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If your Hosta have been chomped, your perennial beds are missing flowers, or your plants are chewed up, we can help! Learn how to keep your garden safe from rabbits, beetles, and bugs.

Mosquito-Repellent Plants
No one likes having to share their patio with mosquitoes. Keeping them away is as simple as growing mosquito-repellent plants! You can plant mosquito repelling…
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Top 9 Perennials You Can Use to Start a Perennial Garden
Looking to grow a garden but not sure where to start? You’ve come to the right place! Read about the top nine perennials you can…
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10 Plants You Didn’t Know Repel Mosquitoes
âMinnesota has two seasons, winter and road construction.â
âWe’ve got 20,000 lakes when it rains.â
âThe state bird? Mosquito.â

How to Prepare Trees for Winter
Winters in Minnesota are not only hard on humans, they are tough on plants, too. Even fully hardy plants can be affected by a variety of stressors during the winter.
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So many rabbits!
At any given moment there are more rabbits in my yard than anyone could successfully shake a stick at. For me, the concern is winter…
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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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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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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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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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Japanese Beetles- Pest no more!
If you have had problems in the past with beetles, or you can already see them helping themselves to your plants, what are your options?…
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Prevent Japanese Beetles- here’s how!
Did you have a problem with Japanese Beetles last growing season? NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR TO GET RID OF THEM BEFORE THEY EMERGE! …
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Sawfly Sighting!
They’re BAACK! Early Spring, early pests. If you are the proud parent of a Mugo Pine, Swiss Stone Pine, Scotch Pine or Austrian Pine, Look…
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Beetle Mania!
Japanese Beetles are in town! Have you noticed some of your garden plants may look chewed and lacey? Or have you seen clusters of flying…
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