Nature at the Red Oak Rain Garden celebrates autumn with the bright purples of blooming aster flowers, a mosaic of tree ...

Horticulture Educator Jamie Viebach with the University of Illinois Extension says while the cold can hurt or kill some ...

Keep Carbondale Beautiful is selling native trees and shrubs, promoting keeping the local community beautiful as we head into ...

Several years ago, we had an extra pawpaw tree (Asimina triloba) after all the plants were distributed at the East Central ...

Be responsible about invasives, don’t ignore the beauty of natives and the special support they provide to your local ...

A series of plant sales coming up feature native varieties that don’t need a lot of water or fuss and that provide food and ...

The inaugural Pawpaw Festival in Paw Paw celebrated the largest fruit in North America and gave a proper setting to ...

Oriental bittersweet is an aggressive, twining woody vine that winds around the trunk or branch of a tree like a boa ...

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

The landscape designer Donald Pell believes using a wider palette with nonnatives from around the world can add joy to gardens.

An exotic large cat native to parts of Africa and Asia has been found under a deck after being spotted wandering around an Illinois golf club in the suburbs of Chicago.

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial ...