Gardening isn’t just about creating a beautiful outdoor space, it’s an opportunity to nurture the environment. One of the most impactful and sustainable ways to enhance your garden is by ...

A diversity of native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants will be for sale along with multiple milkweed species and a selection of plants for pollinators and wildlife at the Illinois Native Plant ...

In adding native plants to our environment, the value of plants producing food for humans is not often discussed. Most are quite suitable for home landscaping and require much less care than ...

It is native to the woodlands of eastern North America, including Illinois. Wild ginger grows to be four to eight inches tall and has attractive, deciduous, heart or kidney-shaped dark green leaves ...

All across the country, native plants are being used in a unique and growing range of boutique farm-to-table spirits, but mostly gins. Rosemary in flower. Andrew Waugh A collaboration between ...

Nurseries tend to sell a lot of imported exotic plants from other places but there is a trend back to native plants as awareness of water and energy issues arise. True native plants can better ...

Some people see trash and weeds and walk on by. Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don't do their jobs. And some, like environmental scientist Marie Massa, roll up their ...

Several states share the same flower, and surprisingly, 16 states have chosen non-native plants. Some state flowers, like the Saguaro cactus blossom in Arizona and the bitterroot in Montana ...

“If we’re looking to ‘Make America Great Again,’ then I think it should start with the truth about the true American history,” said Deborah Parker, CEO of the National Native American ...