Rambler Roses
In the Summer 2024 issue of Northern Gardener magazine, garden writer Kathy Purdy makes a compelling case for adding rambler roses to your landscape. While…
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In the Summer 2024 issue of Northern Gardener magazine, garden writer Kathy Purdy makes a compelling case for adding rambler roses to your landscape. While…
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Many of us Minnesota gardeners grew up and grew old visiting the annual spring flower show at the downtown Minneapolis Dayton’s (then Marshall Fields and…
Plan your next garden project in Canva, the free online design program. I love Canva. It gives the power back to the people. If you…
Asparagus has so much going for it, yet it’s sometimes overlooked by gardeners. Don’t let that be you! Asparagus is very hardy in our northern…
In this weird, Seattle-like winter, nothing brightens up a home as much as a lemon, lime or orange tree growing indoors. Growing citrus indoors in…
Many of the plants in your garden will never need pruning. An entire summer of vegetable gardening can go by without any thought of pruning,…
Seed bombs are a bit of a buzz word right now in the gardening world. Also known as seed balls or flower bombs, the idea…
With the winter of 2023-24 on track to be one of the warmest, if not the warmest winter ever recorded in Minnesota, what’s a gardener…
I won a copy of Marianne Willburn’s inviting book on tropical plants at a gardening event last fall. The author cheerfully signed it for me,…
I started making wreaths in the early 2000s, when Martha Stewart was everywhere (books, television, magazines). She was always making them with all sorts of…
It must be garden planning season because two different people recently asked me variations of this question. Let’s dig in. Question: I’d really like to…
Winter is a natural downtime for gardening in the North. There are always a few months after the garden has been put to bed (and…
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…
We’re almost there, folks: the shortest day of the year. Photography is a dream right now—the golden hour lasts all day long. If only I…
When the USDA-Agriculture Research Service and Oregon State University released the updated map of plant hardiness zones for the United States, there was a collective…
If your friends and family know you’re a plant person, chances are houseplant gifts are coming your way this holiday season. Now your job is…
We’re northern gardeners, so we lovingly embrace our short growing season and we don’t whine about winter weather (at least not very often). But that…
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…
My gardens are still not quite put to bed yet for the year—I’m still harvesting collard greens, kale, walking onions and a variety of herbs….
Like many gardeners, I’m concerned about the depletion of peat resources around the world. The main ingredient in many potting mixes, peat comes from slow-forming…