2025 Garden Talk

Allie Lundeen • May 22, 2025

2025 Garden Talk

I can't even believe that we are to this point in the year! Winter feels so long here in Minnesota and then boom here we are already at planting season! The sunshine and warm weather has arrived early and we really couldn't be more happy about it!


While I am starting to get all of my seeds planted for the season, I figured I would give a garden tour and share some photos of garden growing season. This corner of our property has stolen my heart just a little bit.

These raised planters are total show stoppers and have by far been the most requested link every time I share anything garden related.

They no longer have the exact ones that we have, but I've linked a few below that are very similar! They come is many different colors and sizing. The size we went with and see in these pictures are 8x2.

Garden Trellis I used these garden trellis for our cherry tomatoes and they worked great. If they get too full and heavy with windy weather they get a little loose but nothing too crazy that we experienced.

I got the garden work bench from the Hearth and Hand line at Target about 2 years ago. It is no longer in stock. I did find a similar one

here I will link. Most of the accessories were from that line too.

I love love love the entrance into the garden!! The Arbor Arch Trellis is so charming and the perfect feature to frame the garden area.

I like lighting around here, if you haven't noticed ;) it creates such a welcoming feeling in my opinion!

Below I have pulled together all of the lights I have in the garden area. Some are not pictured here, but all the ones I've linked below I use and have here!

If you are curious about the process on how we made this garden come to life and the bones of it all.

You can read this blog post HERE for the inside scoop!

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