Articles filed under Gardening
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Spring yard and garden prep for plant healthApr 10, 2022 7:00 am - Spring in Chicago can be very unpredictable; it can be short, cold, rainy, dry or warm. We never know with climate change. The official start of spring was March 20. By ...
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Tidy up your planting bedsApr 10, 2022 7:00 am - Finish cutting back perennials and cleaning up garden debris early this month if you have not finished this job yet. It is best to cut back perennials before they start ...
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Short on space for veggies? Smaller varieties thrive in containersApr 09, 2022 7:00 am - For many gardeners, a large property with rows of green peppers and sun-kissed tomatoes as far as the eye can see is just a dream. Many of us either don't have much soil...
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First Congregational's Green Garden Fair returns May 7 in ElmhurstApr 08, 2022 11:00 pm - First Congregational Church in Elmhurst is bringing back their annual Green Garden Fair after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic. It will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. S...
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A landscape assessment led to a group of Grayslake volunteers taking on invasive buckthornApr 07, 2022 5:29 am - Eradicating a tenacious invasive plant and expanding efforts to help where needed has become a mission for a newly formed Grayslake-based volunteer group. Finding buckth...
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Second annual Richardson Farm Tulip Festival to open on Mother's DayApr 05, 2022 11:00 pm - The Spring Tulip Festival is opening just in time for Mother's Day, starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 8, at Richardson Farm in Spring Grove. There should be 50,000-100,000...
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Learn how to use woody plants in your landscapeApr 04, 2022 1:00 am - Landscaping ecologist Mary Fortmann will discuss landscaping with native woody plants at the Lake to Prairie Chapter of Wild Ones on Tuesday. The meeting is in person fr...
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MWRD offering free oak saplings for Cook County residentsApr 04, 2022 1:00 am - The Metropolitan Water Reclamation District is offering free native oak saplings to Cook County residents through its Restore the Canopy program. Three types of native o...
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Prune while waiting for plants to emerge this springApr 03, 2022 7:00 am - Many evergreens do not respond well to being aggressively cut back. A good rule of thumb is to avoid cutting below green foliage. Yews respond to a more drastic cutback ...
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Fossils and fiddleheads: A look at some local species of fern and what makes them so fascinatingApr 01, 2022 6:00 am - As a kid, I remember watching time-lapse videos of a flower blooming or of the sun racing across the sky. Of course, things don't happen that way in nature with one poss...