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Check Out These Spring Landscaping Tips

Are you looking to beautify your yard? St. Louis Park Environmental Coordinator Jim Vaughan led a spring landscaping workshop Tuesday to teach residents about subjects like invasive species, using native plants and pruning tips.

March 22, 2013

Design-Build

Are You Ready for Spring?

It’s been a long winter, no matter where you live. But with spring technically here (even if there’s still snow on the ground), it’s time to oil up your landscape services. But where to start? Hear from landscapers and other industry experts on spring landscape tips, such as maintenance techniques, when to water and information […]

March 22, 2013

Business

Colder Temperatures Impacting Northern Landscaping, Gardening Businesses

On the first day of Spring, colder temperatures may be having an impact on landscaping and gardening businesses. Eagle Creek Nursery has seen less people, stopping by.

March 21, 2013

Landscaping equipment

Equipment matters: Cut back on down time

Here are four tips to enhance the life of your mower. As the icy chill of winter starts to melt away, welcoming in the green of spring, it’s time for landscapers to pull off the tarps and gas up their lawn mowers. But before they crank up the machine and lower the blade, they should […]

March 4, 2013

Business

Lack of Impatiens a Blow to Gardeners

For decades, it’s been a rite of spring. You hop in the car, head for the nearest garden center and load up on impatiens, the best-selling, candy-colored annuals that thrive in shade, mound up like half a beach ball, and bloom their heads off till frost, asking little in return.

February 12, 2013

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Colorful Bark in Winter

Everyone knows that flowers provide color in the garden, particularly through spring and summer. As blooms become less abundant in autumn, fall color of deciduous plants and trees becomes more prominent. After most plants are finished blooming, and most of the fall color is gone, the garden may seem relatively bleak for winter. Only evergreen foliage remains. This is when plants that exhibit colorful bark or bare twigs really get noticed.

January 15, 2013

Business

Prep Grass for Spring

The new year is here – and to ensure you and your lawn are prepared for the upcoming year, Grass Seed USA and other natural-turf specialists have come together to develop an easy 12-month lawn-care plan to help guide your lawn maintenance throughout 2013.

January 14, 2013

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Now’s the Time to Get Power Tools Ready for Spring

You can avoid the silent treatment from your power tools in the spring by providing some tender loving care before storing them in the fall. Gasoline-powered garden gear isn’t guaranteed to start when it’s left idle for extended periods of time, say 30 days or more. A thorough cleaning is essential.

December 4, 2012

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Keeping the Winter Landscape Interesting

While many homeowners gladly embrace the joy of gardening in spring and summer, many turn their backs on the outside of their house as the weather cools. It may not be as easy to surround your home with colorful flowers and greenery in the winter, but landscape designers and home remodeling experts can recommend ways to improve the appeal of your grounds even when they are hard with frost.

November 16, 2012

Business

Flower Bulbs are Back

This may be hard to believe, but flower bulbs have an image problem. When most people think of flower bulbs, they think of the brown, onionlike orbs sold out of bins at garden centers and hardware stores in fall—not the dazzling bursts of colorful crocuses, daffodils and hyacinths that announce the arrival of spring.

November 2, 2012