumn crocus, Colchicum autumnale, Hardy cyclamen, Cyclamen hederifolium, and Saffron crocus, Crocus sativus
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News Releases (5)

7 ways to reduce your lawn's dependence on chemicals, water, and mowing

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Four Seasons Gardening Series will answer homeowners' common questions

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This Autumn, Fill Your Heart with Gratitude and Your Home with the Scent of Holiday Spices

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Turfgrass, ornamentals pesticide applicator certification open online

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Become a U of I Extension Master Gardener

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Staff (2)

Christopher Enroth

Christopher Enroth

Horticulture Educator

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Richard Hentschel

Richard Hentschel

Horticulture Educator

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