Many families will pick out fresh Christmas trees soon. Choose carefully for a tree that will stay beautiful and safe through the holidays, says Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist in the Plant Clinic at The Morton Arboretum.
If you have formal shrubs or hedges—the kind you shear with a power hedge trimmer rather than pruning branches out by hand—it’s time for their last haircut of 2017.
When you wander the paths cut through the Schulenberg Prairie in summer, you’re surrounded by swaying grasses and tall flowers alive with butterflies, bees, and birds.
