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Great Plants for Northern Gardens: Day 19 — Cardinal Flower
For a damp site, cardinal flower is a great choice for attracting hummingbirds. Last summer, I was visiting a friend whose backyard garden slopes down to meet the reedy shore of a small lake. Not far...
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Great Plants for Northern Gardens: Day 20 — Balloon Flower
Bees also enjoy the blooms of balloon flower. While many plants are regarded as perennials, there are some that are decidedly more “perennial” than others. Balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorous) is...
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Great Plants for Northern Gardens: Day 29, Globe Flower
Trollius in bloom. (Wikipedia image) Globe flower (Trollius) is one of my favorite garden perennials because of its adaptability. It grows well in both part shade and sunny borders, and though it...
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Preserving the Harvest: Recipes from Our Contributors
Nothing says fall like homemade apple pie! Our Northern Gardener writers and photographers are all very good at what they do, and many of them are also really good cooks. If you check out their...
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Awards for Northern Gardener
Like most folks who publish magazines or blogs or books, we at Northern Gardener most enjoy hearing comments and compliments from our readers. “That feature really helped me figure out how to design my...
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Will You Delay Seed Starting This Year?
A blog reader recently asked if seed starters should delay their seed starting this year because of the long, cold winter. In Minnesota, we’ve had the worst winter in terms of the “misery index” since...
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Learn Tips for Successful Seed Starting at MSHS
Have you ever wanted to try starting herbs, vegetables or annual flowers from seed but not been sure where to start? Or maybe you tried indoor seed starting but were disappointed with the results. MSHS...
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Epic Tomatoes: Book Review and Giveaway!
This review originally appeared in the March/April 2015 issue of Northern Gardener magazine. With Epic Tomatoes, How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time (Storey Publishing, 2015), Craig...
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