As much as I adore my garden, by the time fall rolls around part of me is grateful for the end of the growing season.
I’ve run into a few serious gardeners over the years who have insisted “friends don’t let friends buy annuals,” as if doing so somehow negates any gardening efforts and brings puts your gardening reputation in question.
Everyone I know is chomping at the bit for spring to finally arrive and stay awhile.
Growing up I don't think I realized you could buy marigold plants for your garden.
Believe it or not, late summer and early fall are the best time of year to give your lawn a little TLC.
Until I was a homeowner, all I knew about daylilies was they were the orange "ditch lilies" my neighbors had back home that my mother forbid me to plant. Some years, these neighbors would thin their daylilies, leaving a big pile of the discarded plants by the street labeled with a big sign t…
At what point does a garden trend lose its trend status and just become another gardening style?
Have you noticed how being "busy" is the standard answer when someone asks "How are you?"
I love rosemary, but I can’t for the life of me keep it alive reliably over the winter months. I've lost track of how many poor unfortunate rosemary plants have died in my care over the winter.
There's a question I've been asked for years, both seriously and by people with a smirk on their face because they know it's impossible. The question is some variation of: "Can you tell me what to plant for a no-maintenance garden?"
As a mom of two young children, I don’t have time for fussy plants in my garden. It’s survival of the fittest out there. Surprisingly, one of the plants that has proved its worth in my garden is lavender.
For as long as I can remember, my dad has relentlessly battled creeping Charlie (aka ground ivy).
If someone asked you to name your favorite spring flower, what would you say? Something along the lines of daffodils, tulips, or hyacinths? Even though there are probably a thousand daffodils in my yard, my all-time favorite is the primrose.
Years ago, when I was a newly-minted University of Illinois Extension Educator, I received a phone call one afternoon from a reporter for a Chicago-based television station. I was taken off-guard, wondering why they were calling me since Decatur is about 180 miles from Chicago.
Read through the obituaries published today in Herald and Review.
Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Herald and Review.
A group of Illinois’ top Democrats Thursday pitched to have the state become one of the first five in the nation to hold the party’s 2024 presidential primary elections.
The Springfield-based charity Elevated Access was incorporated in late April, according to Illinois secretary of state records.
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s tight restrictions on who can carry a handgun, condemnation erupted from liberal leaders and activists. But some public defenders, often allies of progressive activists, have praised the court’s ruling, saying gun-permitting rules like New York’s have long been a license for racial discrimination. The defense lawyers say that by making it a crime for most people to carry a handgun, New York and a few other states have ended up putting people — overwhelmingly people of color — behind bars for conduct that would be legal elsewhere.
In a 20-page ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough determined the signage merely contains “a purely factual statement” about the new law.
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A Decatur police officer arriving Thursday evening to assist with an ongoing pursuit discharged his weapon in the direction of a suspect who was pointing a handgun at him, officials said.
Decatur police responded to a shooting at approximately 1:30 a.m. Thursday at the corner of East Wood and South Maffit streets.
The coroner’s inquest into Shyann Foster’s death, along with inquests into two other Decatur shooting deaths, returned verdicts of homicide.
Diantae L. Beacham, 22, was charged after the June 5 incident that left one man dead.
A group of Illinois’ top Democrats Thursday pitched to have the state become one of the first five in the nation to hold the party’s 2024 presidential primary elections.
In a 20-page ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough determined the signage merely contains “a purely factual statement” about the new law.
“For nearly 50 years, we have talked about what Roe v. Wade protects. Today, as of right now, as of this minute, we can only talk about what Roe v. Wade protected. Past tense,” she said.
Though abortion will remain legal in Illinois, a steady influx of out-of-state patients may unleash "a massive ripple effect" that could potentially impact access.