Saint Paul Weather Forecast, MN

	Northern Gardener, the only magazine edited exclusively for cold climate gardening
	Member discounts at over 150 garden centers, nurseries & landscaping services
	Expert educational classes
	Events and tours
	Resources for gardeners
	A network of affiliated garden clubs
	An extensive lending library of horticultural and gardening books
	A retail bookstore and gardening gift shop
	MN Green: a program that supplies donated plant material to community gardens
	Garden in a Box: a low-cost raised bed enclosure that can be used almost anywhere

As you have likely read, seen or heard through media reports, there are confirmed findings of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) in St. Paul, MN and the small town of Victory, WI, which is south of LaCrosse and just a mile from the Minnesota-Iowa border. For more information on EAB, click on the below pdf of Katharine Widin’s 2008 article in Northern Gardener Magazine.

In response to the EAB threat, the Minnesota House of Representatives Cultural & Outdoor Resources Finance Division included $2 million for a reserve fund to address terrestrial invasive species. H.F.1231 is the bill that allocates the new sales tax revenue from the outdoor heritage fund. Whether or not this allocation will make it all the way through the House and then be agreed to by the State Senate is unknown. Your help is needed to make this happen. Legislators must hear from the friends of the trees!

Click HERE to contact your legislators to ask them to support an appropriation to slow the effects of EAB.

To learn more about EAB detection, view the following video on the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s EAB surveys.

 

Quilters who also love gardening and nature came together to create the MSHS 2008 Tree Quilt. We’d like to offer our thanks to all the individuals who used their textile talents to fashion this beautiful quilt. A special thanks goes out to Anne Tiller for once again taking the lead on putting the quilt together and for all her extra time and efforts that she has donated to MSHS.

Quilters:

Nancy Christianson
Dolores Fredenburg - Shevlin Garden Club
Margie Hoff
Karen Milton - GCRC
Karen O'Rourke
Julie Peterson – Sargent’s Nursery
Beth Sanders
Annette Schardin - GCRC
Lenny Siibul - Pomme de Terre
Anne Tiller – GCRC
Ellen Weide - Parkway Garden Club

Raffle tickets will be on sale for $1 at the Minnesota Home & Patio Show, Minneapolis Spring Home & Garden Show, the Minnesota State Fair, the MSHS office, and all other events MSHS will be participating in. The final drawing will take place at the end of 2009.