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“The book has everything you need — except good weather and a warm, gentle rain.”
Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Mary Lahr Schier has written a delightful book that combines solid, practical gardening advice for northern gardeners with some of the history of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society, one of the country’s oldest. There is no other gardening book like this one for the Upper Midwest “
Mike Heger, co-author Growing Perennials in Cold Climates
“When Mary Lahr Schier, the editor of Minnesota State Horticultural Society’s magazine, Northern Gardener, writes a book called The Northern Gardener, you know it really is going to be about cold climate gardening, by someone who has actually lived it and done it.”
Kathy Purdy, ColdClimateGardening.com
“Mary Lahr Schier writes like a dream. I don’t know how she manages to craft an engaging personal (but not too quirky) yet authoritative voice while weaving together not only technical and practical but historical and aesthetic topics, but she makes it look easy.”
Leslie Schultz, writer and poet