advertisement
Emerging tulips need to be protected from animals that may eat them.

Protect your spring garden: Tips for bulbs, perennials and roses

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Tim Johnson shares tips on preparing your spring garden and propagating coleus cuttings.

Sign up for “Garden Gatherings, A Culinary & Cultural Journey” on Thursday, April 23, in Le Jardin at Cantigny in Wheaton. Horticulture director Jamie Burghardt Trace will discuss the history of one spring’s most iconic flowers at this seated dining experience.

Home & garden calendar, April 7-18

Learn about gardening club meetings and events in the Chicago suburbs, covering topics like integrating natives into traditional gardens, tulip history, and more. Also, listing of spring wildflower walks and plant sales.

The Crawford Warming House on the north side of Butler Lake in Libertyville. Butler Lake is among the new lakes participating in Lake County Lake Lovers’ expanded monitoring program.

‘It starts with volunteers’: Making lakes healthier comes from teamwork and knowledge

With many of Lake County’s 173 lakes classified as impaired, a growing volunteer group is on a mission to share information and help change the situation.

Nutrition advice you can count on: Eat a wide variety of whole-ish foods you enjoy. Get lots of fiber, and don’t overdo the salt or sat fat.

Nutrition advice is often unreliable. Here are 3 things you can count on.

You can find some kind of support for almost every diet theory going.There are, however, three issues where we have a robust body of reasonably reliable evidence. While there’s no such thing as absolute certainty when it comes to the complexities of nutrition and the human body, I am willing to say we’re pretty sure about these three things.

A data center being built at Arlington Heights Road and Northwest Point just south of Interstate 90 in Elk Grove Village. The village is already home to 20 data centers with 19 more in the pipeline.

Power, water and worry: How growing data center concerns are being addressed locally and statewide

Data center development in Illinois is facing the prospect of greater regulation at both the local and statewide levels after initially being embraced in many suburbs.

Wheaton Nurseries thanks their customers for their support in the wake of an electrical fire in its gift shop on March 23.

‘I was devastated’: Wheaton Nurseries receives outpouring of support after shop fire

Wheaton Nurseries, a family-owned business since 1895, has been “inundated” with messages of support since a fire in its gift shop along Roosevelt Road.

Sorry, lettuce. This is why parsley should be the star of a salad.

This parsley salad, with cool cucumber, crunchy toasted walnuts and scallions in a lemon-olive oil dressing, feels like spring on a plate. It’s an ideal accompaniment to rich roasts and stews, and it can also be turned into a simple, tasty meal topped with a piece of chicken, boiled egg or tuna. It’s proof that parsley can be so much more than a garnish.