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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday, I spent a little time weeding the actual rows in my garden – after the rain those pesky weeds popped up, but it wasn’t a long and laborious task. The weed barrier fabric that I have in the garden provided a fairly dry place to work even though the soil was wet, and there [...]
Gary Powell, the wonderful addition to our retail staff this year, has shared his Rhubarb Dessert recipe with us – in addition to making it for the crew the past two Sundays. It is rhubarb season and you can never have too many recipes, right? My rhubarb patch here at the nursery is plentiful again this year [...]
Monday, April 27th is Leif’s birthday. Last year, our grandsons came up to celebrate with Grandpa. Tyger is pictured here with Leif as he blows out his birthday candles.
On Monday, if you stop in and catch Leif – ask him for his birthday present to you – a birthday Gift Certificate for $5.
Happy Birthday, Leif.
Gary Powell, our newest retail employee, celebrated his birthday today with all of us here at the nursery. Gary is retired from Northwest Airlines and lives in the southern metro. He has taken the course for becoming a Master Gardener and is also one of our certified employees under the Proven Winners Program. With lots [...]
We are proud to announce that we are a 2009 Proven Winners Certified Garden Center. Through the iGarden program from Proven Winners, owners and employees are provided with plant selling tips, customer service tools and merchandising techniques to help them better serve consumers in helping them select and grow the right Proven Winners plant varieties [...]
Amy Voight, one of our landscape designers, and her husband Nathan, welcomed a new baby boy to their family on March 28, 2009. Timothy James Voight was also welcomed by his two older brothers – Caleb and Joshua. He is absolutely adorable. Little Timmy (as his brothers call him) will be keeping Mom busy for [...]
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 [...]
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, Heidi [...]
We recently donated 12 trees to the Old Memorial Field Park (swimming pool site) here in Northfield. Each year we like to donate trees to a park or public place here in Northfield. This picture shows our landscape crew, Jim Westlund, Richard Middleton and Todd Marnie finishing the planting of one of the trees.
This year, [...]
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 [...]
This week we welcomed back the rest of our returning college and high school workers. Pictured here are Peter Douglass, Kevin Vig and Kevin Borek and floating in air – Caitlyn Borek.
The guys are all in college and Caitlyn just graduated from Northfield High School this past weekend. Peter and Kevin Borek have been [...]
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