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One of the new plants on the “runway” during the 2014 Spring at the Inn event last week was a new magnolia from Bailey’s Nurseries…
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)…
Recently, I had a chance to hear University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Shari Mayer from Dakota County talk about growing and using herbs. Shari…
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…
This past weekend, I was able to hear Northern Gardener columnist Eric Johnson talk about garden design and inexpensive, do-it-yourself projects that bring drama to…
Frankly, I’d rather be in Florida right now — and I’m sure many Minnesotans feel the same way. 2014 is likely to go into the…
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…
Some problems seem so big and complicated that you almost give up on doing anything about them. Please, don’t give up on pollinators, whether it’s…
For vegetable gardeners on mature lots, deciding what to plant can be tricky. Most vegetables need a minimum of six to eight hours of…
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….
For many gardeners, the ideal yard is relaxing, beautiful, relatively low maintenance and good for the Earth. Douglas Owens-Pike has been creating this kind of…
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,…
It’s still too early to start seeds indoors in Minnesota, with the exception of onions, but many gardeners are thinking about their seed-starting set up….
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…
This originally appeared in the January/February issue of Northern Gardener. In Five-Plant Gardens, 52 Ways to Grow a Perennial Garden with Just Five Plants, Nancy…
Winter sowing perennials has been around for several years now, and is a great way to start native plants or a lot of plants without…
With the winds whipping and a high forecast in the below zeroes again, it may seem like spring and your vegetable garden are far, far…
The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that…
We’re so encouraged by the number of schools taking advantage of the Minnesota Green program. Here’s the story of the students at Kimball Elementary School…
Winter sowing of seeds is one of the top three topics that bring folks to this blog. (The other top two are northern gardening…
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