31 Days to a Great Northern Vegetable Garden
Day 31: Best Books for Beg...
Well, we made it! This is day 31 of our series on how to create and maintain a vegetable garden. We hope this has inspired you to plant vegetables thi...
Great Plants for Northern Gardens
New Hydrangeas for 2013 (a...
The highlight of the annual MSHS Spring at the Inn event (other than meeting and talking with fellow gardeners) was seeing some of the new introductio...
Plant Shopping Time
Mother’s Day is traditionally the big plant shopping day of the year. But with our long, long winter, many gardeners still need to buy their annuals, vegetable starts and new…
Great Garden Centers: Linder’s
Update: This post was updated to correct the date of the Weekend of Fundraising. Our apologies for the error. We’re fortunate to have several large, independently owned garden centers in…
What’s Blooming in Your Northern Garden? May 9
What a difference a week makes! After an endless April and an early May snowstorm, the weather turned around this week, and the plants are taking off. Today’s photos…
What’s Blooming in Your Northern Garden? May 2
OK, so some of the blooms are covered with snow, but spring really is on the way and what better way to encourage it than to focus on the plants…
Great Garden Centers: Tangletown Gardens
Tangletown Gardens in south Minneapolis is a haven for the design-focused gardener and undeniably one of Minnesota’s great garden centers. It’s perennially listed on “Best of” lists and recently was…
Great Garden Centers: Otten Bros.
Just down the road from Kelley & Kelley in Long Lake, MN, is Otten Bros. Nursery and Landscaping, a large garden center, nursery and landscape design provider. I visited Kelley…
Great Garden Centers: Kelley & Kelley
Visiting Kelley & Kelley Nursery in Long Lake is like a step back in time. The 91-year-old nursery, which is on the old homestead of the Kelley farm, is just…
Great Garden Centers: Sam Kedum Nursery
There are many great garden centers in Minnesota and our area is also host to an abundance of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms. Sam Kedum Nursery and Garden, located just…


















