The Best Plants for 30 Tough Sites
This bulletin is written in celebration of 30 years of Master Gardener teaching in Minnesota. Here are the BEST plants for 30 tough garden sites: dry shade, slopes, lakeshores, all locations that call for tough, durable plants. Also included are hard-to-find plant lists of special traits and useful characteristics: self-seeding, fragrance, long-blooming, minimal litter trees. And who better to recommend these plants than the University of Minnesota Extension Service Master Gardeners? Drawing on their 30 years of teaching and experience, Master Gardeners list here their selections for these tough sites.
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Minnesota's Top 25 Plants
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Master Gardening program in Minnesota, Master Gardeners have assembled a list of their top twenty-five suggestions for an ornamental garden. These plants are resistant to pests and disease, require little in the way of pruning and no staking. They are the workhorses of the garden with features such as continual bloom, great foliage, winter interest, or fall color which earn them their place on the list. Here are the top picks of some of the top gardeners in Minnesota.
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