Gifts for Gardeners
A New Guide to Outside Style
With its friendly tone, practical sensibility and solid advice, Ryan McEnaney’s new book, Field Guide to Outside Style: Design and Plant Your Perfect Outdoor Space (Cool Springs Press, 2022), would be a great gift to any new homeowner or experienced gardener ready to revamp their yard. This book approaches garden design in a way that…
Read MoreGift Ideas: Garden Book Division
Yesterday, we listed some garden gift ideas from our November/December issue of Northern Gardener magazine. Today, I wanted to suggest some options you might consider for your favorite gardeners who enjoy a garden book from time to time. We’ve written a few times about my new book of garden wisdom, based on the files of…
Read MoreGarden Gift Ideas for 2017
Each year, Northern Gardener pulls together some ideas for gifts for gardeners. These garden gifts are the kinds of things we’d like to find under our tree this holiday season. This year, each garden gift we chose appealed to the senses and was sensibly priced. While we cannot list them all (you can find that…
Read MoreHoliday Gifts from the Garden
The November/December issue of Northern Gardener includes a great list of suggestions for holiday gifts that gardeners can give — especially if the recipient is a fellow gardener. Here are a three of my favorites from the suggestions: A Gift of Brains or Brawn. Whether your garden needs a tweak, a reboot or you are…
Read MoreBook Review: Garden Made
Are you a crafty gardener? If so, Stephanie Rose”s book, Garden Made: A Year of Seasonal Projects to Beautify Your Garden and Your Life (Roost Books, 2015), is a fun handbook to keep close by. Rose has collected 40 fairly easy to do projects to enhance your containers, your garden and your home. Rose began…
Read MoreGift Ideas for Gardeners, Part 2
A couple of weeks ago, we suggested eight gift ideas for gardeners who have everything. Today, we’ve got a few more, and the best thing is you can get them all during the MSHS Open House this Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at our store at 2705 Lincoln Drive in Roseville.…
Read MoreGift Ideas for Gardeners Who Have Everything
Some folks are just harder to buy for than others: They have everything and often they don’t really want more. But, you still want to express how much they mean to you with a gift this holiday season. So, here are a few gift ideas for gardeners who have everything. A subscription to Northern Gardener!…
Read MoreForce Spring Bulbs for Winter Beauty
We’ve passed the point where gardeners can plant bulbs outside for spring bloom, but it’s not too late to pot up bulbs for forcing into bloom in the winter. It’s fairly easy to force spring bulbs, and the appearance of something bright and springlike is a tonic come about mid-February. Many kinds of bulbs can…
Read MoreMSHS is Getting in the Holiday Mood!
The folks at MSHS are getting in the holiday mood this year with events, sales and special deals on memberships and subscriptions. This Saturday, Dec. 6, is the annual Holiday Open House at the MSHS office in Roseville. The store will be open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with special vendors on site, including those…
Read MoreGifts for Gardeners 2014
Every year, Northern Gardener works with some of the most savvy, on-trend buyers in Minnesota’s garden industry to come up with a list of gifts for gardeners. Read our previous blog posts for more gift ideas, or check out the November/December issue of Northern Gardener for the complete list.) Happy Holly Berry Tree Find a…
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