Looking for tips on how to design and execute the perfect garden for your home? Follow these four steps: 1. Know Your Space Monitor your yard for a...
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Growing into A Successful Season
We all know that March is a hard one to predict. Are we going to see snowfall or be met with an early spring? I, for one, am hoping for an early...
Wintertime Daydreams of Spring Planting
While there is nothing like a gorgeous winter day in Minnesota, it’s this time of year when I find myself daydreaming of sunny spring days spent in...
By the Yard Opens New Showroom For Outdoor Furniture in Woodbury Lakes
By the Yard designs maintenance-free and sustainable outdoor furniture. Whether gathering friends around a lakeside fire table, entertaining family...
Curb Appeal
Designs by Liberty creates one-of-a-kind floral arrangements. Crafting unique floral arrangements for the doorsteps and porches of Woodbury...
Cabin-friendly Plants and Shrubs
The Minnesota landscape arboretum provides expert tips for keeping cabin plants healthy. Cabin owners know the drill. Head up (or over) to the lake...
Compost 101
Reduce your carbon footprint and better your garden. When I first began composting, I grabbed an ordinary trash can and composting bags from my...
Plants for All
Get out—or discover—your green-thumb. Have you been interested in adding more greenery into your home? Or if you’re like me, you haven’t been very...
How to Use Greenery in Your Winter Home Décor
Here’s your one stop shop for all winter greenery questions. Winter scenes of magnificent evergreens dusted with snow are a hallmark of the holiday...
A Plant Shopping Primer from Gertens
We asked Gertens to explain some of the most popular terms you may hear during plant shopping. Shopping for home and garden plants can often feel...
This Local Farmer and Floral Designer Team Up to Make Beautiful Bouquets
Floral designer Ashley Fox and flower farm owner Susan Rockwood are local and organic. The commercial flower business is about art and science. The...
Woodbury’s Best Nursery Feels like a ‘Secret Garden’
Ready for some new blooms? Visit Whispering Gardens, Woodbury's best nursery/garden center two years running. Woodbury Magazine readers...
Inside Woodbury’s Gardening Wiz Kid’s Thriving Tropical Garden
Woodbury gardener Nick Plank is changing the game. Gardening is a talent most people believe they either have or don’t. But even the most seasoned...
How to Grow a Tropical Garden … in Your Yard in Woodbury
Nick Plank shares some gardening tips for Woodbury residents. This article originally appeared as part of the story Bringing the Tropics to...
Neighbors Bond Over Bountiful Bonsai Gardens
Woodbury neighbors bring Japanese-style gardening to their Minnesota backyards. Woodbury residents Takuzo Ishida and Steve Shor have what many...
Herbs in Your Garden Mean Fresh Flavor in Your Kitchen
Fresh herbs are tasty—and healthy, too. It’s time to start mapping out your garden, and be sure to leave space for herbs. They’re the best way to...
How to Remove Buckthorn and Other Invasive Species
Woodbury gardeners tackle the invasive weed. When Woodbury resident Danae Bruning became concerned about the invasive buckthorn growing in her yard,...
John Bailey, of Bailey Nurseries, Shares His Home Renovation
Fourth-generation grower John Bailey brings his love of the outdoors inside and out at his renovated family home across from Bailey Nurseries. When...