Variety is the spice of life, so it's nice to have a variety of species to choose from when choosing flowering ground cover plants. For landscape design purposes, it's especially helpful to be able to ...

University of Illinois Pollinatarium Director Leslie Deem. +5 I had a request for this week’s article. One person requested short native plants that can be planted along road edges and at the ends of ...

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I don’t know where it came from, but in the middle of a weathered old spreading juniper in the front yard grows a tiny anemone that produces a single blue flower every spring. It’s struggling there ...