Featured Houseplant: Calathea
The Calathea plant is a popular plant used for indoor office decoration purposes. It is often used in homes and businesses as well.
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Knowledge and resources about plants and planting are so vast they can be overwhelming. The best approach is to take advantage of information based on your areas of interest and then seek the guidance of a plant professional. Your local nursery or garden center has inspired people ready to offer advice.
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Daylilies, a Dependable Garden Favorite
Daylilies are tolerant of drought and flooding, immune to heat stress, tolerant of most soils and grow well in full sun or light shade.
All About Native Plants
What is a native plant? Seems like a simple question, right? It turns out that some things are not so easy to define.
How to Keep Evergreen Boughs Green
Evergreen boughs bring lively green color and fresh scents into your home over the holidays. But if we’re not careful, the branches easily dry out and leave us with a mess of needles instead of a beautiful wreath or centerpiece. So how do you preserve evergreen cuttings?
June is Perennial Gardening Month
Perennial gardens often bring to mind the classic cottage garden or vibrant perennial border, and rightfully so.
Popular Indoor Trees
Small houseplants are fun to nurture and enjoy on windowsills and side tables, but if you really want to make a statement in your living space, it’s fun to live among the trees.
Caring for New Transplants
Starting a regular plant maintenance and inspection program to head-off problems early, and providing good after-care will help maintain the health and vigor of your newly planted trees and shrubs.
Pruning Evergreens
Evergreen refers to a group of plants that retain their foliage during winter. Most evergreens have a strong central branch leader, which requires little pruning except to control plant height, increase the density of branching, or to shear into special shapes.
Why October is Renamed Oaktober
Oaks are essential to the ecosystem and in Illinois, we celebrate them the entire month of October. It’s a great time of year to plant an oak because fall planting gives the tree an extra growing season before the stress of summer.
Overwintering your favorite garden plants
This is the time of the year to make tough decisions about what will take up residence in the house and what will succumb to the frost.
