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Catch a Ride With Us!
Get the details on our upcoming bus trips to beautiful garden destinations.

Come Out and See Us
Find information on upcoming presentations by Chicagoland Gardening Editor Carolyn Ulrich and Columnist Mike Nowak.

The Resource Guide is Here!
Find sources for everything from plants, to decks, to landscaping in this supplement to the March/April issue. New this year, the guide is avaliable as an "E-magazine".

Mike Nowak, the magazine's irreverent columnist, has joined forces with WCPT-AM. Hear "The Mike Nowak Show" from noon to 1 p.m. each Sunday on the station, 820-AM. Read his column for our May/June 2008 issue.

I always utter a little giggle of glee when the conventional wisdom turns out to be wrong. Take politics ("John McCain's candidacy is dead") or sports ("The New England Patriots will win the Super Bowl") or gardening ("Americans don't have vegetable gardens anymore"). Well, the last one may be true. But it shouldn't be. Keep reading>>

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Illinois Gardeners can easily select, plant and care for their gardens with this series of books written by Don Williamson and William Aldrich, Publisher of Chicagoland Gardening Magazine.