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This review originally appeared in the July/August 2014 issue of Northern Gardener. Consider yourself lucky if you’re not familiar with the term hellstrip. It’s one…
In late spring and early summer, many Minnesota gardens are abloom with iris, which is one of the easiest plants to grow in our climate….
The flowering shrubs. The bulbs. Perennials. It’s all blooming now. Here are a few shots we took this week of favorite spring bloomers. What’s your…
Today, Mildred Hinicker Wieners will be celebrating her 101st birthday at her home in Hastings. Mildred is a life-long gardener who instilled a love of…
Get together several hundred avid gardeners and a line-up of experts, and the questions and conversations start flying. Yesterday, MSHS hosted its third annual Spring…
“People are drawn to lilies because they are tough, hardy, relatively disease- and pest-free, and they multiply,” says Barbara Ronningen, North Star Lily Society (NSLS)…
This review also appears in the March/April issue of Northern Gardener. Please don’t be put off by the name. Whether you consider yourself a geek…
Each winter, the Garden Media Group releases its trend report for the year ahead. These folks comb through all the market, economic and psychological research…
It was such a pleasure to sink one’s hands into the warm earth, to feel at one’s fingertips the possibilities of the new season….
What an excitement it is to order rosebushes in this glacial world, and also to read the seed catalogs by the hour, slowly coming to…
The Covenant Village of Golden Valley retirement community has independent living apartments, assisted living apartments and a nursing home and rehabilitation center called Colonial Acres,…
Just being in a garden gives me incredible peace, like being in a foreign cathedral on a hot afternoon, when there’s nobody around, only…
The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that…
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” –Gertrude Jekyll,…
“I love that the children would eat anything they picked from the garden,” says Lindsay Anderson, site coordinator at Lake Nokomis Community School, Wenonah Campus,…
Though the purpose of horticulture is all about control — asking nature and particularly plants to submit to cultivation at our hands — it’s also…
The Northern Green Expo, sponsored each January by the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association, provides a sneak peak at what nurseries and garden centers will…
Finding gifts for gardeners who grow vegetables and love to cook has never been easier and you can find this practical duo at Mother Earth…
During the month of December, we’ve been featuring some ideas for gifts for gardeners that were published in the November/December issue of Northern Gardener. This…
Nature continues to inspire the stonecutters at Hedberg’s to make every piece unique. This year’s collection of wine racks is no exception, and the racks…
Sometimes best kind of gifts for gardeners in your life are living ones — the plants we all crave in the winter. If you plan…
During the month of December, we’re highlighting all the gifts for gardeners recommended in the November/December issue of Northern Gardener. What better way to celebrate…
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