Links & How To’s

Plant catalogs & databases
Bailey Nurseries

Easy Elegance Roses

Endless Summer Hydrangeas

Monrovia

Perennial Resources, design & encyclopedia

Terra Nova Nurseries Perennials A-Z

Walters Gardens, Inc. Perennial Library

United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database

University of Minnesota Plant Info, collection of plant databases

Fresh Cut Flowers
Drummers Floral

Len Busch Roses

Bloomin’ Blog & Ask a Bloomin’ Expert

How To…
How to grow houseplants

Houseplants, care, culture

Seed Starting

Backyard Conservation, tree selection

Home Vegetable Gardening, Kitchen Gardens

Mulch, what, when and how much?

Plant a Shrub

Plant a Tree

Pruning Trees & Shrubs

Recycle Plastic Pots & Trays

Sketch a garden design blueprint

Sustainable Landscape Info… design, plant selection, implementation & maintenance

When to prune

Water Gardens
Aquascape

North American Water Garden Society

Protect against invasive species

PondCare

Gardening Resources
American Horticulture Society

Backyard Habitat for Birds & Other Wildlife

Diagnose plant diseases

Gardening with kids for parents and teachers

Iowa State University Extension

Minnesota Horticulture Society

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

National Gardening Association

Shrub selection tool

United States Department of Agriculture Home Gardening

University of Minnesota Extension Gardening

Products, Ideas & more Resources
Bonide, disease, insect & pest repellants and controls

Como Park Conservatory, St. Paul

Espoma, Natural Gardening Solutions

Garden Minnesota
Many of our plants are homegrownCheck us out in the Minnesota Grown Directory

North Star Stone & Masonry (Mankato Brick), landscape hardscape supplies

SunGro Horticulture

Versa-Lok, retaining wall systems idea book