Ideas & Inspiration Garden Tips
Whether you are a beginner or veteran gardener, our experts have some how-to tips to keep your garden looking great.
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Fertilizing Your Lawn and Garden
To have the best looking lawn and garden, it is important to give them what they need. Just like humans, plants and grass are living…
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Seed Collecting & Vegetable Gardening
Harvesting Vegetable Seeds Start next year’s plants from this year’s crop! Tomatoes, peppers, beans, and peas are all good candidates for harvesting seed. Cucumbers, melons,…
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Composting
Composting isn’t rocket science â it can be as easy or as involved as you’d like it to be. It can be as simple as…
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Turn yard and kitchen waste into compost!
Composting isn’t rocket science â it can be as easy or as involved as you’d like it to be. It can be as simple as…
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How to Propagate Succulents
Turn one succulent plant into many! Succulent propagation is an easy and fun way to grow more succulents from the ones that you already have.…
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Japanese Beetles are here….now what?
When I was in college a friend gave me a beautiful necklace with a preserved shiny green beetle as the pendant! How cool for a…
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Dracaena Canes
Houseplant 101- A Cane Dracaena is a common, tall houseplant that is easy to grow and striking to behold. A Dracaena can tolerate sun to…
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Mid-Summer Blooming Perennials for Your Minnesota Garden
Summer is in full swing! How is your garden looking? By now, there should be many mid-summer blooms starting to appear! Learn more about ten mid-summer…
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Annabelle Hydrangeas
From sunny locations to shady corners, this traditional shrub is a cottage garden essential. Â The large white pompom flowers cover the plant from late June…
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Enhance Your Curb Appeal with Hydrangea Trees
Give your entrance, yard, or patio an extra burst of color with a dazzling hydrangea tree! Hydrangea trees, in particular âLimelight,’ Quick Fire, and the…
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How to Prevent & Treat Plant Fungus
In mid to late summer, some plant problems, like fungus, can start to become noticeable. Fungal diseases can look ugly, but don’t worry – they are not…
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When & How to Water Your Plants During Summer
The grass doesn’t have to be greener on the other side! Proper watering can help your yard thrive, even in the summer heat. When it…
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Fertilizing Annual Plants
Just like humans, your annual plants are living things that need food to help them grow. Along with sunlight and water, it is important that…
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How to Successfully Grow Tomatoes
Is your lack of green thumb affecting your tomato plants? We are here to tell you that you can have delicious, homegrown tomatoes – even…
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Why You Should Mulch Your Garden
Let’s face it, many of us mulch specifically for curb appeal. It really is amazing to drive up to your home and see your freshly…
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How to Grow Your Own Baby Cakes Blackberry Plant
Baby Cakes, a dwarf and thornless blackberry plant, is the perfect fruit to plant this summer. Not only are these blackberries a delicious summer snack…
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Plants to Attract Butterflies to Your Garden
Grow a garden that brings all the butterflies to the yard! Having plants that butterflies love not only improves your landscape aesthetic – it also…
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Lavender for your garden, for your senses.
Lavender is everywhere these days.  In the local grocery coop we see essential oils and lotions claiming to calm and soothe restless minds and bodies.  Natural…
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May Gardening Calendar
There is MUCH on the garden to do list for May. May is for Mulch as well as planting flowers. May is a busy time…
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Pruning Schedule
Pruning not only helps your garden look good, but it is also essential for the healthy growth and flowering of your plants. Other reasons for…
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How to Plant Bulbs
At Sunnyside Gardens, the vast majority of the bulb plantings we do are completed in the fall in order to have spring flowers. We most…
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How and When to Divide Perennials
You’ve probably heard that you should divide your perennials, but do you know why? There are actually many reasons for this common gardening practice, which…
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What is a Fall Clean-up?
