Fall: A Great Time for Native Planting
Cooler mornings, yellow-tinged leaves—the first signs of fall are in the air. As summer’s blooms begin to wane and the warm hues of goldenrods and grasses take their place, it… Read More →
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Native Plants That Grow in Maple Shade
Maple trees can be wonderful denizens of the urban landscape, growing quickly to provide shade in the summer and glorious colors in the fall. But many home gardeners are challenged… Read More →
Evolution of a Yard: Conventional Turf to All Native Plants
For Dana Boyle, a Twin Cities metro resident, a Lawns to Legumes grant was part of a yard transformation which had been percolating over several years, and which she writes… Read More →
Sacred Space Gardens
Sacred Space Gardens is a twin-cities based sustainable garden and landscape company. Our mission is to increase wildlife habitat through climate-wise gardening practices. We provide garden design, coaching, maintenance, and… Read More →
Pocket Plantings
Pocket Plantings are a great way to introduce biodiversity in your yard. Starting small makes the project more manageable. It’s also easier to care for your garden as it establishes.… Read More →
Mother Earth Gardens
If you are looking for a garden center specializing in organic gardening, native plants, eco-friendly products and sustainably grown plants, you’ve found the place! In the spring and summer, we… Read More →
Turf Alternatives
Do you have areas in your yard where grass doesn’t want to grow? A native garden may be the solution.
Rain Gardens
Raingardens serves as water filters collecting polluted stormwater before it reaches our waters.
Why Plant for Clean Water?
The problem Rain is natural. Before we built roads and buildings, it would fall on deep-rooted native plants that helped it infiltrate into the ground, to be naturally cleaned and cooled before entering the water table. As we’ve developed the landscape, we’ve also dramatically altered the path those raindrops follow. Now they fall on roofs,…
Colorful, no-fuss raingardens in Savage
Diane Hrabe Jason and Nancy Rich of Savage like to garden much more than they like to mow. So instead of grass, their yard includes a number of basins of… Read More →