Northern Gardening

I have really never thought of Washington D.C. as a garden lover’s destination, but I found out differently when I visited there last week.  The original purpose of my visit was to attend the Friends of the National Arboretum Cookout fundraiser, which was celebrating Minnesota this year.  A friend lives in D.C. and was on [...]

I hope that at least a few readers of the Northern Gardener magazine have noticed that I no longer write the Garden Basics column. I started writing the column in 2003 and decided to hang it up at the end of last year. There were a lot of reasons why I decided to quit [...]

I just got back from Chicago where I attended the Garden Writers Assn. Regional Meeting at the Chicago Flower and Garden Show. What a wonderful venue and incredible garden show! I do find it ironic though that people think of Minnesota as one of the coldest places in the U.S. because windy Chicago seemed a [...]