We have a new landscape designer! John Oehlenschlager, along with our lead designer Kristin Lucas are both busy setting up appointments and booking landscape jobs! Check out our specials page – they are offering an early-bird discount for plans drawn before April 1st!
John comes with 24 years of experience – as a designer and a [...]
We have a new Facebook page that I’m trying to keep up with. Being seasonal, it’s hard to put things on there in the dead of winter, but now with a few things starting to happen and spring right on the doorstep – it’ll be much more relevant. Just search for Knecht’s Nurseries & Landscaping [...]
Spring has arrived in the greenhouses! We have been planting perennial plugs for the last several days and the houses are filling up quickly. We’ll have the usual go-to perennials, but we have many of the newest releases coming this spring as well. I asked Heidi – our retail manager – what she was excited [...]
Did you know that there are many new varieties of Elm trees now available that have very high resistance to Dutch Elm Diease? At long last, we will once again begin to see stately Elms offering the benefits of their rapid growth and cooling shade. Elms are fast growing trees that offer plenty of shade.
We [...]
Baptisia australis
The following article is being submitted by Heidi Brosseau – our retail manager.
I am so excited about the 2010 Perennial Plant Associations pick for Plant of the Year! Baptisia australis, aka False or Wild Indigo. This is one of my all time favorite perennials. It is a hardy native prairie perennial that has never [...]
The Northfield Chamber of Commerce has named Leif the 2010 Business Person of the Year. We are very proud of his award – he definitely deserves it. He will receive his award at the banquet hosted by the Chamber on March 11th, 2010. This is a wonderful way to head into spring. Now only if the [...]
Full-time and part-time positions are available for people of all ages provided the candidate is capable of physically demanding work and has good people skills for positive interactions with customers. Experience is preferred – with an emphasis on horiticultural knowledge. We do have a limited number of positions available for people without a horticultural background [...]
January 19th brought amazingly beautiful hoar frost to our humble little office. Despite all the white – we’re thinking Spring! The days are getting longer, the sun is getting stronger and before you know it – the snowbanks will be melting. Now is the time to start thinking about plans to improve your landscape [...]
The following article was submitted by Kristin Lucas, our landscape designer.
The rooms inside our homes provide useable, functional spaces. We have spaces for eating, spaces for relaxing, spaces for working, and spaces for sleeping. Whether these spaces are large or small, divided by walls or defined by furniture and rugs, they make our living easier.
Just like [...]
We have closed the retail center now for the winter. We do still have available about 200 potted trees and all of our larger balled and burlapped trees until there has been enough frost to freeze things up! We will have dry firewood and gift certificates all through the winter season!
For the balance of November – [...]
We have gift certificates available for your holiday gift giving. We can issue them in any amount you need. Our office hours this time of year are limited, but we can mail them to you, to the recipient or arrange a time for you to pick it up if it’s not a time when we’re [...]
With the wonderful November weather – we are staying open for at least another week! People have been coming in and purchasing plant materials – others are hiring us to plant for them – and one couple contracted for a patio yet this fall – we’re still going strong! The fall sale prices are great [...]
We still have tulip, crocus & hyacinth bulbs available! On the radio this morning – the weatherman said that the National Weather Service is predicting a warmer than average November! This will mean that there’ll be plenty of time for fall projects. The bulbs are on sale at 30% off!
With Halloween coming next weekend – grab [...]
Now – my favorite subject! Hosta!
The past two days (which were really nice!) were sort of depressing for me. I had the task of cutting back all of our production hosta plants here at the nursery – signaling the end of this growing season. Sunday night we walked through our hosta garden at home, and [...]
Today – it’s a rainy, dreary October day. It’s hard to think of doing anything outside. But stop. Now is the perfect time to get that landscaping project that you’ve had planned - completed. With the busy summer season behind, you can think about that “outdoor room” you’ve wanted, a new patio, just a few trees [...]
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