It's Gardening Time in Evanston!

Say "CSNA" and many will think mainly of civic issues, but we've always been more than that. Of all the content posted here over the years, possibly the most-visited, with over 100,000 views of the various pages, has been Jeff Smith's 2008 collection of about two dozen native plant species suited to partial or very shady gardens in Evanston. These include, at last look, American bittersweet, Black snakeroot (a/k/a black cohosh; bugbane), bloodroot, Canadian wild ginger, cardinal flower, celandine poppy, Culver's root, false Solomon's-seal, foamflower, goatsbeard, great blue lobelia, jack-in-the-pulpit, Jacob's-ladder, May apple, meadow anemone, midland shooting star, ostrich ferns, prairie dropseed, prairie trillium, Solomon's-seal, spotted joe-pye weed, violets, and Virginia bluebells.

Check out our "book" here:

Gardening with Native Plants in Shady Evanston.

We do recognize that the pictures, which seemed quite vivid in 2007, now may seem a little low-res. If you have some better examples we'd be interested! Let us know.