Info Sheets
Keep these handy guides ready when problems emerge.
Get your guide to solving plant problems! Download any of these print friendly info sheets for a quick and easy guide that can help you navigate a variety of issues from selecting and planting trees to pests in the garden.
Pests and Diseases
- Reports on Plant Disease
- Pantry Pests
- Boxwood Blight
- Emerging Diseases in Illinois
- Laurel Wilt on Sassafras
- Downy Mildew of Grape
- Plant Growth Regulator Herbicide Injury
- Poison Hemlock
- Wild Parsnip
- Invasive species
- Jumping worms English | Spanish
- Spotted Lanternfly
- Chaff flower English | Spanish
- Garlic Mustard: Homeowners, Land managers.
House Plants
- Air Plants
- Poinsettia Care Guide
- Troubleshooting Houseplants
- Kokedama Moss Balls
- Micropropagation at Home
Fruit and Vegetable Gardening
- When to Plant in Illinois English | Spanish
- Garden Tool Maintenance
- Fall Garden Checklist English | Spanish
- How to Grow Fruits, Vegetables, Herbs in Container Gardens
- Soil Health
- Composting 101 English | Spanish
- When and How to Take a Soil Test English | Spanish
- Indoor Worm Composting
- Cover Crops in the Home Garden
- Seeds
- Pests and diseases
- Herbs
- Vegetables
- Harvesting
Landscaping: Flowers, Grasses & Ornamentals
- How to Select a Garden or Landscape Mulch
- Floriography - the meaning of flowers
- How to Create a Sensory Garden
- Dividing Perennials
- Planting a Cut Flower Garden
- Pruning Hydrangeas
- Rose Rosette Virus
- Verticillium Wilt on Woody Ornamentals
- Bulbs
Native Plants
- Illinois Native Plants
- Native Prairie Grasses
- Native Spring Ephemerals
- Wet Woodland Garden
- Woodland Garden
- Dry Woodland Garden
- Woodland Border Garden
- Full Sun Rain Garden
Pollinators
- Help Save Our Pollinators
- Building a Floral Highway
- Pollinator gardens
- Pollinators