Tips, inspiration, and ideas for making plant care fun and easy
What is a Native Plant?
We talk about native plants a lot at Christy Webber Farm & Garden—but what exactly is a native plant? What is a non-native plant, or even an invasive?
Five Great Native Sedges for Your Garden
Sedges can provide a striking design element or important structure in your native plant garden—and they offer food and shelter for pollinators and other insects and birds.
But what exactly is a sedge?
How to Convert (Part of) Your Lawn to Native Prairie
By converting part (or all!) of your lawn to prairie, you can provide food and shelter for pollinators, sequester more carbon underground in the deep roots of native prairie plants, and absorb more rainfall, helping divert stormwater from Chicago’s overwhelmed sewer system… and maybe your basement.
Five Essential Native Plants for Dry Shade
Do you have spotty turfgrass, sad hostas or unsightly patches of bare cracked dirt? You may have a dry shade problem…
What is a Weed?
What is a weed? A “plant growing in the wrong place” is a widely cited definition, but it all depends on the plant and the person. Check out some examples of “weeds” and see if we can challenge your ideas about what makes a plant a weed…
Planting for Pollinators in the Chicago Area
While monarchs and milkweed get a lot of attention (migrating to and from Mexico every year is very impressive), there are thousands of other native pollinators in the Chicago area just waiting for you to plant their favorite flowers.
New Green Pots Made From Plants… Not Plastic
Christy Webber Farm & Garden is helping to reduce the impact of single-use plastic pots by using biodegradable RootMaker Green pots in our Native Plant department.
April Is Officially National Native Plant Month
Senate Resolution 570 was unanimously approved last month, designating April 2022 as National Native Plant Month.
Native Plant Alternatives: Beautiful Solutions to the Biodiversity Crisis
Eastern Wahoo is a native plant in Illinois and safe for our environment.