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FALL 2023 l VOLUME 151 l NUMBER 3
Table of Contents 41 GARDEN 55 FALL TO-DOS The growing season is winding down but some golden garden moments still await. Here’s what to do as we move into the autumn months. BY SAMANTHA JOHNSON
IN THIS ISSUE 2 Director’s Note 4 MSHS News: Classes and Calendar
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44 Meet Me in the
These grandstand beauties would look good in your garden, too.
Which are the best pumpkins for northern gardeners? Arb researchers tell all. BY JENNIFER RENSENBRINK
Dahlias
BY GAIL BROWN HUDSON
Pumpkin Patch
36 Keystones and
47 Loads of Lovely
A lush garden with a tree and plants below will bring in the bees and more.
Woodbury garden is big, bold and bursting with 700 daylilies and much more. BY GAIL BROWN HUDSON
Soft Landings
Daylilies
BY JENNIFER RENSENBRINK
41 Innovative
But Not New
Local chef moves Indigenous cuisine into modern mainstream.
52 Garden Gallery
Nature inspires this artist’s work and decorates her garden. BY SONI FORSMAN
BY MICHELLE BRUHN
8 Garden Plan: Spring Bulb Garden 10 Ask the Expert: Getting Rid of Canada Thistle 12 Quick Project: Container Refresh 14 Plant Profile: New Ninebarks 16 DIY: Patio Time 18 Garden Solutions: Tomato Tips for Zone 3 20 Kitchen Garden: Lettuce Introduce You 24 Garden Design: Rain Garden Rock Stars 26 Northern Natives: Plant a Pocket Prairie 28 Growing Together: A Giving Garden 60 Before & After: From Blah to Beautiful
ABOUT THE COVER: Dahlias shine in gardens in early fall. Photo by Gail Hudson Northern Gardener l Fall 2023
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MSHS Board of Directors
BECKY SWEE
Mary Hockenberry Meyer, Chair Mary Marrow, Vice Chair Paul Markwardt, Treasurer Renay Leone, Secretary Nan Eserkaln Gail Brown Hudson Judy MacManus Randy Nelson Steve Poppe Jill Rulli Don Smith Robin Trott Laura Wagner Rhys Williams
A NOTE FROM
The Director how can the minnesota state fair be just around the corner? It feels like yesterday that we were distributing plants to our Minnesota Green and Garden-in-a-Box participants, hoping for rain and nurturing seedlings. Summer in the North is swift and sweet! We hope you’ll make the most of the remaining weeks of the garden season, and if you have a chance, come see us in the Horticulture Building at the fair. Our educational display is about cut flower gardening and, of course, we’ll have a supply of garden-pun T-shirts for sale. You can also get a free 30-page northern gardening calendar when you join or renew at the Society membership level at our booth. This issue highlights one of the many gardens around the fair—the dahlia display garden near the Grandstand Plaza. The garden boasts 90 different dahlias and is the brainchild of Del Hampton, a dahlia enthusiast and former member of the hort society board. Read about Del’s fair garden on page 30. Elsewhere in this issue, you’ll find stories on growing lettuce, tomato tips for USDA Zone 3 gardeners, how to install a paver patio around a tree, making art for your garden, and much
more to help you garden better and Pick up your copy of the have fun MSHS 2024 Planning doing it. Calendar at the fair. The fair is nostalgic, too, and this year, I’ll be remembering with gratitude long-time supporters Maureen and Ira Adelman, whose estate recently made a significant gift to support our work. Maureen won a few ribbons in the MSHS Potted Plant Show at the fair and served as chair of the hort society board of directors in 2009. She was an effervescent, smart volunteer who loved gardening and gardeners. Ira, a longtime professor of fisheries and wildlife biology at the University of Minnesota, was her biggest supporter and a true friend to the hort society. As members of our Heirloom Circle, Maureen and Ira remembered the society in their estate plan. Their gift will make a huge difference in our ability to spread the love of gardening to more people. We remember them with fondness and gratitude. Lara Lau-Schommer Executive Director
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MSHS Staff Lara Lau-Schommer, Executive Director Becky Swee, Communications and Marketing Director Diane Duvall, Development Director Mary Ohm, Office Manager and Volunteer Coordinator Betsy Pierre, Advertising Sales Manager
Northern Gardener
Mary Lahr Schier, Editor Debbie Lonnee, Horticultural Editor Julie Jensen, Copy Editor Barbara Pederson, Designer Joe Luca, Newsstand Consultant
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