Garden tips for January

Trendspotting. Our mailbox reveals what seed companies think we'll want this year. Their idea of the latest trends: dark purple and near-black foliage paired with this year's "hot" color — tangerine. It's so unusual: Trendiness aside, what's most exciting about the influx of seed catalogs are ...

Uptown homes are lovely on Loyola Avenue

Four of the distinctive houses from the early years of the 20th century are large, two-story homes in the Neo-Classical Revival style that dwarf the petite shotgun at the corner of Jena.

Organic at last

Switching to sustainable landscape care brings a bumper crop of benefits