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Sip & Shop at Sunnyside for the 2024 Holiday Season
Kickstart your holiday shopping & decorating with a Sunnyside sip & shop! November snuck up on us, just like it always does. We’re transitioning from…
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Best Use of Straw Bales
The best use of straw bales- Straw is traditionally used to add a protective layer to perennial beds for winter. MN can have a mix…
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Thank You & Rock the Sunnyside Gardens Recap
Thank you to all our friends, family, neighbors and fellow gardeners who showed up to this past Sunday to rock out at Sunnyside Gardens as…
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Why We Love Perennial Mums: Mammoth & Minnesota Mums
Not all mums are lucky enough to be true perennials, but both Mammoth mums and Minnesota mums are hardy enough to stand in that category!…
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Join Us for Sunnyside Gardens Annual Summer Party!
We invite you to our annual end-of-summer party to celebrate: Rock the Sunnyside Gardens! Summer is starting to wrap up and fall transitions are happening…
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Echinacea is a Fan Favorite
Echinacea, or the coneflower, is a fan-favorite perennial around here! Here is a short list of reasons why we love this flower and tips for…
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Earth Day 2023: How the Sunnyside Team Invests in our Planet
Happy Earth Day 2023! Today is a reminder to both appreciate this earth that we’ve been given, but also of our responsibility to care for…
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How to Make Your Pumpkins Last Longer
Regardless of how much technology progresses, how many lights you slap-up, or how many fake spider webs you spread oh-so-carefully in your well-kept shrubs, your…
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Milky Spore-Organic Control for Japanese Beetles
10 years worth of Grub control!!-That’s insane! Japanese beetles can destroy your plants in the landscape and their larval stage can also trash your lawn.…
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Fall Grass Seeding
Fall grass seeding may be on your mind and we have a few expert tips to help you along. The MN lawn that survives through…
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Three Best Succulents for Dorm Rooms
I picked three of my favorite succulents for dorm rooms. Having lived in several dorm rooms and apartments in my life I can attest to…
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trill–true & real
It is with great pleasure that we get to introduce to you a lifestyle boutique that has sprouted within the walls of Sunnyside Gardens.
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Container of the moment!
Always a favorite, this combo is sure to impress and it’s easy to care for. Â The main ingredients are a colorful croton, a red leaf…
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PINK POPCORN Blueberry!!
Just arrived at sunnyside is a tasty blueberry that isn’t anything BLUE but is everything you want in a berry. Â Sweet. Â Hardy. Â Self-Pollinating. Pink and…
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Itoh Peony
A note from Monrovia Growers about Itoh Peonies. Named for Toichi Itoh, the first hybridizer to successfully cross a tree Peony with an herbaceous Peony…
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Hanging Baskets
It’s spring in Minnesota, which means we’re wearing a sweater one day, and flip flops the next. At the garden center, we are full-speed ahead…
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Spring Container With Hellebores
This cool weather, cottage garden style piece of art is available now at Sunnyside. Â Lenten Roses, or Hellebores bloom in early early spring showing off…
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What’s Blooming in the Perennial Lot?
Here at Sunnyside, our perennial plant selection is just as varied as our beloved annual inventory. Some tall, some stout; attention demanding or a bit…
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Perennial of the Year
Long regarded by the Sunnyside staff as one of THE top shade loving perennials, were are happy that Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ is finally getting its…
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Tropicals!
Nothing energizes us here at Sunnyside like our first tropical plant shipment. All of a sudden our once dormant greenhouses come alive and burst with the cool flavor that tropicals bring.Â
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Pansymonium
We are all starting to feel it – the cool air of winter being blown away by the warm breath of spring; the activity of…
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