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Posted 11:25 AM 11/3/2011

Plants are the easiest way to bring birds into your landscape, but you may want to increase the number and diversity of winged visitors by supplementing with a few feeders.

And how about getting the whole family involved by making a few of the feeders yourself.

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Posted 9:12 AM 10/27/2011

Mums and asters are favorite fall flowers, but there are many more fall beauties to choose from.Autumn Joy is probably one of the best known sedums, but there are lots of cultivars that reach their peak in fall.

Consider Angelina sedum. Its chartreuse foliage looks good all season (More) • Video (1)

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Posted 8:28 AM 10/13/2011

Fall has many of us scrambling to protect plants from frost, move tropicals indoors or finish harvesting our vegetables. Be sure you collect a few green tomatoes to ripen indoors.

You can pick any tomatoes that are starting to show color before the killing frost and finish ripening them (More) • Video (1)

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Posted 12:24 PM 10/10/2011

Add a little food, shelter and water for the birds and wait for the year round entertainment to begin.

I like to use my landscape as a self-filling bird feeder. Include nectar plants to attract hummingbirds. The shade loving fuchsia attracts both hummingbirds and butterflies. The (More) • Video (1)

Posted 11:58 AM 5/13/2010 by Jan Cashman - Cashman's Nursery

During this time of the year, I am glad I have lots of perennial flowers emerging in my beds.   Planting a lot of annuals every spring is time consuming.   After reading articles in gardening magazines, consulting our wonderful staff, and visiting a botanical garden with a (More)

Posted 11:57 AM 5/13/2010 by Jan Cashman - Cashman's Nursery

Roses are everyone's favorite flower. Their perfect shape, intense colors, and heady fragrance are unparalleled.   In spite of the fact that we don't live in rose growing country, there are quite a few gardeners around here that grow beautiful roses.  How do they do it?  It (More)

Posted 11:56 AM 5/13/2010 by Jan Cashman - Cashman's Nursery

In the past, all herbaceous (non-woody) plants were called "herbs", but today the word has come to mean a plant whose parts are used for medicine, seasonings, or scent.   Herbs are easy to grow; deer and insects avoid them.  Used in cooking, they make food taste better.   (More)

Posted 11:55 AM 5/13/2010 by Jan Cashman - Cashman's Nursery

Since I was a child, I have been around blueberries.  When I was growing up in eastern Minnesota, my mother, sister and I picked wild blueberries in the area's woods. (We were always watching for bears, who liked the blueberries, too.)  I didn't mind the work of picking them, because I (More)