Now that everything’s pretty much dead outside, are you noticing your houseplants a little more? I sure am. I noticed that several of them were dead! But they were just pileas (Pilea peperomioides, sometimes called a pancake plant), and I have so many of those that I didn’t feel too sad about putting them in…

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of MSHS this year, one of our projects has been the creation of pollinator plant packs. These groups of plants will be sold for a limited time in local nurseries and are just the thing to make your garden — no matter what the size — a pollinator magnet. Each…

Greetings, fellow gardeners of the north. As a Hennepin County Master Gardener, I’m used to fielding questions about gardening. From “does my ash tree have emerald ash borer?” to “why do I never get any tomatoes?” This month, I received a more unusual question, though one that’s becoming more popular with sustainable gardening activists… Q:…