Outdoor Living

September is here, and fall draws near. Soon enough, trees will adopt their fiery fall hues, lattes will become increasingly pumpkin-spiced, and yards will fill with premature Halloween decorations. Fall is a time of...

With outdoor kitchens, cooking is part of the party.

The first full week of May is always National Wildflower Week, a time when most of the country is ablaze with springtime blossoms in a riot of yellows, pinks, reds, blues, purples, and whites....

The longtime Macy's Flower Show designer, Bachman's florals, has teamed up with Galleria on a new flower show.

Photos courtesy Southview DesignThe scene is set for summer in the cities: Play it safe and avoid exposing yourself and your family members to COVID-19 by staying home and enjoying your front and back...

The DIY approach to re-envisioning your interior décor, a room or home remodel, or landscape design has never been more at your fingertips than now. Home and landscape design apps are proliferating, providing homeowners...

Several Minnesota architecture firms won recognition for their design work at the Association of Licensed Architects ALA 2017 Design Awards.Peterssen/Keller Architecture won a Gold Award for the design of Minneapolis residence Calhoun Pavilions (Elevation Homes, contractor). A silver...

From fresh pizza toppings to herb-infused cocktails, learn how to grow a themed garden to use for your favorite recipes this summer.

Photos providedLoll Designs is a Duluth-based company that specializes in the design and production of all-weather outdoor furniture and accessories. One of its core values is sustainability, recycling over 88% of its manufacturing waste...

Photos by Tracy Walsh From the street, there’s just a hint of what’s to come. Lush plantings beneath the river birch and massed containers in the front yard suggest gardeners are nearby—with an eye for...

Photos by Tracy WalshEven though she fondly remembers her Italian grandfather’s terraced vegetable gardens, her grandmother’s “little glass greenhouse” for growing begonias and fuchsias, and her mother’s love of Japanese-style gardening, Katherine Tane admits...

Avid gardeners never give up, even when storms, heat, humidity, or drought threaten to bring summer’s blooms to end. To discover which flowering plants do best long into summer and even to the first...

Photos by Andrea Rugg“Vast” and “parklike” are words Ground One Landscape Design + Build + Maintain owner Pat Weiss uses to describe the backyard of this Minnetonka home. “The homeowners, who have lived here...

Loll Designs, founded in Duluth in 2006, has been disrupting the summer-furniture market with its comfy, colorful, ultra-durable, and high-density polyethylene outdoor furniture. Manufactured from 50% recycled plastic—derived mostly from millions of single-use...

Sandy Lester, a University of Minnesota Master Gardener, walks us through her beautifully planted and tended to garden in Plymouth.

Photos by Andrea RuggElaina Moss’ yard is an edible landscape, and it’s not just Moss and her family eating. Bees, lacewings, and countless other insects are also welcome diners who, in turn, add value...

Photos provided  Edina-based furniture company Room & Board is continuously expanding its sustainable mission. Since 1980, the company has been dedicated to the development of sustainable furniture products. Its Urban Wood Project, a national initiative...

Photos provided Grow Your Own Flowers“Instagram influencers are leading the trend for fresh flowers in the home and in the garden,” Buerkley says. “This phenomenon is fueled by the fact that most flowers in the...

Bring summer life inside for the winter.

Photos by SpacecraftingThe small lake abutting this award-winning landscape is a below-the-radar gem—a private, nonmotorized body of water surrounded by woods that affords its residents abundant natural beauty and solitude only 15 minutes from...