Winter gardens often feel sleepy, blanketed in muted tones and bare branches. But what if your garden could dazzle even when the flowers have gone to sleep? Colourful bark shrubs are like nature’s ...

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Don’t prune your forsythia, lilac or mock orange yet. Anything you cut off now will result in that much less of a flower show this spring. Except for these and many other spring-flowering shrubs, ...

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Ira Satinover has a dream … that the purple prairie grass, butterfly weed, the rattlesnake master rustling and swaying in his front yard has spread to every garden on his Oak Park block. “I want you ...