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Ellen and Jack Donovan clearing buckthorn in the arboretum

Back to the buckthorn

As most of our native trees are losing their leaves, non-native buckthorn and bush honeysuckle stand out with their dark green foliage, making this an ideal time for identifying them—and cutting them down. This winter, we plan to continue clearing ...

6 years ago

Civic Center Garden September sunflowers

Community, Native plants, Planting, Wildlife

For the birds

The Civic Center Habitat Garden, with its layers of bird-friendly vegetation, will make Evanston an even more welcoming stopover place for migrating birds....

6 years ago

Community, Native plants, Planting

Planting the sun and the moon

A Y.O.U. afterschool group from Edison Elementary joined us Thursday to plant wildflowers and grasses around the Harbert Park overlook....

7 years ago

Community, Native plants, Wildlife

Messiness is beautiful

Habitat gardens may look messy, but hidden among the browning vegetation are seeds and berries and bugs that are part of a complex web of life....

7 years ago

Community, Native plants, Planting

A perfect day for planting

Community members came out today to help plant wildflowers and grasses in the Ladd Arboretum's new sun garden, an area behind the Ecology Center where non-native and invasive trees have been cleared to create a sunny patch where prairie plants will t...

7 years ago

Community, Planting

Working with Y.O.U. at Twiggs Park

Today, a group from Y.O.U. (Youth and Opportunity United) joined the older volunteers to plant flowers and grasses around the Twiggs Park overlook....

7 years ago

Community, Native plants, Planting

A time to plant: Oaktober at the Ladd Arboretum

Oak Awareness Month each October is a statewide effort to raise awareness of the value of the region's native oak ecosystems. Oak trees are not only beautiful and long-lived—they also are the most important tree for birds and butterflies....

7 years ago

Community, History

“It is what you do for your community that counts”

Young people from Y.O.U. (Youth and Opportunity United) will be at Twiggs Park on October 3, planting around the overlook deck. The park was dedicated on another October day, in 1986, to the memory of William H. Twiggs (1865-1960) in honor of his co...

7 years ago

Teamwork - Sheila and Tom raking mulch in the arboretum

Caring for plants, Community, Planting

How you can get involved this fall

Volunteers are welcome to join the City of Evanston's North Shore Channel Habitat Project as we create, restore, and care for bird habitat along the channel and in the demonstration garden in front of the Civic Center....

7 years ago

Western sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis) in the Civic Center Bird Garden

Caring for plants, Community, Native plants

Take a tour of the Civic Center bird garden

We created the bird habitat garden in Spring 2017 as the North Shore Channel Habitat Project kicked off as a vivid demonstration of the attractions of gardening with plants native to this region—and of the City of Evanston's commitment to expanding...

7 years ago