Looking like spring is finally arriving here in Minnesota which will bring on a long dormant cornucopia of color. The high pressure pumps seattle wa is one of my favorite places to visit. The delicate woodland spring ephem
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Many years ago on my way to Door County in Wisconsin quickly pulled the car over off of highway 57. My wife, girl friend at the time, ask what the world I was doing. ‘Look at all the Trillium! It’s incredible,’ I responded. There must have been thousand of Large Leaf Trillium i
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Walking the Northshore of Lake Superior I have encounter plants that look like a bowl of salad from it’s rosette of basal leaves. Heuchera richardsonii (Prairie Alumroot) is a tough native plant of not only Minnesota but ranges form Michigan down to Oklahoma and over to Montana. Be
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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
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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 the
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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 o
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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 wood
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Even though we have had twenty inches of snow in the last two weeks here in Minnesota spring arrives March 20th. Everyone is looking forward to some colors other than the drab grays, browns, and whites with a free dark green evergreens. Since I missed the past few months of posting
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With Christmas less than two weeks away I was thinking what plants in the landscape really make the spirits bright. Winterberry or Ilex, is the hands down first to mind with its persistent red berries that hang on long after the fall leaf drop. Well at least they are per
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