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Website Helps You Get A Great Yard With Less Mowing And Watering

Video at http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=77972

"We come out here and we feel like it's holding Minnesota in its arms. It's gathering in the good wet Minnesota and converting it to blooms and oxygen," homeowner Ted Kiesselbach said of his yard full of rain gardens.

The area is a kaleidoscope of lush green plants and colorful blooms. And when you get up close you find them alive with equally-colorful insects.

"There's a lot of vitality here," Kiesselbach said.

Brimming with vitality, these patches are rooted in practicality.

"We were getting lots of water in the basement," Kiesselbach ...
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Where Have All The Bees Gone?

Where have all the bees gone?

It was the summer before my senior year of college, and instead of lounging around drinking beer, backpacking through Europe or working on my tan like the rest of my friends, I spent three months in a tent full of wasps. Every morning I woke up, rode my bike to the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and then stepped into a full-bodied beekeeper suit. The 40 by 40 foot tent was set up in a field on the outskirts of the arboretum, and inside we studied a colony of yellow-jacket wasps dug up earlier ...
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Kare 11 Features Blue Thumb: The Secret To Leisurely And Eco-Friendly Landscaping

"Blue Thumb - Planting for Clean Water" assists residents in planning and planting native gardens, raingardens, and shorelines with native plants.

By visiting http://bluethumb.org/, homeowners can find planting blueprints, a plant selector tool, local retailers and landscapers, grant information, how-to guides, and more. Blue Thumb plantings create gorgeous landscapes that provide great habitat for birds and butterflies while decreasing all of the top water quality concerns, the need for herbicides and pesticides, air pollution from mowing and drinking water used for irrigation.

View Belinda and Bobby Jensen's "Grow with KARE" segment on Blue Thumb at:

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