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It’s tomato season! Delicious tomatoes, sun-ripened and fresh from the vine—what’s better than that? Of course, any gardening endeavor produces questions, and you may be…
Do you bring your houseplants outdoors for summer? Sending a houseplant to summer camp on your patio, deck or even tucked into a garden bed…
I have a patch at the back of my yard where the ground dips to a low spot just beneath a silver maple tree. For…
Whether your goal is petite nosegays or elaborate arrangements, many blooming annuals offer a great supply of cut flowers throughout the growing season. Here are…
A brand new summer issue of Northern Gardener® magazine is landing in member mailboxes this week. If you’re not a member yet, it will be…
If you’re looking for a solution beyond fencing to keep rabbits and deer away from your plants, onions can help. Allium is the genus for…
Picture this. It’s early June, you have a sprinkling of new seedlings in the ground and forecasters are predicting frost overnight. Don’t panic. It seems…
Mother Nature is on her own schedule; this spring proves it more than ever. No matter when the blooming begins, the spring parade of color found in shrubs and small trees is splendid, and these beauties display in a fairly predictable order.
Neverending winter has me really searching for any plant-related activity I can find. April just also happens to be a great time to repot and/or…
Astilbe has long been a staple in my shade garden. They are so striking when they bloom, with their tall plume-like flowers in delicious shades…
Sedum (sometimes now called Hylotelephium) is a large genus of plants, many of which are hardy to USDA Zone 3. Whether you plant creeping or…
Here in the North, we can grow daylilies to our hearts’ content. They’re hardy and reliable and we can count on them even when winters…
We’re having a wild winter—buckets of snow, the occasional freezing rain and subzero temperatures (remember December?). Weather like this can be rough on trees and…
Perhaps you’ve seen an unusual orchid in the store and wondered, is that real? It may have been a brilliant red for Valentine’s Day or…
I was perusing holiday clearance racks at the local big box store and happened upon a shelf of abandoned amaryllis bulbs. They looked so sad,…
Happy New Year! I hope your holiday celebrations were as jolly and stress-free as possible. Now that the distractions of December have passed, I’m pretty…
I haven’t always loved growing plants, and I definitely haven’t always been good at it. In fact, there was a time when I could barely…
By early December, the garden is freezing up and most northern gardeners are settled in for the winter. Besides checking for garden catalogs, taking classes…
Poinsettias are a classic holiday plant, filling churches, malls and other public spaces with their red, pink and white splendor. But if poinsettias are not…
After the last Ice Age, Minnesota was a land with vast expanses of pine tree forests, so it’s no surprise that homeowners and gardeners have…
The snow squeaks under your boots as you trudge through the drifts to the mailbox. It’s only December, but you’re already growing weary of the…
As we near the end of November, it’s time to button up the garden and the gardener for winter. Cut back plants in fall (or…
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