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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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Where Will You Garden? | Growing Great Vegetables
Tue, 02/28/2023 - 12:00
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Seed and Plant Choices | Growing Great Vegetables
Tue, 03/07/2023 - 12:00
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Tricky Pollinator Questions and Answers | Everyday Environment
Thu, 03/09/2023 - 12:00
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Vermilion County Master Gardeners 2023 Garden Day Workshop
Sat, 03/11/2023 - 12:00
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Cool Season Vegetables | Growing Great Vegetables
Tue, 03/14/2023 - 12:00
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Warm Season Vegetables | Growing Great Vegetables
Tue, 03/21/2023 - 12:00
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Insects and Diseases | Growing Great Vegetables
Tue, 03/28/2023 - 12:00
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April in Paris Gardening Seminar 2023
Thu, 04/13/2023 - 12:00
Betty Jane's Kitchen
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Blog Posts
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Holly: A native holiday decoration
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Native Perennials with Winter Interest
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What Happened to my Dwarf Spruce Tree?
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Fall Color from Conifers
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Colorful fall trees and shrubs in the Central Illinois landscape
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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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Planting and Maintaining Perennial Mums
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Attracting wildlife with native plants
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Stormwater woes, and how rain gardens can help
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Identifying River Oats
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Sedges for the Landscape
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False Indigo - A Native Shrub for the Home Landscape
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Tips for a creating a successful windbreak
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Native hydrangea trial evaluates pollinator value and landscape attributes
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Designing from the ground up: Ground covers for your landscape
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The should’s and should not’s of landscaping
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Vegetable Gardening with Raised Beds
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New Research Assesses the Value of Urban Pollinator Gardens
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The winter garden needs planning too
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Deicing Salts and Plant Damage
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A plant’s growth habit provides function and beauty
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Take care of hostas going into winter
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Create a bird-friendly yard
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Celebrate the colors of fall with autumn flowers
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Climate Change Adaptations for the Urban Forest
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The disadvantages of landscape fabric
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Adding purple shade trees to your landscape
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Perennial plant of the year: Calamint
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Tender bulbs make for summer delights
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Two invasive landscape trees you didn’t know about: Tree of Heaven and Amur Corktree
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9 native Illinois shrubs for sun and shade
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Forsythia in Spring
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A certain air around Callery Pear
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Smart tips for shrub success
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Spring Garden Cleanup
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What to do with live Christmas tree after the holidays
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Natives and Landscape Plant Selection
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Plant spring bulbs now
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Burning Bush
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Fall Color in Oaks
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Ornamental Brassicas
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Benefits of Urban Trees
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Fall Tree Planting
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Daylilies
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Poisonous Plants
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Buttonbush
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The 'Annabelle' Hydrangea
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2019 Vermilion County Master Gardener Garden Walk
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Garden Storm Damage
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Native Plants and Biodiversity
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Osage Orange
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Strategic Garden Plantings
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Prescribed Burning
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Daffodils
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2019 Gardening Goals
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Great Gardening at Danville Area Community College: Local college hosts a wide variety of winter horticulture
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Tree Bark
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Climate Change and USDA Plant Hardiness Zones Part Three
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Fall Color in Native Grasses and Their Ornamental Uses
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Douglas Discovery Garden
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Garlic Planting
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National Pollinator Week
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2018 Garden Walk
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Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs
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Dividing Perennials in Spring
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Gardening with Reptiles
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Vegetable Gardening in the Midwest
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Planting Potatoes
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Gardening with Natives
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Renovation of Allerton’s Triangle Parterre Garden
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Keyhole Gardens
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Hostas
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Landscaping with native grasses
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Two trees you should never plant in Illinois - Colorado blue spruce and Callary Pear
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Native vs. "nativar" - do cultivars of native plants have the same benefits?
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Beat summer heat with low-water xeriscape gardens
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News Releases
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Landscaping with these plants will help reduce your watering this summer
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Tree bark adds visual bite to winter landscapes
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Planning a new perennial garden? Plant for the whole garden ecosystem
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To get in touch with nature, create a sensory garden
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Give summer-blooming bulbs a second chance, store them over winter
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Gardening advice now available 'in the air'
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Illinois Extension program teaches rainscaping practices
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Native prairie grasses create distinct, breezy aesthetic in home landscape
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Taking time to select plants for difficult growing conditions helps long-term success
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Create backyard paradise with tropical plant garden
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Support pollinators with cheerful viola flowers
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Six ways to keep your hosta foliage looking great
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Gardening enthusiasts invited to attend Gardeners’ BIG Day
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Be inspired for a great growing season at April in Paris gardening seminar
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How to use the 9 flower shapes to make your landscape something special
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Discover what you need to know before choosing Evergreens for your landscape
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Geometric shapes in landscapes add interest
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Autumn is a great time to plant trees, learn more at Oct 26 webinar
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Tips for planting balled-burlapped trees for long-term health, success
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Plant asters for unique display of fall color
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After the storm: Repair and care for damaged trees
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Create a bird-friendly yard
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Hire tree care professional with confidence
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Get to know the incredible Illinois milkweed
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Tour beautiful gardens during the Master Gardener Over the Gate Garden Walk
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Missing Arbor Day doesn't mean you can't plant a tree
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The gardening methods you need to tell goodbye
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Grow your green thumb this spring with free online gardening classes
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Heirloom flowers provide fragrance, beauty, pollinator support
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Birds, bees need growers' help to keep pollinating
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Make way for new award-winning garden plants of 2021
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Perennial plant of the year, calamint, a perfect pick for pollinators
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Fall is a great time for planting trees
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Staff
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Christopher Enroth
Horticulture Educator
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Tara Heath
Horticulture Program Coordinator
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Stanley (Jay) Solomon
Extension Educator Natural Resources, Environment & Energy
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Emily Swihart
Horticulture Educator
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