Nature's Way Landscape Nursery - Garden Party Open House
Friday, May 4th through Sunday, May 6th

May is spring color month! Celebrate spring color with Nature's Way Landscape Nursery. Preview new plants and get ideas for your Spring planting and landscape projects.

For more information:
1770 - 75th St. NE
Rochester, MN 55906
507-289-3039

Visit www.nwlandscape.com for classes and other events.

Save $5 and we'll add 2 months FREE onto your membership or subscription when you give a membership or subscription during May & June! And, each new person's name will go into a drawing for a Toro Electric Super Blower Vac!

Share the benefits of over 140 years of northern gardening experience with family and friends this May & June!

We'd love to help you over the phone or you can submit your gift via our web site. We will even send a personalized gift card to the recipient. Subscription cost $29 vs. $34 and membership $55 vs. $60. Don't forget, new members also receive a $25 merchandise credit with White Flower Farm.

Subscribers, remember that you can upgrade to a membership and receive discounts with over 100 nurseries throughout the state! Just in time for purchasing your annuals, perennials and trees. You can view the list of nurseries on our website under the discount partners link. Upgrades from a subscriber to a member also receive the $25 merchandise credit with White Flower Farm. Give us a call and we'd be happy to help you over the phone: 651-643-3601 or 1-800-676-6747.

Come to Duluth for a great opportunity to learn quality exhibiting and judging skills! The class is May 19th, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with testing from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. for those who want to become judges.

Phyllis Andrews will teach design and give helpful ideas for upcoming flower shows, and Betty Patche will teach horticulture.

Don't miss this chance to improve your knowledge and skills!

Contact Gerri Benassi for more information and to register: 218-624-3939. Registration is $24 plus the price of the Exhibiting and Judging Handbook if you don't already have it. Please register by May 11.

Upcoming Classes:
Living Wreath Class for Kids, Tuesday, May 8, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. $30 per child - includes all expenses. Location: Fighting Iris, 1339 Pascal Street North, St. Paul, for directions see www.ffiris.com. Create a beautiful and original "living wreath" garden packed full of different types of herb plants. Easy to maintain and fun to make! Perfect for ages 4 or older. Class limit is 8.

Proven Performing Plants for Your Pots, Tuesday, May 15, 6:30 to 8 p.m. $15 for members, $20 for nonmembers. Center for Northern Gardeners, 1755 Prior Ave N, Falcon Heights. Everyone wants beautiful, healthy, colorful container gardens. If you're a first-time gardener or novice, it's hard to know where to begin. Attend this class and get some helpful insights!

Searching for Children's Gardens
Do you know of a fantastic garden that's geared towards kids? One of our missions is to bring youth back to gardening and the earth. So please send us information on your favorite garden to take youngsters! Email Vicky Vogels at VickyV@northerngardener.org.

Thanks so much to everyone who donated their time and talents to create the MSHS quilt. It truly captures the spirit of gardening and horticulture!

Those of you who have been active through March of 2007, be on the lookout for your Huiras Coupon for money off a purchase at Huiras Greenhouse in May. We hope you enjoy finding this new spot for gorgeous annual plants.

This straight-forward guide celebrates thirty years of Master Gardener teaching in Minnesota. It shares the best plants for growing in thirty tough sites, such as: dry shade, slopes, lakeshores, and other locations that require resilient plants. Including hard-to-find plant lists of special traits and useful characteristics, this book gives you the knowledge to successfully conquer any difficult planting location.
Edited by Mary Meyer, Deb Brown and Mike Zins, Extension Horticulturists, University of Minnesota.

To purchase this and other titles, call or stop in at the MSHS bookstore.

Support MSHS by supporting Northern Gardener Magazine's advertisers! Be sure to use the Bachman's coupon on the May/June issue of Northern Gardener; you're shopping for plant material anyway, you might as well receive two FREE gifts from Bachman's when you spend $10 or more!

And of course, MSHS members receive their 15% discount on regularly priced items (excluding annuals) when they present their card.