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 [...]
This past week, our crews installed 12 balled and burlapped shade trees into two of the City’s parks. Grant Park was the recipient of 3 hybrid Elms, 3 Oaks, 2 Maples and 3 Honeylocust trees. Jefferson Park received an Autumn Blaze Maple. Each year we donate trees to Northfield’s parks in appreciation of the support that the Northfield [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever admired a group of white barked birch trees in the North Woods? Or perhaps you’ve noticed a graceful clump of white birch serving as a focal point in a neighbor’s landscaping. Wherever they are found in our natural woodlands or urban landscapes, white barked birches of many varieties seem to catch our [...]
With the serious pest – Emerald Ash Borer – now present in the State of Minnesota, people will be interested in ways to protect their trees. A once a year soil drench of a solution containing Imidacloprid will prevent the Emerald Ash Borer from doing significant damage. Application is extremely easy for homeowners, and quite [...]
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 [...]
Now that spring is sprung and the growing season is well under way, we can enjoy some of the real glories spring has to offer. Flowering crabs have been putting on a show in recent days, and one of my all time favorites for eye popping color is the Prairiefire Crab. Prairiefire seems to blossom [...]
The phone rings and the person on the other end is asking, “What are those shrubs that are full of purple flowers right now?” The answer is one of the many varieties of Rhododendron. There are many varieties that are hardy in our area of Minnesota – ranging in color shades of violet, pink, red [...]
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