Tag: landscaping

A residential rain garden in Minneapolis.

How to Maintain Your Rain Garden: Simple Steps to a Beautiful, Water-Friendly Landscape

So you’ve finished building a rain garden. You feel proud — and rightfully so! You know that rain gardens help filter stormwater runoff before it enters local lakes and streams, […]
August 23, 2018
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The Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture, surrounded by mounds of dirt.

A Part of the Sculpture Garden You Won’t See in 2017

Back in May, we wrote about breaking ground on the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden’s $10 million reconstruction effort. The new sculpture garden, which is set to re-open in June 2017, will […]
October 21, 2016
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A bee collecting pollen from a flower.

Gardening for Pollinators: Six Questions for Heather Holm

Pollinators are in the news — partly because it’s National Pollinator Week, but more importantly because whole populations of bee and butterfly species are in decline. Our food chain depends […]
June 23, 2016
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