We have had a fulltime (seasonal) job opportunity come open this week. This position will mainly be in our production area with some landscaping duties. Working in our production area is wide reaching - working with the container inventory – the field trees – setting the nursery up in the spring and putting it to [...]
Our 4th Annual Kid’s Planting Day was a huge success this year with over 50 planters being potted up. Heidi’s little girl – Belinda – was very excited today as she picked up her planters for her Mom and Grandmas. Here’s wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all the Moms, Grandmas, and the other special [...]
On Friday, May 11th, Knecht’s Nurseries & Landscaping was able to partner with Taylor Truck Line of Northfield to donate over 140 trees to residents of north Minneapolis who lost so much in the devastating tornado last year. The Tree Trust and the City of Minneapolis received the trees donated by Knecht’s Nurseries, and will [...]
Every year I get excited about one of our new hosta varieties that we bring in. This year – it’s ‘Wheee!’. The extremely ruffled leaves make this plant a unique specimen. They have a heavier substance leaf which will make them more resistant to slugs. A medium sized hosta – it will sport light lavendar flowers atop [...]
Every once in a while, you need to step outside the box when considering landscape plants. At the end of February, we toured several of our nursery suppliers on the west coast and were awe struck at the Iseli Nursery in Boring, Oregon. We just received our shipment of creative evergreens this week and they [...]
Sign up through Northfield Community Ed to “think outside” with me, Heidi Brosseau, for one of my Creative Container Gardening Classes. One will be held on Thursday evening, May 10th, and the second one is on Thursday night, May 17th. These classes are sponsored through Northfield Community Education and will be held here at Knecht’s [...]
Prairie Rose Flowering Crab The Prairie Rose Flowering Crab has to have the most stunning flowers of any crabapple tree! These rose like flowers bloom just a little after the other flowering crabs put on their color show. This tree is one of the few flowering crabapple trees that are fruitless. For those who do [...]
Not even 38 degrees with a cold rain could stop these little folks from coming and planting a special container of flowers for Mom or Grandma for Mother’s Day! This is our 4th year of offering this opportunity for parents to introduce gardening for their children. Some were tentative, others dug right in. We keep [...]
Last year, the Northfield Garden Club’s President – Mrs. EdDee Imm, helped the City secure a MnDOT grant for $10,000 to be used to beautify the City. It was determined that one of the areas that needed “help” the most was along the Hwy 3 corridor from the Cannon River to Jefferson Parkway. EdDee approached [...]
The many different varieties of Flowering Crabapple trees here at the nursery makes for an incredible color explosion. It’s hard to pick a favorite. You walk by one, and say that’s so beautiful – that’s my favorite. Then you go to the next aisle – and say the same thing! We carry approximately [...]
Each year we have wildlife encounters here at the nursery. We’ve got all sorts of bird stories, and encounters with groundhogs, racoons, deer, and skunks to name a few. This week, we found a Killdeer nest out in one of our tree production areas. They had built the nest between two posts right between our irrigation lines. [...]
During the gardening (and growing) season, we publish E-News only coupons. The first coupon for this year went out just this morning. This coupon will apply toward the purchase of trees and upcoming coupons will feature savings on shrubs, perennials, hosta and other additional savings opportunities. To receive these coupons, just sign up for our [...]
The Northfield Patch website is conducting a survey on what’s your favorite garden center in the Northfield area. We would appreciate your vote! At Knecht’s you will find our extremely large selection of plant material – over 1000 varieties of trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals allows a customer to find almost anything they desire. Just this [...]
Spring planting is upon us and we have made some “BIG” changes to our bedding plant program here at Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping for the 2012 season. We have decided to “Buy Local” and have switched to local growers for all of our bedding plants including vegetables, herbs, accent plants and baskets. Because of our [...]
The calls we are getting alot this past week or two is “What’s that tree with the rose/pink flower” or “I came through Arkansas and Missouri and saw the Redbuds, are they hardy here in Minnesota?” We definitely carry the handsome Minnesota Strain of Redbud. We have them in all sizes, [...]
