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Research-based horticulture information to help keep your plants and gardens thriving.
▶︎ Watch: Fall “Lawndry” List
Fall is a key time for many maintenance activities that support a lush, healthy lawn. Learn about fertilizer recommendations, aeration and overseeding, weed control, and more.
▶ Watch: Best Practices for Watering Yards and Gardens
In this webinar, you will learn about the water requirements for most plants, how proper watering practices can prevent plant diseases, and different ways to conserve water for your yards and gardens.
▶ Watch: Bringing the Garden Inside
In this webinar, you will learn about which plants can come indoors, the requirements for growing plants indoors after they have been outside all summer, and how to properly transition them to their new indoor home.
Finishing Your Landscape Design
To complete a successful design, you need to have a grasp of lot, house, and neighborhood characteristics and general design principles.
Landscape Structures
This article discusses common landscape structures, including hardscapes, driveways, walks, steps, decks and patios, retaining walls, fences, and lights.
Selecting Landscape Plants
Three things to consider in selecting plants are plant hardiness, site conditions, and visual and functional suitability for your landscape design.
Low-Maintenance Landscapes
All plants and structures require some maintenance, but you can choose the level of maintenance your landscape will require. If you don’t enjoy or have time for regular lawn and garden work, aim for a low-maintenance landscape.
Landscape Style Options
The geometric forms of buildings and natural elements both suggest design patterns. Landscape styles are divided into four categories in which varying proportions of geometric and naturalistic patterns are combined.
Landscape Planning
Whether you design on the computer or on paper, the concepts illustrated in this article will help you achieve a successful plan.
Landscape Design Principles
Successful landscape designs have certain underlying principles in common, including unity, balance, emphasis, scale, space, and lines.
Apple Pest Management for Home Gardeners
Home gardens with only a few trees make limiting pesticide use feasible while still producing a great crop of apples. This publication outlines basic principles of pest management for home-grown apples.
Codling Moth
Codling moth is an insect pest of apple, pear, and walnut crops in Wisconsin. Larval feeding can render fruit unmarketable, potentially causing severe economic loss. Learn how to identify, monitor, and deter this insect pest.