A fall clean-up is an important part of maintaining a healthy garden. Fall clean-ups help to prevent pests and diseases from overwintering in the garden.…
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Easy Care Houseplants
Keeping houseplants is an excellent way to add life to your home or office, but not all of us have the green thumb to keep…
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DIY Landscaping
Hedges for Privacy
Shrubs can be used as a great way to divide spaces and provide privacy from street traffic and neighbors, all while making your yard beautiful.…
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Sun Perennial Garden
Our favorite plants for sunny gardens: Achillea millefolium â Also known as yarrow, this sun-loving perennial has soft, silvery foliage and can grow up to…
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Shade Perennial Garden
Our favorite plants for shade gardens: Hosta â Hostas are very popular shade garden plants, and for good reason! They are extremely hardy and easy…
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DIY Landscaping
Square Foot Gardening
Square foot gardening is a method of planning and organizing a raised vegetable garden by dividing it into small squares. This practice is great for…
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DIY Landscaping
Simple Container Design
Custom containers are a great way to add a pop of color to your deck, patio, and landscape. From creative and bold to simple and…
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Shrub Planting
Want to plant a shrubs in your yard? Here are tips for the best ways to plant. Where to Plant Shrubs Choose a plant for…
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Garden Maintenance Schedule
Do you strive to have the perfect garden year round? Our garden maintenance schedule can help you do just that! Use our calendar and gardening…
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Seed Starting
Starting plants from seed is a great way to save money on flowers, herbs, and vegetable plants. When buying seeds, don’t buy more than you…
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Spring Fever
This crazy spring weather has us in t-shirts one day and sub zero gear the next. Â It’s more mild out than usual and that means…
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Christmas Tree Care
Know how to care for your Christmas Tree. Once you’ve made the journey to the tree lot, walked up and down the rows sizing up…
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Bring your outdoor plants indoors.
So, it’s time to think about saving plants from the cold. Â Here at Sunnyside we track the daily temps, the lows in particular, this time…
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Pumpkin Succulent Care & Propagation
The perfect autumn centerpiece is here! These Pumpkin Succulent Gardens will add beauty to all of your fall celebrations, but the best part may be…
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‘Purple Prince’ Tulip
 Tulips are a gardener’s first sign of spring. Our feature fall planting bulb is a Tulip called ‘Purple Prince’. Consider this a friendly reminder to…
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September’s Stars to Know
We’re regularly looking to enhance our garden style repertoire, with the latest crop of up-and-coming perennials we can do just that. Here are five rising stars to get on…
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Pothos-Houseplant Digest
The easiest plants to care for in the human world are often the ones we remember seeing all through our childhood in friends’ homes, in…
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All plants need food. The ones we eat, look at & walk on.
Feed your yard and garden; it’s hungry and would love for you to adopt a regular dinner schedule.  The thanks you get will be a green…
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Japanese Beatles
Theyyyy’re Baaaack! Â Japanese beetles took a break the last few years from most gardens after suffering great decline in numbers from the COLD 2013-2014 winter.…
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Summer’s got you feeling hungry and thirsty…. if you’re a plant, that is.
It’s time to check in on your container plants and newly planted perennials and shrubs. I feel bad when I see people/plant relationships go…
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Pollinator week! Plant lantana for the nectar and the color!
Recognize pollinators this week by planting something you know they’re going to enjoy. Butterflies and hummingbirds enjoy the color and fragrance of lantana plants. In…
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Pollinator Week–Butterflies, Hummingbirds and Bee Pollinators!
We have always enjoyed planting flowers that attract beautiful butterflies and hummingbirds, and now with the concern turned toward our treasured pollinators, the bees, we are…
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Mulch, what is it good for?
Mulching is a little garden task that has a lot of purpose. Â Let’s face it, many of us mulch specifically for curb appeal. It really…
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DIY Landscaping
Square Foot Gardening=Maximum Yield
Nothing brings me as much joy as the process of growing food in my own yard. For the last handful of years, I have been…
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Container Design
Classic geranium design with some bold accents. If you don’t love geraniums, you should. Â Geraniums are big, bright, drought tolerant and easy to get to…
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Glazed Pottery-Question of the Week
Can you leave ceramic pots, glazed or unglazed, out in the MN winter? Sunnyside Gardens recommends you not leave them out. Â If you have to…
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Invest in some rabbit-proofing
Hey Minnesota gardeners! Anyone have this trouble after last winter? Seems as the snow gets higher, the rabbits snack further up on trees and shrubs…
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Water your evergreens
We are in the middle of a dry Fall, so I must advise everyone that you water your evergreens well this week! El niño-unseasonably warm…
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