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Winter Solstice Brings the Promise of Light

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Nature-inspired Gifts from The Arboretum Store: Staff Picks

Arboretum Store holiday display

How to Take Care of Trees and Shrubs as You Light Your Landscape

Holiday lights on trees and home

A Common Garden of Oak Trees

Photograph of bur oak saplings planted in Bur Oak Common Garden at The Morton Arboretum

Don’t Panic About New Invasive Pest

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Historic Federal Funding Will Help Illinois People and Trees

Chicago Region Trees Initiative staff plant trees in needed areas throughout Chicago

Undergrad Shares Experience Working in an Arboretum Research Lab

Research Education Undergraduate student Mikealy Evans works with DNA in a lab

How to Help Your Plants Survive the Heat

Proper watering of a tree with a water wand.

Bring the Kids to Romp at the Arboretum This Fall

A family explores the maze garden among the bright orange fall leaves

Hardy and Hardly Tropical Hibiscus Bloom in Chicago

Pink Hibiscus flowers in The Gerard T. Donnelly Grand Garden in summer

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