Yards and Landscaping – Page 16

Gardening in the Snow

By: angiehongmn April 19, 2013

If you’re looking for advice and ideas on how to create an outdoor living space that is attractive and family friendly, provides wildlife habitat, and helps to protect nearby water resources, check out one of two free workshops in Stillwater, upcoming the second week of May.

Community Thread mixes raingardens and volunteerism

By: angiehongmn March 11, 2013

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This May 7, Community Thread and the Brown’s Creek Watershed District will invite area residents to learn more about the 2011 clean water planting project at a special raingarden workshop. During the workshop, participants will learn about raingardens in general – what they are, how they work, and how to plant one – in addition to getting the most recent water quality data for Long Lake, Brown’s Creek and the St. Croix River.

California Dreaming on a Winter Day

By: angiehongmn February 13, 2013

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Though I know that roughly three months stand between me and my first chance at planting, it helps to start dreaming about gardens now while there is still time for planning.

Reading the Landscape

By: angiehongmn January 25, 2013

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This year’s Wild Ones: Design with Nature Conference will be held Sat., March 2 from 8am-4:30pm at the Plymouth Creek Center in Plymouth and the theme is Reading the Landscape.

Spotting raingardens around Stillwater

By: angiehongmn November 20, 2012

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Minnesotans have built an astounding number of clean water raingardens in the past six years, including well over 100 in Stillwater alone.

Woobury Neighborhood Half Way to Clean

By: angiehongmn October 29, 2012

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Altogether, twelve raingardens have been built in the neighborhood this year, and another 13 will be installed next spring.

It takes a neighborhood to save a lake

By: angiehongmn September 5, 2012

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A study conducted by BCWD in 2011 identified 71 homes out of 500 in the Croixwood neighborhood where residential raingardens like those built by Kathy Klonecki and Margaret and Robert Boettcher would most help to keep polluted runoff out of Long Lake.

Gardening to Meet the Neighbors

By: angiehongmn August 21, 2012

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Over the course of the next few days while I planted my new flowers and grasses, I met the neighbors down the street and their little white dog, a woman who had once nannied for a family that lived in our house, and a group of groomsmen that were killing time waiting for a wedding to begin.