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 [...]
Did you know that there are many new varieties of Elm trees now available that have very high resistance to Dutch Elm Diease? At long last, we will once again begin to see stately Elms offering the benefits of their rapid growth and cooling shade. Elms are fast growing trees that offer plenty of shade.
We [...]
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 [...]
Today – it’s a rainy, dreary October day. It’s hard to think of doing anything outside. But stop. Now is the perfect time to get that landscaping project that you’ve had planned - completed. With the busy summer season behind, you can think about that “outdoor room” you’ve wanted, a new patio, just a few trees [...]
Winterberry. A shrub with glossy green leaves during the growing season. Produces berries. But wait — in late summer, these berries slowly start to turn color and by early fall – they’re red. When the leaves come down, you will see masses of bright red berries that light up the fall landscape. Best of all [...]
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 [...]
Our fall sale has begun. We have hundreds of trees, shrubs and perennials on sale. The savings are from 30% to 50% on selected plants. If you have been contemplating a new landscape area, replacing a few plants in an existing shrub bed, or planting a new tree or two – now is the time to [...]
One of the greatest August garden moments is when the hydrangeas start to bloom. There are so many different varieties of hydrangea shrubs – and then there are the wonderful hydrangea trees!
The shrub form of hydrangeas range in sizes from 3′ tall all the way up to 10′ tall depending on the variety. There are blue, pink [...]
These shade perennials grace my hosta garden. The photo to the right shows Pulmonaria - also known as Lungwort. These blossom in early spring with red, pink, white and blue flowers – depending on the variety. Some varieties have more a white colored leaf, while some are speckled or blotched, while others are mostly green. They look soft [...]
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 [...]
It’s time to water your landscape plants. Mother Nature has been pretty stingy with rainfall these past couple of years, and the subsoil is now pretty dry.
In normal times when the surface soils dry out, subsoil moisture is available to gradually percolate up, or be drawn out by the large root systems of established plants. [...]
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 images of your before and [...]
Among the many shade perennials that return each spring in the garden right outside our living room window, one of my favorites is only half my idea. Living in the woods means that we have to forego most of the sunny area perennials and pick from the varieties that do well in shadier conditions. The [...]
One of the prettiest hosta in our collection is June. June presents hereself with a dense, medium-sized mound of gold-centered foliage and has a thick substance to the leaves. The mature height of a June hosta is 16″ and can go about 30-35″ wide. The blue-green margin that often streaks into the center turns a [...]
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