Chicago gardeners, autumn is tree planting time.  Have your heating bills been skyrocketing?  If so, trees will protect your home from the strong north and west winds in the Chicago area. Well-planned, carefully planted and attentively maintained...

Autumn has come at last and with it cooler temperatures.  This makes it easier for you and your plants to endure some garden chores that will reap rewards now and next spring.If you want to plant new trees...

Choosing plants for your garden should go beyond pretty flowers but also include interesting textures and colors of foliage. Leaves put on a much longer show than typical perennials which bloom for a shorter season.Using various shades and textures...

While the Rogue Valley was getting drenched this last weekend by the lower edge of Cyclone Pabuk, gardeners throughout the area were doing what they do – pondering the tasks still left to complete before putting their gardens to bed...

Many people with backyard gardens find it necessary to work within a very limited space. That means making some tough choices, and reserving valuable planting areas for only those things our families truly enjoy. It may also mean passing on...

There is still time to get out in the garden and put in a fall planting. The summer flowers are showing off their last blooms. Summer vegetables are pushing through the last of the harvest. Some  vegetables will continue...

Hampshire Illinois coyotes;  Coyote - Scientific name ‘Canis latrans’."... the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin...

When the plants in your garden look so good that you know you will want more of them next year, what are you to do?  It depends upon your level of patience.  You could wait until spring to...

If you had a successful garden this summer and have more than you know what to do with then the answer to that question is simple: preserve that bounty.Nothing gives a gardener a stronger tie to the land than...

If simplifying a garden to fit your lifestyle is important to you then let's hope you live in North Andover on Tuesday, Oct. 1, when an expert will give landscape tips to those in attendance at the Andover...

The October 2013 class schedule is now available. Leu Gardens provides a wide variety of gardening and garden themed classes to those in the Central Florida area (and many that drive from quite a distance). Why not start your year...

Autumn is beginning to take hold here in New Jerseys’ growing Zone 6 and vegetable gardening activity is generally subsiding to harvesting the squash and late tomatoes and thinking about next spring. But this is not universally true. A...