We always essay to bring new thing to the MSHS demo garden at the Minnesota State Fair . This year , tether unpaid worker Mary Muellner and her crew have been make more eatable spaces , trying a new mulch and extend the garden ’s custom of being beautiful and pollinator - friendly .
Our educational booth this bound is focalize on peppers , so of course we had to plant some capsicum in the video display garden . ( There will be many more at our booth inside . ) Our trilateral garden ( right on the corner with a beautiful hydrangea tree in it ) has several pretty Piper nigrum planted with celosia . By fair time , it will be lush and lovely .
Our street - shaft garden also has an edible theme with honeyberries , edible marigolds , alpine strawberry , amaranth and dahlias .
Ornamental peppers add contrast to an annual bed.
We are working on an apple Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree guild using permaculture principles in the Malus pumila tree garden . There is more workplace to be done there , but permaculture is a multi - year effort and we ’ll continue flourish it next year . We also have a garden fill with goji berries , a kiwi vine , herbs , yarrow , Echinacea and comfrey .
We still have our Minnesota - hardy roses raise in one of the beds , though like many Twin Cities gardener , we have been reach hard with Japanese mallet there . gratefully , the beetles should be gone by fair - meter , though some of their legal injury may still be visible .
As in yr ’s past tense , the pool garden will show how soothing a piddle garden can be . ( It ’s a great place to relax when the clean gets to be too overwhelming ! ) And , our pollinator spaces will be in their full , early free fall resplendence .
These ‘Sven’ roses look perfect, but check out the bloom on the far right. Argh!! Beetles.
We could never create a garden this beautiful without donations of materials and meter . Inspired Design Landscapesinstalled and designed the pool , as it has in the past . Plant donations came from our friends at Minnesota Green andWagners Greenhouses and Garden Center .
Good Ole ’ Hempof St. Cloud donated hemp mulch , which we are testing in three of the beds . Hemp is a light - brown mulch that is said to increase water memory and preclude sess growth because the fibers stick to together as the mulch get blotto . It will be interesting to see how this merchandise works at the garden .
Find our display garden in front of the Horticulture building at the corner of Judson and Underwood!
Aren’t these clematis gorgeous? You can see them in our Minnesota State Fair garden.
