Bring your children ages 3 and up to the nursery on Saturday morning, April 25th, starting at 10:30 to pot up their very own flower pot for Mom, for Mother’s Day! We will care for their pot of flowers here in the greenhouses until Mother’s Day weekend when they can come in and pick it [...]
Our plant spotlight today is a new perennial Lupine. Lupines are colorful favorites in the spring and summer garden. They can be used as accent plants with shrubs, or used in the back of a perennial garden. They are a wonderful complement with irises, peonies, bellflowers and annuals. Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to their colorful stalks [...]
We are excited to have our new “Plant Search” tool up and running on our website. After hours of work this winter, we have most of our trees and shrubs on this search tool and about half of our perennials. We are continuing to add more plants as time allows and we hope that it will be [...]
This year, more than ever, I believe we will see more people going back to or start to vegetable garden. A well planned out vegetable garden will yield good results, prove economical and will definitely deliver a sense of pride in your accomplishments! We have our vegetable garden here at the nursery (since we’re here [...]
Bluto, the garden toad is ready for spring. He’s anxious for warmer weather! December and January were cold and snowy. February provided a reprieve with warmer temperatures, not alot of snow (until last night) and warmer temperatures. The snow melted in the open areas and people were beginning to optimistically look to spring! There are [...]
On Monday, we took a few hours to head to St. Paul to the Como Park Conservatory. It was the last day of their featured Rainforest Display and the winter Poinsettia display in the Sunken Garden. The flowers were still perfect – and this was the last day of the exhibit! The next transition in [...]
Our spring bulb assortment just arrived! We have tulips, daffodils, narcissi, hyacinth, crocus, allium, muscari and scilla bulbs ready for your fall planting. These will add a riot of color to your spring garden. We have tulips in several colors including a two toned maroon and gold – the Northfield school colors! We also have [...]
Now is a great time to start planning your beds for the spring of 2009! By now you know what did and didn’t work this season and you can also see what other people have done and how it’s doing. I can take full credit for very few combinations of annuals and perennials – most [...]
Northfield retailers will be promoting their annual Crazy Days Sale on Thursday, July 24th starting at 7 am. We will be having over 50 varieties of trees, shrubs and perennials on sale at 50% off! The following are some of the items that we’ll be discounting – and we’ll be adding onto this list up [...]
We are very excited about the number of residents and businesses here in Northfield who are participating in the America in Bloom program. We have a healthy supply of the designated colors in annuals and we have many planters planted with the designated annuals as well for those who would just like to buy a [...]
We have a huge assortment of baskets for Mother’s Day gift giving. Baskets for the sun or shade – clip the coupon from the Northfield News for an additional savings and give Mom a gift she’ll have all summer! Also for Mother’s Day – just on Sunday – we are offering a free perennial [...]
Everyone wants to get into the yard and garden now with at least a hint of warmer weather…. Leif’s article from the Northfield News last Saturday highlights the different sequences for success in the garden……… A long winter and a scattering of nice days in April have most gardening enthusiasts eager to till and plant. [...]
Nothing says spring more than the arrival of the pansies, snapdragons and the cool season vegetables. Our first shipment arrived today. Pansies are hardy plants that withstand colder temperatures at night and can also handle a fair amount of shade. We usually plant pansies in the window boxes here on the office which is quite [...]
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