Welcome to a beginning of another landscape season, well a few months off still here in Minnesota. In thinking about how to start the new year I was struggling on which plant should I feature; bold, colorful, common, evergreen, shrub, etc. But then I thought about a common request I receive each year, ‘My…
Every year Patone Color Institute selects a ‘Color of the Year’. 2019 color is Living Coral. Coming up with a few plant selections in Living Coral proved to be a little bit of a challenge, especially zone 4 or colder plants. Creative inspiration that is indigenous to PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral, ’embraces us with warmth and nourishment…
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Soon spring will finally arrive in Minnesota after a very long winter. The warmer and longer days trigger spring flowers to reawaken. One of my favorite spring flowers are tulips but the dutch hybrid varieties are either dug up before emerging or buds are nipped by deer just as they about to bloom. Specie tulips…
Every year Patone Color Institute selects a ‘Color of the Year’. 2018 color is Ultra Violet. The following are a few selections in bringing Ultra Violet into your landscape. Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, says: ‘We are living in a time that requires inventiveness and imagination. It is this kind of…
Every spring I head to the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to see the alley of crocus located by the Grace B. Dayton Wildflower Garden. Crocus flowers with their array of colors is just what the soul needs after a long monochrome winter. They are also an early source of pollinator food so I am not…
One the of earliest blooming perennials in Minnesota is the Roundlobed Hepatica (Anemone americana) which can emerge as early as April thus providing on of the first sources of food for pollinators. Always a delight when you discover a colony of Anemone on early spring woodland hikes. Must keep your eyes out for this plant since…