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Northern Gardener Brought to you by the Minnesota Horticultural Society. Growing gardeners in USDA Hardiness Zones 3, 4 & 5 since 1866. Publisher of Northern Gardener magazine.🍎

From buds to stems, lavender is as useful as it is fragrant. Find out its many home, beauty and culinary uses in our sum...
06/03/2026

From buds to stems, lavender is as useful as it is fragrant. Find out its many home, beauty and culinary uses in our summer issue.

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Want to boast about your cold-hardy gardening habits? Tell us what makes you a northern gardener in the comments and we'...
06/02/2026

Want to boast about your cold-hardy gardening habits? Tell us what makes you a northern gardener in the comments and we'll randomly pick one person to win our brand new t-shirt design! Comment by Friday, June 5 at noon for a chance to win an I'm a Northern Gardener T-shirt.

This shirt is also available in our shop—wear it proudly when out plant shopping or community gardening for a great conversation starter.

Online store: https://mshs.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/mshs/giftstore.jsp

Don't forget to enroll in one of our membership levels and help us grow our community of northern gardeners sharing and learning cold-climate tips across the region!

Become a member: https://northerngardener.org/membership/become-a-member/

To win, you must be 18+ and a U.S. resident. The winner will be drawn randomly on Friday, June 5 at 5 PM. We will DM you directly if you are the winner and mail your Tshirt to you within a week of receiving your address.

This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with, Meta, Instagram or Facebook.

It's been exactly one month since our distribution weekend for Garden-in-a-Box! Our favorite part of these days or seein...
06/01/2026

It's been exactly one month since our distribution weekend for Garden-in-a-Box! Our favorite part of these days or seeing participant's smiling faces. Here's to the many gardening smiles to come this season!

P.S. Today is the last day for us to hit our spring fundraising goal of $50k by midnight to continue funding important programs like these. Will you help us cross the finish line? Visit https://northerngardener.org/support/ to chip in today!

A handful of you-pick lavender at Lavender Bluff Farm. See our summer issue for the best hardy varieties to grow in the ...
05/30/2026

A handful of you-pick lavender at Lavender Bluff Farm. See our summer issue for the best hardy varieties to grow in the north! Story by Jamie Hudelson Miller.

📸: Tracy Walsh Photography

Ah, nothing compares to the scent of lilacs... literally!👃the delicate aroma of lilacs is notoriously difficult to prese...
05/29/2026

Ah, nothing compares to the scent of lilacs... literally!👃
the delicate aroma of lilacs is notoriously difficult to preserve authentically, meaning most lilac-scented perfumes, soaps, or lotions use manmade approximations of the fragrance instead. 🪻
Learn more about lilac varieties and care in our Flashback Friday article, "Lilacs: recurring Symbol of Spring" from the May 1977 edition of our magazine.
🔗: https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll64:31121 #?xywh=0%2C-133%2C2643%2C1951&cv=3

A sea of wildflowers and lavender turns these Mississippi river bluffs into a pollinator and you-pick paradise with a vi...
05/27/2026

A sea of wildflowers and lavender turns these Mississippi river bluffs into a pollinator and you-pick paradise with a view at Lavender Bluff Farm. See the full farm feature in our summer issue.

📸: Tracy Walsh Photography

05/26/2026

Becoming a member with the Minnesota Horticultural Society is more than a year's worth of benefits. It's ongoing cold-climate gardening education and a sustainable way to support your community through our nonprofit's outreach programs.

Learn more at https://northerngardener.org/membership/become-a-member/ today!

It's time for the May edition of Vintage Veggies!This month, we're highlighting an underrated vegetable from the garden:...
05/24/2026

It's time for the May edition of Vintage Veggies!
This month, we're highlighting an underrated vegetable from the garden: fennel! 💚

Fennel is known for its mellow, anise-like flavor and refreshing crunch. Often overlooked in American markets, fennel is both native to and quite popular in Europe, where it features frequently in local cuisine.

For our monthly archive feature, we've chosen an article on fennel from the May 2001 edition of Northern Gardener® Magazine— an issue published 25 years ago, this month! 🥳

Want to learn how to grow and use fennel in your garden?
Read the fennel feature and more from the May 2001 edition of Northern Gardener.
🔗https://collection.mndigital.org/catalog/p16022coll64:38282 #?cv=&xywh=-261%2C412%2C2115%2C1561

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05/23/2026

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'Annabelle' hydrangeas are a fitting frame for Yoshi Motoyama's 1880s home. View his full garden feature in our summer i...
05/23/2026

'Annabelle' hydrangeas are a fitting frame for Yoshi Motoyama's 1880s home. View his full garden feature in our summer issue.

Photo: Tracy Walsh Photography

P.S. Need some tips on where to find unique art to take your garden to the next level? Check out our bonus article from the summer issue, available to members only: https://northerngardener.org/garden-art-sources/

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