University of Illinois Extension offices will be closed December 24 - January 1 for holiday break. Offices will return to ...

University of Illinois Extension offices will be closed December 24 - January 1 for holiday break. Offices will return to ...

Builders of the Future - 1st Saturday of the month at 9:30AM - Leaders: Molly Steber, Ashley Paddock Hilltoppers - 2nd weekend of the month at 4:00PM - Leaders: Terry Fleming, Julie Clodfelter ...

Join us for Wilderness Wednesdays, evening zoom meetings all about the wilderness and environment! Follow Dale as he travels ...

The Bond County 4-H Teen Leaders are excited to host a special event designed just for Cloverbuds! Join us for a Winter Wonderland Adventure where youth ages 5–7 ...

This year has been good for many plants, but not all. In late spring Central Illinois went through almost three weeks where it rained at least once per day. Many of our plants responded to this ...

URBANA, Ill. - There aren’t very many plants that come in a wider range of color than iris. In the past 50 years, thousands of cultivars in various colors, sizes, and forms have been developed. "I ...

Winter may be an odd time to write about an insect that we only see during the warmer months of the year. Yet, I can’t help but marvel at the architecture of the baldfaced hornet’s nest, which has ...

Poinsettias, Amaryllis, holly, and evergreens are common sights during the holidays. Another group of plants, holiday cacti, also make an appearance this time of year. With their brightly colored ...

Have you ever planted seeds, and nothing sprouted? This could be the result of many different things such as soil moisture, seed viability, soil temperature, planting depth, and many other factors; ...

We often don’t think much about insect pests outside of the occasional pantry pest or accidental invader during the winter months. Despite it being the middle of winter, that doesn’t mean our plants ...

A sad fact of life is that sometimes a tree must be cut down. Some trees are beset by invasive insects or disease, others may be mangled by storms, and some die from environmental stress or old age.