Naturally Prevent Lawn Burn: Keep Your Grass Green and Healthy
Having a lush green lawn is a source of pride for many homeowners. However, one common problem that can affect the health and appearance of your grass is lawn burn.…
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Lawn Burn Caused by Dog Urine: How to Deal With It
Having a furry friend is a joy, but it can also come with a few challenges. One of those challenges is dealing with the unsightly lawn burn caused by dog…
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Winter Care Tips for Your Roses: What to Do and What Not to Do
It has really been a pleasant experience walking through my fine city this fall and seeing the various gardens, especially those where the owner has made the effort to plant…
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Barking Up the Right Tree: Colorful Bark for the Winter Landscape
The winter charm of deciduous trees and shrubs is often overlooked, as most people believe that beauty is found only in leaves and flowers. But when one gazes more intimately…
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My Best Friend is a Nut: Hardy Nuts for Northern Homeowners
One of my favorite aspects of gardening is the idea of growing my own food, all by myself and with me fully in control of the inputs into the growing…
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Showy Spring Shrubs for The North
There is certainly nothing more refreshing after a long, cold winter than the wondrous sight of the first blossoms of spring bursting forth from bare branches. For homeowners who want…
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5 Ways to Perk Up the November Landscape: Suggestions Homeowners Can Use Today!
Once again we find ourselves in the throes of November, the most non-descript of months from a landscape perspective. Of all the twelve months of the year, November suffers the…
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Planting Revenge on Your Neighbors Plants You and Your Neighbors Will Want to Stay Away From
So you’re a gardener and you have a bone to pick with your neighbor. You’ve considered applying Nair to his cat, but you don’t have the heart to be cruel…
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Berried in the Snow: Colorful Fruit in the Winter Landscape
As a landscape architect, a creative way that I have looked at designing color into the winter landscape is through the use of trees and shrubs with colorful berries that…
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Competition In The Garden: Exploring The Relationships Between Plants
Every seasoned gardener knows that a garden is an ever-changing environment; what it starts out as in the beginning is rarely what it is a few years down the road.…
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Storing Tender Bulbs Through Winter: Answers to Questions from Northscapers Like You!
Fall is always a busy time of the year for northern gardeners, and that’s no exception here at North. Over the past few weeks, we have been inundated with questions…
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Hardy Trees for the Northern Plains: Promising New Releases from NDSU
For too long, northern homeowners and home landscapers have had to make sacrifices when it came to hardy trees and shrubs. The palette at their disposal was limited at best,…
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Tropical-Looking Plants for Northern Landscapes: 5 “Must-Haves” for the Creative Designer
We’ve all fantasized about it at some time; a tropical vacation away on some remote island, lazing on a white sandy beach overlooking a tranquil azure blue ocean, and lush…
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Landscaping the North Side of a House: Taking Gardening to the Dark Side
Fellow Northscapers, let me take you on a journey to the Dark Side. Yes, we’re going to boldly charge into that part of the yard that strikes more fear in…
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Build Your Own Raised Island Planter – Part 2
And now for the second and final part of this home landscaper’s guide to building a raised island planter for your yard, that will be the envy of the neighborhood.…
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Build Your Own Raised Island Planter – Part 1
Some of the best home landscapes just stand apart from the rest, and landscapers and gardeners are always asking me how they can get theirs to look as impressive. There…
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Making Sense of Botanical Plant Names – Good Reasons for an Unreasonable System
At some point in their lives, everyone will be exposed to botanical plant names. People generally know various trees, shrubs, and flowers by their common names, but invariably they will…
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Taking Gardening to the Vertical – Designing With Vines and Climbers
Vines are among the most wonderful plants garden artists have at their disposal. They are amazingly versatile, giving our landscapes a vertical component where trees and shrubs just won’t do…
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10 Tips for Starting Seeds Indoors – Germination Basics
Getting ready to plant those seeds you brought back from the garden center or that have just arrived from your order? It’s true that nature has worked hard at ensuring…
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Understanding Ground Covers, How to Cover Large Spaces With Plants
A ground cover is essentially the flooring for the rooms of your outdoor living spaces. It’s the variety of surface materials that cover the earth and dirt which are the…
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