Early flowering native plants offer more benefits to wildlife than spring blooming bulbs. Spring flowers are particularly important for early pollinators. Succession plant early bloomers with ...

Early spring is marked by deceptive and unpredictable weather, swinging from milder temperatures to flash freezes. "There are warm, almost hot days when you sit out on the steps lifting a pallid face ...

Once there’s even a hint of spring in the air, such as longer days with more sunshine or the plaintive song of the black-capped chickadee, it’s time to look for ephemeral wildflowers. In fact, by now ...

When we are living through the darkest, coldest weeks of winter, it is sometimes hard to imagine that spring will ever come. But every year, miraculously, it does. And this glorious shift to something ...

As the soil warms and the first green shoots of spring emerge, hummingbirds make their way back north after wintering in Mexico and Central America. When they arrive in our yards and gardens after ...

Roses are red. Violets are blue. But sometimes they can be yellow, too. Or even white. Roughly 20 species of violets grow in Illinois, and many have heart-shaped leaves with five petals on blooms ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. After the most unusually warm month on record across the United States ...

Spring, the season of renewal, hope and new beginnings, is most often signified by the bloom of new buds. Flowers of all kinds of colors pop up across various landscapes, marking the start of a fresh ...