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• Community Garden Programming Blog
  A place to learn more about community, school, and youth gardens.
• Dig It Blog
  Service of the Peoria Master Gardeners and the Peoria Journal Star.
• ILRiverHort Blog
  Ferree's Horticulture Blog
• Japanese Beetle News Blog
  Current information for homeowners and agricultural producers
• Extension Connection
  Weekly news articles written by extension horticulture educator Rhonda Ferree appearing in Canton Daily Ledger.
• ILRiverHort News
  ILRiverHort News provides horticulture education to four counties along the lower Illinois River Valley: Fulton-Mason-Peoria-Tazewell.

News Releases

• Community Garden Resources
• Recipe for Successful Container Gardens
• Horticultural grilling adds just the right flavor
• Don't Doubt the Drought Telenet

Podcasts

• Gardener's Corner
• Spotlight on Natural Resources
• Green Side Up

Photo Galleries

• Master Naturalist Graduation Collages 2012
• Master Gardener ICC Gardens
• Japanese Beetles
• Ferree's New Shade Garden
• Week by Week in a Garden
• Peoria County Master Gardener Projects 2011-12
• TAZEWELL MASTER GARDENERS at ICC

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Contact Us

Rhonda J. Ferree
Extension Educator, Horticulture
University of Illinois Extension
127 S High St, Ste 1
Havana, IL 62644
Phone: 309-543-3308
FAX: 309-543-6239
ferreer@illinois.edu

Julia Pryor
Program Coordinator, Master Gardeners
University of Illinois Extension
127 S High St, Ste 1
Havana, IL 62644
Phone: 309-543-3308
FAX: 309-543-6239
jpryor@illinois.edu

Featured Websites

Additional Websites

• Illinois Master Naturalists
  University of Illinois Extension Master Naturalist Program provides science-based educational opportunities that connect people with nature and help them become engaged environmental stewards.
• University of Illinois Plant Clinic
  Let us help with your plant problems. We do plant and insect identification, diagnosis of disease, insect, weed and chemical injury (chemical injury on field crops only), nematode assays, and help with nutrient related problems, as well as recommendations involving these diagnoses.
• Lawn Talk
  Learn what grass varieties are best for your lawn, how to deal with shady areas, when to fertilize your lawn & more!
• Hort Corner
  An extensive website about plants, home gardening, insects, trees and shrubs.
• Ornamental Grasses
  Learn how to select the right ornamental grasses for your landscape.
• Garden Calendar
  A helpful monthly guide to know what to do in your garden.
• Soil Testing
  Need to test your soil? Here's what you need to know.
• Gardener's Corner Podcast
  Gardening Tips and Techniques from University of Illinois Extension
• West Nile Virus
  Learn what you can do to protect yourself from West Nile Virus.

Local Resources and Information

• 2012 Horticulture Program Summary
  
  
• 2013 Garden Calendar
  Provides garden tips each month.
  
  
• Common Problems of Ash Trees
  
  
• Community Gardening Toolkit
  A resource for planning, enhancing and sustaining your community garden project from University of Missouri Extension.
  
  
• Resistance of Ornamental Plants to Deer
  
  
• Rhonda's Top 10 Turf Tips
  
  
• Sustainable Backyard Landscapes
  Sustainable backyard landscaping – what does that mean? Simply it involves gardening activities that do not cause long term environmental harm nor miss-use non-renewable resources. These website links will introduce you to backyard management ideas that are sustainable. It really is not complicated – once you understand the basics. As a global society it is becoming more obvious that our actions influence others. As a society we are just beginning to identify and change our day-to-day activities to reduce and/or eliminate environmental outcomes that will impact future generations. Learn how you can start to do your part in your own backyard.
  
  
• The Meaning of Flowers
  
  

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