We are excited about our upcoming Shade Garden seminar The Shady Gardener Seminar Saturday morning – July 18th 10:30 am – 11:30 am $10.00 per person This seminar will feature interesting shade perennials (it’s not just hosta anymore) that every shade gardener should know about! Come and check out our shady characters! – 6 [...]
A reminder to those of you that are re-doing your landscaping this summer! Think about entering the Great Minnesota Makeover Contest. Bailey Nurseries is sponsoring this contest which started on May 22nd and runs through July 31st. We are a participating garden center. See our Blog Post from May 22nd for more information! Enter your yard – before [...]
The establishment of the highly destructive emerald ash borer in Minnesota will once again force us to re-evaluate what type of trees we should be planting. When Dutch Elm Disease devastated our urban and native forests starting in the 1950′s the same question was asked since so many communities had planted such large numbers of [...]
Bailey Nurseries in St. Paul is sponsoring a contest – starting today and running through July 31st called the Great Minnesota Makeover. The concept of the contest is to create a garden makeover in one of four outdoor areas - Front Entry Way General Yard Outdoor Living Area Boulevard Area You need to provide digital [...]
The average frost free day in southern Minnesota is supposed to be May 15th! Not this year! We are experiencing the last day of a huge low pressure system that by this afternoon will see the winds settling down, the skies becoming mostly clear and the lows predicted in the Minneapolis area to be 35 degrees. [...]
Today we held our first annual “Kid’s Planting Day”. The kids came and planted annual planters to give to mom for Mother’s Day. They potted their chosen plants with the help of Heidi and Kristin from our staff, and the dads got right in there to help as well. We labeled the planters and will [...]
This spring – when it finally arrived – is very dry. The plants need to be watered! Any plantings that you did new to your yard in 2008, all need a drink of water. A thorough watering once or twice a week will keep these plants going as they are getting established in your landscape. [...]
The Northfield Garden Club is sponsoring the Northfield in Bloom Program this spring. They are promoting beautifying Northfield. Businesses, the colleges, retirement communities and homeowners are all encouraged to plant flowers as we did last year. The Garden Club has chosen plants which are economical and would they would appreciate the use of these colors [...]
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 [...]
I will also be sharing some of my blogs for blog entries at the Northfield News. To prevent the transmission of diseases such as Oak Wilt and Dutch Elm Disease, it is best to prune these varieties during the late fall, winter and very earliest part of spring. Up until about April 7th, you should [...]
It seems that springs begins with the area Home and Garden Shows. Our first show this year will be the Lonsdale Business Expo. Businesses from Lonsdale and surrounding area will present their businesses. We will be handing out gift certificates and flyers for spring sales. Stop by and visit our booth and say hello! The [...]
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 [...]
This week we attended the annual convention of the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association held at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Leif and I attended, as did our two designers, Kristin Lucas and Amy Voight and pictured – our retail team of Heidi Brosseau, Russell Lovetinsky and Cory Holcomb, and the landscape duo of Jim Westlund [...]
We have gift certificates available for holiday giving. What a great way to give a plant or a tree. You may like crabapple trees – they may like maples. You are fond of spirea – they are really into burning bush shrubs. This way – you can be sure they get just what they want [...]
On October 11, 2008, our retail manager, Heidi Gervais became Mrs. Scott Brosseau at a lovely wedding ceremony held at the Valley Grove Church, rural Nerstrand. Heidi met Scott 2 1/2 years ago on a blind date in Duluth and as they say, the rest is history. After a short honeymoon down to Ft. Lauderdale, [...]
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