We wait all year for their riot of flowers. These landscaping plants give us colorful blossoms, invigorating fragrance, lush leaves, and sometimes fruit and dazzling fall colors. Here are the best spring-flowering trees and shrubs for the Midwest! Except for pruning,...
The secret of a healthy garden is in the soil. We often don’t treat it any better than dirt. But soil is so much different than that. As a clump in our hand, it looks simple enough, but under a microscope, we see it’s a complex substance, alive, and teeming with...
Now that April has arrived, it’s finally time to drop our winter habits and start gardening again. But sometimes, it’s hard to know what to do with the brown landscape of early spring. Some gardening tasks must wait until May, but for the most part, here in Zone 5,...
Learning how to start a vegetable garden can be one of the best investments for your health you’ll ever make, a source of fun for the family, a way to save money, and an enjoyable hobby of its own. But, if you’re on the hunt for info about how to start a garden from...
We are part of the Chicago Region Trees Initiative (CRTI), the largest initiative in the country building a healthier regional forest. Trees save lives by cleaning the air we breathe. Air pollution has been linked to numerous health issues, but trees, especially...
