MINNESOTA’S HOMEGROWN GARDENING MAGAZINE
Gardener Northern
A MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION
MAY/JUNE 2020
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May/June 2020 Volume 148, Number 3
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Editor’s Note
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MSHS News: Classes,
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Northern Natives: Spotted beebalm, spotted horsemint. BY BETH STETENFELD
contents
A MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PUBLICATION
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Sustainably Scenic With planning, a landscape can be lovely and low maintenance, even in shade.
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Plant to Pick: Endless Summer® Summer Crush® Bigleaf hydrangea.
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DIY: Make your own concrete pot. BY ERIC JOHNSON
Follow these recipes for containers that thrive in the shade.
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Public Faces / Private Spaces
Pollinators: Flowers flaunt it. BY RHONDA FLEMING HAYES
Easy strategies to help you fashion your garden for hospitality and seclusion. BY DIANE MCGANN
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Kitchen Garden: The humble radish.
BY DEBBIE LONNEE
7 Stylish Container Gardens BY MICHELLE MERO RIEDEL
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Creeping Charlie.
BY SAMANTHA JOHNSON
BY GAIL BROWN HUDSON
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Garden Solutions: BY LAURA SCHWARZ
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Ensuring a Rosy Future
By Design: Choosing color. BY DIANE MCGANN
Beautiful, resilient roses emerge from tough trials. BY RANDY NELSON AND DAVID ZLESAK
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Gardener’s Market
Hooray for Horseradish
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Northern View
Tame horseradish’s vigor and treat yourself to its heat all year.
Battling cute.
BY JENNIFER RENSENBRINK
BY CAROL J. MICHEL
Better Basils Choices are as abundant as the flavor in these disease-resistant basils. BY THERESA MIESELER
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Toad lily (Tricyrtis hirta) brings pattern and texture to the shade garden. Photo by Gail Hudson Brown Northern Gardener l May/June 2020
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