Now in its 10th year, the Blomquist Garden of Native Plants’ Piedmont Prairie will tell a story of rebirth over the next few ...

The “Flower Power” theme returns after last year’s successful Spring Plant Extravaganza. “Flower Power” was a 1960s slogan associated with the flower children and the cultural movement ...

Bloomington High School South junior Max Pritchett said he’s grown up in a warming world and has concerns about what it might look like for him and future generations. Duke Energy is planning to ...

This stunning, low maintenance plant is fast growing and incredibly easy to look after. Known for its prolific purplish pink flowers, this vine is drought resistant and native to South America but ...

Skunk cabbage is the first native wildflower to emerge in Chicago’s woodlands in spring. Other ephemerals will follow, ...

Depending on the plant, this can be more or less difficult. My experience with this situation is that if I pay attention to dead-heading some of the flowers as they fade and/or thin seedlings when ...

“Even if we know that plants are being lost in the wild,” says Paul Smith, head of seed conservation, “if we can get them into the seed bank, we can regenerate them in the future.