The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum opened its doors for Passport to Spring, including nine displays that each featured an international country; a French-inspired glass garden house and 26 pieces by sculptor Nick Legeros.
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To promote a second, late-summer flower show, cut back, shear or remove flower spikes from the following early blooming perennials: catmint, geraniums, salvia and delphiniums.
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The Bridezilla stories have become clichés at this point—a stressed out bride yelling at her mother and her best friends, hysterical because the flowers are all wrong or the seating chart is messed up or …
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Just when high schoolers and college students think the unbridled freedom of summer and all it offers is before them, a parent reminds/commands, “You need a summer job.”
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Long before the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum took shape, an immigrant from Switzerland, Theodore Bost, arrived. Bost purchased the land from a railroad engineer in 1855.
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Dave St. Peter is still having a ball.
Sitting high above the left-field corner of Target Field, St. Peter is reminiscing about his long tenure with the Minnesota Twins—from an intern in 1990 to the president and chief executive officer today.
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In 2017, there were 12 boating fatalities and 23 non-boating drownings in Minnesota, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Statistics like this make it critical for all of us to know how to swim.
[Garden]
Looking for low-maintenance plants that can feed pollinators, improve soil, look good and grow with no special care? Native grasses have all these benefits and can enhance your garden while adding shelter and food for wildlife. However, deer and rabbits do not usually feed on native grasses.
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Sitting down with Lane Patten and Holly Berg for an hour over coffee gives clear insight into how their food blog, With Two Spoons, came to be.
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After all these years of forecasting the good, the bad and the ugly in Minnesota, Paul Douglas is still thunderstruck by the weather. “It’s different every day,” says the Twin Cities meteorologist and media personality. “No two days, no two storms are identical. Every day is a new creation.
