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Grasses serve many purposes in the garden. Illinois Extension says native grasses can increase root competition in plantings, ...

Now is the time to give extra care to the plants you’d like to showcase during the upcoming autumn and winter holidays, ...

Combining perennials that bloom during each season ensures your garden or landscaping will be constantly flowering ...

We’re around that time of year when I, like all gardeners with potted plants, will have to choose which ones to bring inside ...

This week's Plant Pick of the Week is a native shrub that turns wine-red and ripens blue-black berries in early fall.

Fall asters are long-lived perennials. The plants die to the ground soon after they finish blooming. Trim the spent stems ...

Tulips to me are planted for their bright colors which is why I don’t understand why people plant the depressing black “Queen ...

With all the seed buying and gardening that happens in spring, people forget that there are perennial vegetables that grow ...

The plant most commonly sold in nurseries as the citrosa or mosquito plant is a lemon-scented geranium. The lemony essential ...

Fall clean-up time has arrived gardening friends! Although we haven’t experienced frost yet, it’s likely that your garden and ...

Looking at a Carolina moonseed vine climbing the deck railing, bright red berries glistening in the sun, reminds me that just because a plant is native doesn’t mean it belongs ...