Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, May 5,2005

gardening 5-5-05

You can build an exotic oasis in your yard by incorporating tropical plants into an annual or perennial garden. Tropical plants offer great elements for the landscape: huge, shiny leaves; bo

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 28,2005

gardening 4-28-05

By Jennifer Fishburn

Looking for a way to decorate a fence, create privacy, complement a good architectural feature (or hide a bad one), or break a monotonous corner? Climbing vines, which have a large effect on

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 21,2005

gardening 4-21-05

By Jennifer Fishburn

Three annual flowers and three vegetables were chosen as the 2005 All-America Selections winners. The mission of AAS is “to promote new garden seed varieties with superior garden perfo

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 14,2005

gardening 4-14-05

By Jennifer Fishburn

Come spring, what do you do with the perennial herbs in your garden? Check all of the woody perennials for new growth — mainly lavender, oregano, sage, tarragon, thyme, winter savory,

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, April 7,2005

gardening 4-7-05

By Jennifer Fishburn

Crocuses in bloom are a signal to gardeners that we may now begin the search for our first plant purchases of the year. Most of us will go to the garden center, wander the

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, December 9,2004

Protecting plants in winter

By Jennifer Fishburn

The winter storm that hit central Illinois recently played havoc with driving conditions, holiday plans, and area trees and shrubs. The heavy snow that fell the day before Thanksgiving knocked

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, October 28,2004

Aliens have arrived. Now eat them.

By Jennifer Fishburn

Have you noticed the large crate of strange-looking green, orange, and yellow fruits that showed up recently at the supermarket? These tough-skinned beauties are winter squash. Not only do they make f

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, October 14,2004

Share your gardening knowledge

By Jennifer Fishburn

If you have a desire to learn more about gardening and share your knowledge with others, the University of Illinois Extension master-gardener volunteer program may be for you. You don't have to

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, October 7,2004

Plan now for a splash of color

By Jennifer Fishburn

One of my favorite gardening experiences is seeing yellow and purple crocuses peek through snow in March. Now is the time to select and plant spring bulbs if you want to enjoy a similar splash

Garden - Jennifer Fishburn | Thursday, September 23,2004

Get busy now, do less next spring

By Jennifer Fishburn

I haven't met a gardener who has ever found the end of his or her "to do" list. September is a good time to complete projects we didn't get done this summer. The first garden chore I recomme