r/Minnesota_Gardening

Hi! I’m a medium experience gardener who’s brand new to roses - read about the care here in 4b but never had any. I bought these two pink miracle roses and have had them for about a month while the weather warmed up. Two weeks Inside and they flourished. Two weeks outside waiting for planting and they’ve been doing fine. The one that originally had more mature canes looks gorgeous but the other one - Is this damage from watering? From the liquid fence? Once I plant it in the ground should I prune it away or just let it go and see what happens? Thanks in advance (both the good looking one and the poor looking one in pics).

We planted 2 apple trees last spring and over this winter rabbits got to them. The first 5 pics are of 1 tree and the last 2 are of the second. Curious if there’s any saving them

I have this mulched area in front of my house that I want some flowers in, but have no idea what to plant! I was thinking something taller in the back near the bush and short in the front. I also think I am going to put a bird bath in! Any suggestions on what I should grow? Looking for perennials only as I dont want to be doing this every year.

Edit: this is full sun area. The back corner has some shade from the house but there is also a hose faucet there so I plan the leave the very corner empty so we can access that

I just received my order from Northern Lights Daylilies. I have ordered well over a hundred plants from 5 different suppliers and these are by far the largest and nicest ones I have ever received. They also included several beautiful gift plants that matched my color palette.

Located in Minnesota, about 45 minutes from Prairie Moon.

Has anyone else received their orders of Prairie Moon’s garden kits? How was the plant quality?

My order shipped Friday and was delivered this morning (semi-shade garden) and I opened it up to find soaked plants, with 100% of the foxglove beardtongue infected with septoria leaf spot.

Outside of being a little bedraggled from shipping (which is fine), a few of the plants just generally seem low quality and are suffering from some kind of issue with yellowing and discolored leaves. I already have an established native garden I had planned to add on to, but I am concerned about the leaf spot now spreading and infecting my soil, or that the entire garden kit is now infected. I usually buy my plants from another local farm, but the kits came at a cheaper individual plant price.

I’ve reach out to their customer service, but wanted to see if anyone else had this same issue since they’re a popular retailer here. Just feeling a little disappointed in them.

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I think some people are missing the point of the question about quality issues. Getting plants that are small or roughed up from shipping is fine. I know the plants will bounce back basically immediately. However, it is disappointing to receive plants with an active fungus infection that can potentially kill establishing plants and live in the soil for several years after.

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I have heard back from PM. They didn’t really have much to say or offer anything besides confirming it is indeed a septoria leaf spot infection. They recommend I pick off the spotted leaves and gave instructions on how to prevent the spread and offered the chance at credit if they fail to thrive. I will instead be removing and not planting them and purchasing healthy plants from somewhere else. Not sure why I would risk infecting a new garden bed and then having to essentially help limp along plugs that shouldn’t have been shipped in this state in the first place. Perhaps their satellite location that does these kits and flats needs better quality control to avoid shipping out infected plants.

Edit: It's a Norway Maple. Boooo.

So we have this beautiful silver maple in our yard but year over year, it’s slowly killed all ground cover in a ten foot radius around it. Even the creeping charlie has noped out.

I’m trying to find something that can hang on along this embankment. We even considered landscaping to put in tiered beds, but I imagine with shallow roots, we’d kill the tree by doing that.

I got 5 lbs of UMN microclover mix to overseed, but is that also a fool’s task? Any alternative ideas?

I put down a mix of native wildflowers and not sure if these are part of that mix or something else as they seem to be a bit further along than the wildflower seedlings. Any guesses what they are? Zone 4b if that helps.