150 Tips: Garden Design and Planning Ideas
Winter is the perfect time to plan and design your garden, whether you’re putting together a layout for your vegetable garden or a master plan…

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Winter is the perfect time to plan and design your garden, whether you’re putting together a layout for your vegetable garden or a master plan…
The Medtronic Foundation Community Garden at Augsburg University in Minneapolis was founded in 2007 and is often called the Food-to-Grow Garden. It’s located on the…
It’s always fun to follow trends in home design and gardening, no matter what your personal garden style. This year, gardens will be ‘Very Peri’—the…
Road salt and other de-icers are a fact of life in Minnesota winters, keeping ice from forming on roads and sidewalks. And, just as many…
Each year, the Perennial Plant Association chooses a “plant of the year.” It’s a great way to highlight plants that consistently grow well in gardens…
The Minnesota Horticultural Society was founded by people who wanted to grow apples and other fruits in a northern climate. But from its earliest days…
One of the joys of growing your own food is the perennial opportunity to push the growing season and try new things, even those that…
Collecting, processing and sharing seeds—that’s how 485 people spent much of summer 2021 as part of our newest program, the MN SEED project. We got…
Like a broken record, I’m always repeating this mantra for gardening success—the right plant for the right place. Re-creating native conditions for any plant is…
The January/February 2022 issue of Northern Gardener is on newsstands now, and it’s a special one for several reasons. First, we are marking 150 years…
Winter is a great time to plan future plantings, and adding shade trees to the garden is something that should be considered carefully. We have…
Each issue of Northern Gardener is packed with tips for those of us who grow food and flowers in the North. It’s hard to pick…
American yew is not planted often because it is toxic to humans and animals, but for those who do plant it, it can handle all…
One of the easiest houseplants to grow, jade plant (Crassula ovata) is native to provinces on the eastern side of South Africa and in Mozambique….
“Gardening has been part of my life since my grandmother had my sisters and I weeding in the heat and humidity on her farm among…
Each year, Minnesota landscaping professionals, including many horticulture students, attend the Northern Green Expo, put on by our friends at the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape…
As there is a growing push to include more local and fresh fruits and vegetables in school lunches, school gardens have become much more common,…
Minnesota author Heather Holm has long been a go-to source for science-based information on pollinators. Her latest book explores the world of wasps, and it’s…
With all the gardening books, tools and plants to buy, it’s usually not hard to find gifts for gardeners in your life. But deciding what’s…
At the end of every gardening season, I order next year’s annual plants for my regular gardening clients. I consider it a huge job perk—I…
This article about Laura Stone, the home garden winner in the MSHS Great Gardening Contest 2021 originally appeared in the November/December 2021 issue of Northern…
Our routine Instagram scrolling ground to a halt when we laid eyes on Simone Schneegans’ giant stump planter. Packed with cascading Dorotheanthus, heaping piles of…
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