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Four Seasons Gardening Program offers spring series

LASALLE — The spring series of the University of Illinois Extension’s Four Seasons Gardening Program, which focuses on environmental stewardship, home gardening and backyard food production, gets underway the month of April. The public is invited to participate in this free webinar series. The first session of the series is titled “Slow Flowers: Grow Your Own Cut Flowers.”

University of Illinois Extension State Master Gardener Specialist Candice Hart will teach participants how to grow a variety of cut flowers here in Illinois, the benefits of having cut flowers in the garden and how to condition them to be long lasting. She will discuss her all-time favorite flowers to grow, and share tips and tricks for success.

This program will be offered via a live webinar at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, from wherever you have internet access by preregistering at go.illinois.edu/fourseasons. Recorded videos of these sessions can be viewed following the program at go.illinois.edu/fourseasonsrecordings. Please note that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, offices are closed and are unable to offer viewing options at office locations.

Other topics in the spring series include “Landscape Design with Natives 101” set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, and “Illinois Monarch Action Plan” set for 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 26.

Each session is free to the public. Advance registration is needed. You may call the Bureau, LaSalle, Marshall and Putnam County University of Illinois Extension headquarters office for more details at 815-224-0889, or you may email Extension Program Coordinator Meg Overocker at meo@illinois.edu.