Technically speaking, the aster family is a botanical crazy quilt of composite bloomers (plants whose inflorescences contain ...

Poppies come in a number of different varieties. Despite their delicate-looking petals and foliage, they hold up well ...

There’s a humorous old saying variously attributed to originate to China or The Netherlands and it goes something like this: ...

The autumn season is a time of shorter days and cooler temperatures. The landscape has been transformed into a palette of ...

While you may want birds visiting your garden, there's an invasive weed species that could cause them to overstay their ...

They have cataloged natural life online and have developed board games and walking tours to help people deepen their ...

The plants are sometimes present in the thousands, and they can produce a brilliant floral display in the fall.

Plant four stunning autumn flowers this October that will not only brighten your garden but also attract wildlife and thrive ...

Nature:Pokeweed berries provide food for many birds I recently spent time photographing numerous white-crowned and white-throated sparrows eating aster seeds in ... The theme is plant and animal ...

Is this yellow aster? Several of my coneflowers just had brown cones; they didn’t bloom. Can I cut down the plants now or do ...

And if you missed the Master Gardener Fall Plant Sale, there are plants and seeds available locally and online ... think ...

At Calumet area forest preserves, seed-saving efforts ensuring native plants repopulate plots cleared of invasive species.