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Growing Green: Orange Plants to Enhance Your Garden Palette

Height, texture, bloom time and color are some of the traits you want to consider when selecting new plants to include in your garden. Color is probably the first attribute...

Wed, Jan 23, 2013 - 9:50am

Growing Green: Must Have Garden Tools

Now that the busy-ness of the holidays are behind us and the New Year is under way, it's time to start planning for this year's garden. Before selecting seeds, perennials...

extension Wed, Jan 16, 2013 - 4:06am

Growing Green: Minnesota Natives: Ferns

Since more and more people are expressing interest in ecofriendly gardening, I thought I'd share some hardy, native Minnesota plants that require minimal care and add texture and color to...

opinion / extension Mon, Jan 07, 2013 - 7:21am

Growing Green: Successful Seed Starting

Now that winter is upon us, I love to sit snuggled in a cozy chair with my seed catalogs and pick out the plants I will include in my garden...

extension Mon, Dec 31, 2012 - 4:19am

Growing Green: Success with Poinsettias

I love November and December: the first snow, the crisp air, holiday music, and my kitchen full of the aromas of holiday cooking. My houseplants have filled every spare inch...

extension Mon, Dec 24, 2012 - 12:17am

Growing Green: Caring for your Fresh Cut Tree

One of my favorite holiday traditions is the selection of our fresh cut Christmas tree. We often traipse through snow filled fields in bitterly cold weather to find that perfect...

Wed, Dec 19, 2012 - 5:46am

Growing Green: Helleborus niger, Christmas Rose

I know the growing season is officially over when we make our annual trek to the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers conference. This time we travelled to Tacoma, Wa.,...

extension Wed, Dec 12, 2012 - 1:36am

Growing Green: Minnesota Gardening Calendar 2013

If you're looking for a great holiday gift for your loved ones consider the 2013 Minnesota Gardening Calendar. This award winning 12-month calendar, produced by University of Minnesota Extension Horticulturalists,...

extension Wed, Dec 05, 2012 - 4:50am

Growing Green: Grasses for Your Ornamental Garden

I have recently discovered ornamental grasses. I may seem like a late-comer to those of you who already grow these garden wonders, but the texture, season extension and utter majesty...

extension Wed, Nov 28, 2012 - 4:21am

Growing Green: Soil Health and Fertility

I have had many calls asking whether garden soil tests should be submitted in the fall. The answer is YES! Now is the perfect time to submit soil tests, and...

extension Tue, Nov 13, 2012 - 2:47am

Growing Green: Indoor Succulent Gardens

Looking for a different kind of houseplant or indoor garden? Why not try succulents? Succulents provide interesting geometric forms and textures and require minimal care. Many cacti and succulents are...

extension Wed, Nov 07, 2012 - 4:17am

Growing Green: Building Your Own Terrarium

As a kid, I loved the tiny worlds of terrariums. I collected colorful moss, interesting pebbles, and all sorts of garden discards to include in my glass jar (usually a...

extension Tue, Oct 30, 2012 - 10:41am

Growing Green: Indoor Gardening

The killing frost hit our flowers hard, and our growing season is officially over. With a sigh of relief, I look forward to the quieter days of garden planning, and...

Wed, Oct 17, 2012 - 5:21am

Growing Green: Protect Your Trees and Shrubs from Winter Injury

In April and May, I get many calls from distressed homeowners concerned about trees and shrubs that did not fare well during the treacherous winter months. Many of these plants...

Fri, Oct 05, 2012 - 4:20am

Growing Green: Putting Your Garden to Bed

Fall is a bittersweet time of beginnings and endings. Bright yellow school buses abound as children start a brand new school year. Rose bushes burst with their last colorful blossoms;...

Wed, Sep 26, 2012 - 11:20am

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