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Gardening in the north is rewarding but challenging—summer days are long and warm, but there aren’t always enough of them to accommodate all our gardening…
Looking for an easy way to expand your seeds for this year’s garden and a way to build community at the same time? Why not…
When you’re pulling everything out of the garden at the end of the season, some plants are best placed in the trash rather than your…
Lilacs blooming in September? Apple blossoms in October? Perhaps you have seen spring blooming plants flower this fall in your garden. It has not been…
The garden of Wayne Johnson and Bonnie Beresford in Alexandria, MN, is filled with unusual trees, shrubs, hostas and large flower beds. But Wayne’s favorite…
We gardeners get as excited about new plants as some people do about new restaurants. The day I heard about the new InnovaTreeTM poplar developed…
Growing ornamental, blooming plants alongside fruits and vegetables offers many benefits, and it’s fun! The term “companion planting” is defined by WebMD as “the practice…
Here’s an interesting question: where do your plants’ stems and leaves actually come from? In other words, where do plants get the raw materials that…
Have you heard the news? Marijuana/cannabis became legal in Minnesota on August 1, 2023. It only took about 15 days for me to get my…
Garden #1: Cut Flower Garden with Annuals I’ve always grown flowers for the value they add to our green landscape. I love the way a…
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…
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…
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