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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…
What inspires your garden designs? The garden you grew up with? A garden you’ve visited in stories or real life? Mary Hockenberry Meyer, grass guru…
“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,…
One of the most popular talks at last week’s Northern Green Expo was on weedless gardening, given by author, scientist and occasional Northern Gardener contributor,…
The prairies of southern Minnesota area among the best places in the world to grow peonies, according to Laverne Dunsmore, owner of Countryside Gardens in…
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…
Each year, the color trend company Pantone names a color of the year. In 2013, it was Emerald; the year before, Tangerine Tango. For 2014,…
Soup Night: Recipes for Creating Community Around a Pot of Soup, by Maggie Stuckey (Storey Publishing, 2013) isn’t a gardening book—though its author has two…
On a day when the high temperatures here in Minnesota will likely not get about minus-15 and the wind is making the garden look like…
School is closed Monday, travel is considered dangerous, and Minnesota gardeners are looking out at their shrubs, trees and perennials and wondering, “Can my plants…
We had too many tips to confine this post to just one day. Here are six more of the 13 best garden tips of 2013….
No matter how long you have gardened, there’s always something new to learn. Looking over back issues of Northern Gardener and items on this blog…
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