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Wildflowers Hort Answers Stepping Stones to Perennial Garden Design
Selecting Trees for Your Home Illinois Vegetable Garden Guide Annuals Evaluation Garden
Lawn Talk Ornamental Grasses Groundcovers to Know and Use
Additional Websites

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.

Selecting Shrubs for Your Home
Find the right shrub for your home landscape at Selecting Shrubs for Your Home.

Watch Your Garden Grow
Your guide to choosing, growing, preparing and storing common vegetables.

Successful Container Gardens
A guide for choosing a container, selecting soil mixes, choosing and combining plants, fertilizing, watering and grooming basics.

Gardener's Corner Podcast
Gardening Tips and Techniques from University of Illinois Extension

Illinois Master Gardeners
Master Gardeners are a group of volunteers trained by University of Illinois Extension educators to provide a network of gardening programs and horticultural activities to educate the public and enhance life in their communities.

Our Rose Garden
Find out how to grow and care for roses in Our Rose Garden.

Bulbs & More
Bulbs & More teaches you all about selecting, planting and landscaping with bulbs.

Herb Gardening
Guide to growing and using common herbs.

Composting for the Homeowner
This site gives an excellent indepth discussion of the science of composting, why it is important to compost, how to build a compost pile, and materials needed for composting.

Apples & More
Visit Apples & More to learn about U-pick apple orchards, apple nutrition, varieties & selection, and fun activities for children.

Common Vegetable Problems
Learn about common vegetable insect pests and diseases.

Gardening with Perennials
Gardening with Perennials will tell you how to plant and care for a garden that will bloom year after year.

Taste of Gardening
Here's a great resource for learning the basics of gardening.

Soil Testing
Need to test your soil? Here's what you need to know.

Composting in the Home Garden
Turn your yard waste into compost.

Raspberries & More
Learn about varieties & selection, how to plant, and where to find nurseries and U-pick farms.

Gardening with Annuals
Find out how annual flowers can brighten your garden.

Houseplants
Find out what houseplant is best for your growing conditions.

Gardener's Corner
Four seasons of gardening information.

Strawberries & More
Your guide to growing strawberries, u-pick strawberry farms, strawberry nutrition, and selection & care.

Tropical Punch
Learn how to use tropical plants as focal points and accents.

Hort Corner Video
Watch the Extension experts.

Water Gardening
Learn about aquatic plant selection and cultivation as well as container water gardening.

My First Garden
Learn how to plan, nurture and enjoy the benefits of a beautiful flower or vegetable garden.

Backyard Fruits
Backyard Fruits gives the basics of growing fruit in the home garden.

Focus on Plant Problems
Is disease affecting your plants and trees? Learn more at this website.

Miracle of Fall
Learn how leaves change color at The Miracle of Fall.

Pumpkins & More
You can learn about U-pick pumpkin farms, pumpkin nutrition, varieties & selection, and fun activities for children.

Fabulous Foliage
Looking for a spot of color or unusual foliage in your garden? Fabulous Foliage offers many valuable suggestions.

Winter Storm Resource Center
Links to the information you need to cope with severe winter weather.

Beyond Impatiens and Petunias
Find out about plants that offer color and interest to some of the most extreme gardening situations.

Green Side Up Podcast
Green Side Up is a weekly radio gardening program produced by WDCB (College of DuPage) and University of Illinois Extension.

Distance Diagnostics
A website to help people diagnose and identify plant and pest problems.

Bug Review
Pests bugging you? Check out The Bug Review.

Turf Diseases & Insects
Review the major insects and diseases of turf.

Gypsy Moth Reporting Site
Learn about gypsy moth and how to control it.

Dr. Arbor Talks Trees
Dr. Arbor teaches all about trees!

Hort Corner
An extensive website about plants, home gardening, insects, trees and shrubs.

Illinois Forestry
A wonderful library of links to forestry information and management references for citizens, students, teachers, landowners, environmental groups, natural resource managers, foresters, and loggers.

Garden Calendar
A helpful monthly guide to know what to do in your garden.

Lawn Challenge
Test your lawn care knowledge in this interactive eight lesson self-study course.

Lawn FAQs
Here's answers to our most frequently asked questions.

Illinois Steward
The Illinois Steward features articles about stewardship, conservation, preservation, and restoration of natural areas in Illinois.

Cicadas in Illinois
Learn about the life cycle of the periodical cicada.

Christmas Trees & More
Learn all about Christmas trees, as well as a listing of Christmas tree farms in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan.

Poinsettia Pages
How do you keep a poinsettia healthy? Find out in this website.

News

Gardener's Corner
Four seasons of gardening information.

Home Yard and Garden Pest
Provides timely information on insect, weed, and plant disease pests for landscapers, arborists, lawn care professionals, golf course personnel, and garden center operators.

Illinois Fruit and Vegetable News
A newsletter on the production of fruit and vegetable crops in Illinois.

Imagine
Newsletter from the state Master Gardeners Office

New Agriculture Network
Seasonal advice for field crop and vegetable growers interested in organic agriculture.

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