Snowdrops signal spring, even when the view outdoors may not look spring-like. Often poking up through the snow, they’re among the earliest flowers to bloom. Snowdrops are perennials, perfect for ...

* What it is: A short, winter-hardy, super-early-blooming bulb that can send up its nodding, white, bell-shaped flowers as early as end of January some years. Even a covering of snow won't faze these.

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum gardeners and I are on the lookout each March for the first snowdrop flowers, the first perennial garden plant to bloom and a marker of the beginning of the growing ...

We all need a little help getting through winter. My wife, for instance, is an obligate palm tree person. About 20 years ago, after a few years of trying to convince me that we should head south for a ...