Finding Fun in Michigan
Michigan gardening articles, posts, and tips on gardening in the Great Lake state. Specifically in the challenging environment of the Michigan shoreline.
Here is a sample of our best gardening posts.
Plenty of beautiful trees can add color to your garden throughout all seasons through their leaves, blooms, and fruits. They also bring birds, bees, and small creatures to your backyard, thus bringing a piece of nature into a busy urban landscape.
Michigan Lavender Farms carries the title home to have some of the best farms in the country. This region has been growing lavender for over 100 years. However, in the last 20 years, lavender farming has exploded in popularity. Many of the hobby farms we found are certified organic, which means they meet strict requirements for their practices.
There is an oasis of quiet green in the heart of Lansing. Cooley Gardens & Scott Sunken Gardens is a public park with trees, plants, flowers, and history. While it is a popular wedding venue, it remains one of the best-kept secrets in Lansing’s downtown.
Not only is gardening considered a therapeutic activity, a fact backed by science, but you can also tend your garden so that it actually helps nurture your immediate environment. And this is healthy not only for your local ecosystem but for the wildlife which flourishes within it.
Attract Hummingbirds and Orioles to Your Cottage With These 13 Tips.
Colorful feeders placed early in the season will draw these little visitors to your yard.
The idea of straw bale gardening from a book by Joel Karsten. Joel comes to us from Minnesota where the growing season is incredibly short and the soil tough to cultivate.
