The time period from mid-March to mid-April is especially good for pruning trees. With no leaves on the trees, it is much easier to evaluate the structure of the tree, choosing weakly attached branches for removal and leaving strongly attached branches to become the permanent framework. The next month is also a good time for [...]
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 [...]
Each year with the given weather conditions during the season, the weather brings the best out in certain perennial varieties. This year – that perennial is the Rudbeckia Goldsturm – commonly called Black Eyed Susan. Wow! is the only way to describe it. It has been in it’s glory for almost two months now and will continue [...]
Successful planting projects to improve your landscaping can take place throughout the Fall! Nights are growing longer, and days cooler which means reduced stress and moisture demands on new plantings.
If you are able to get your project area prepared, and the plants installed in September, many of them will be able to send out some [...]
We have had customers over the years who drive in with SUV’s, pickups, dump trucks, sedans, even an Austin Healey to pick up plants. Yesterday, a customer came in with his street rod pulling a small trailer and picked up a tree! One time a customer came in on his way home from fishing and [...]
We will be holding our Fall Seminar on September 12th. Our designers, Kristin Lucas and Amy Voight will present a seminar titled ‘Take the Guess Work out of Fall Clean-up and Winter Prep’.
If you’ve wanted to know which perennials to cut down before winter or how to protect your new trees from winter damage this [...]
“Mums” the word! Our first fall shipment of the University of Minnesota Hardy Mums came in this morning. Loaded with blossoms – you’ll find colors in purple, yellows, rust, white, orange and maroon. Mums are heavy feeders – meaning they like to be fertilized almost everytime they’re watered to keep them blossoming as long as [...]
Coneflowers do not just come in purple anymore! Pictured below is a new variety that we have this year called Tomato Soup! The color is just like tomato soup. If you have soup in the kitchen – you need “soup” in the garden! The stems grow to 3′ in height and the flowers will go 5″ [...]
A late season bloomer – what could be prettier than this! This Anemone – called ‘Robustissima’ starts blooming late summer into early fall. Reaching a height of 30″-36″, it graces the back of the perennial bed giving you that spark of color. Windflowers can grow from Zone 3 to Zone 8. These perennials can be [...]
After what seemed to be a late start, my cucumbers are going crazy! Just when I think I have them all picked, there is another one hiding between the vines. We eat them fresh, top off salads, make a cream sauce as a side dish, Greek Salad, Garbanzo Bean Salad, make pickles, and more!
Heidi Brosseau, [...]
We’ve just posted a new video of Jim and Todd showing the proper tree-planting technique. We are excited to add videos to our website. This video is posted under our “Instructions” page. We will be adding more videos this summer and fall!
This is the time of the year when customers often ask us if it is too late to plant trees, shrubs and perennials. The short answer is a definite – NO IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO PLANT!
Success with summer plantings is easy to achieve. Trees, shrubs and perennials have the same needs whether it is [...]
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 part shade perennials
- 6 full [...]
Do you have stepping stones that weeds somehow find their way to between the stones? I have a large diameter perennial and annual bed at home with annuals around the outside 2-3 feet and then perennials on the inside of the bed. Instead of stepping between the annuals to do maintenance on the perennials, I [...]
Leaf tatter on certain varieties of trees has caused them to look as if they are diseased, sick or being attacked by insects. For the last several weeks I have taken a steady stream of calls about trees that are looking bad. The calls started coming in a couple of days after we had 2 [...]
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