CHICAGO — On this Saturday’s edition of Weekend Gardening, WGN’s Tim Joyce dives back into the mailbag and helps a family with some pointers on how to get the group in the hang of garde… ...

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Look for plants with twin umbrellas to find the flowers. If you need help identifying the wildflowers you see, get a good guidebook, such as “Illinois Wildflowers” by Don Kurz, or try the ...

Thanks to geography and geology, residents of Southern Illinois can enjoy wildflowers 10 months out of the year. Southern Illinois is where north and south meet -- at least geographically. As a ...