Fix up your fall container gardens
Garden centers are awash with pumpkins, mums, pansies and kale in celebration of autumn. If your potted plants are looking a bit tired after a hot summer, now's the time...
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Fall blooms to keep your garden beautiful to the bitter end
By September, some gardens (and gardeners) are looking a little tired. Most of the perennials have finished blooming, but you can extend the show well into fall with a few...
Magnolias: Celebrating the queen of blooming trees
Every garden needs a showpiece — and for many of us, a magnolia tree is it. Come spring, magnolia trees are the prom dresses of the garden. Their magnificent showy...
John Moore’s garden has it all: great design and plant choices, seating, a pond–and edibles too.
The object of landscape gardening is to make a picture. The greensward is the canvas, the house or some other prominent point is the central figure, the planting completes the...
Crowning glory: Denise Ruch’s Villa Park garden, the 2003 Glorious Gardens Overall Winner
Anyone gardening in the Midwest has to be gutsy, a glutton for punishment -- or both. We're not like those gardeners in Oregon and Washington. You know the ones, pictured...
Mail-order pride
Gardeners have ordered seeds, plants and hard-to-find garden supplies through catalogs for decades. But the Internet has given mail-order gardening a big boost. With a few clicks, you can place...
Coloring outside the lines
At some point in a gardener's life, he or she will likely come across the books and photographs of the renowned gardener and garden writer Christopher "Christo" Lloyd (1921-2006). The...
Anglophile style still at hit with American gardeners
Look up and down the street in just about any neighborhood and you'll find an expanse of green grass. Homeowners and corporations spend billions of dollars each year to cut,...
Last-minute maintenance prepares for packing garden tools
The frost is settling in, a signal that it's time to stow your shovels, trowels, rakes and other gardening hand tools. Spend a few minutes maintaining them now, and they...
Surveying the Sunday landscape
Frank Mariani loves the weekend, especially Sundays. As owner of Mariani Landscape in Lake Bluff, one of the largest landscape design, installation and maintenance firms in the country, he puts...