When I bought my last house, there was a half-dead rose bush, some stumps of dead arborvitaes and a lot of ugly fencing. I sold it last year after three and a half years, having created a garden in the front that I was rather pleased with. There are lots of tricks, rules and guidelines to making gardens, but here are three things that I feel helped me the most in creating this garden ... >> read article
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A Plant Collector’s Landscape Design: Three Lessons Learned
by Joseph Tychonievich
When I bought my last house, there was a half-dead rose bush, some stumps of dead arborvitaes and a lot of ugly fencing. I sold it last year after three and a half years, having created a garden in the front that I was rather pleased with. There are lots of tricks, rules and guidelines to making gardens, but here are three things that I feel helped me the most in creating this garden ... >> read article
Updating an Overgrown Landscape
by Lisa Steinkopf
As some landscapes age, they begin to look overgrown and unattractive. Many times the landscaping was done incorrectly, resulting in the need for a new landscape sooner than would have otherwise been needed ... >> read article
Lawn Care for Minnesota Landscapes
Has grass gotten a bad rap?
by Diana Rankin
Deb Brown, garden writer and retired University of Minnesota Extension horticulturist, thinks maybe so. In a newspaper article a while back, she made some very good arguments for having a yard and garden with at least some turfgrass. Here’s her thinking:Having a lawn is less work than maintaining a small prairie in a front yard ... >> read article
Street Trees are Money Trees
by Patsy Bell Hobson
Neighborhood street trees increase property value, save energy and help with storm water retention. They also create shady, walkable sidewalks ... >> read article
Topiary Gardens
by Denise Schreiber
Ultimately, gardening is the act of ‘controlling’ plants and shaping the landscape to our own designs. Topiary takes ‘gardening’ to a higher level. Topiary, the art of training live plants to grow into a myriad of shapes and forms by clipping foliage and branches has been practiced since Roman times. The word itself comes from the word topiarius, a description of an ornamental landscape gardener or the creator of topia ... >> read article
Create a Faux Rock Garden on a Hillside or Berm
by Scott Beuerlein
Steeply sloped areas don’t have to be ‘trouble spots.’ Hillsides can be turned into gorgeous rock gardens. Here are some tips. >> read article
