It’s time to think about planting your Spring Bulbs. Tulips, Daffodils, Crocus, Allium and other spring bulbs need to be planted now within the next month. The bulbs will actually root out a little now and then they’ll go through the winter freeze cycle and in the spring – provide a visual fairyland in your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
Northfield’s Annual Crazy Days will be held this Thursday – July 23rd starting at 7:00 am!! We will be having over 50 varieties of trees, shrubs and perennials on sale at 50% off!! There will be 30% off regular prices on many other plants as well! And, Leif will almost certainly find some things that [...]
Delphiniums – wow! These sunny area perennials will steal your heart with their gorgeous colors. These are large plants that will reach a mature height of 5′-6′ in height. They need to be planted in good soil so they get a good set of roots established which then enables the plant to produce this nice [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One of my favorite shade perennials at home blossoming right now is the Campanula ‘Samantha’. It is tucked in between two of our Ely greenstone boulders and it is full of lavender-blue blossoms. A compact long flowering Campanula with fragrant flowers, it blooms heavily in early summer. It will rebloom with periodic deadheading. I have this [...]
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