Our December office hours are Monday through Thursday – 9 am to 1 pm. We do answer phone messages and e-mails 7 days a week – so if you’re in need of firewood or gift certificates – we’ll get back to you right away! Gift Certificates can be mailed out (to you or to the recipient) anytime or we can arranage a time for them to be picked up if the office hours don’t work for you!
We’ll be closed from December 23rd through January 1st. We’ll be back in the office on January 2nd!!
We have a limited amount of super dry firewood left for sale. This is all hardwood that has been cut, split and drying for three years. A fireplace cord – or face cord – when stacked is 8 feet long, 4 feet high and 15″-18″ wide, sells for $175 delivered to a Northfield address. Outside of Northfield – call for delivery costs. This is exceptional wood! Most of the wood in this photo has been sold – except for just a few loads.
Firewood makes a great Christmas gift as well!
We want to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
We will be closed from Wednesday November 23rd through Sunday, November 27th.
We have gift certificates available for your holiday gift ideas! What’s better than to give a gift that can be used for flowers in the spring – a tree for the yard – for shrubs around the house .. the list could be endless! We can do gift certificates in any amount. We will mail them to you – to your recipient – or if you need to pick them up on hours we aren’t here – we can usually make arrangements to be here for you to pick one up! Give us a call or drop us an e-mail and we’ll take this one off your list!
November 5th – 8 am – 5 pm
November 6th – 10 am to 4 pm
Week of November 7th – 11th – 8 am until 4:30 pm
We will be closed on the weekends starting November 12th and 13th – and will be closed for the 5 day Thanksgiving holiday.
Our weekday hours for November will be Monday through Friday – 8 am to 4 pm.
If you need to pick up plant materials already purchased, look at trees that are still available or purchase a gift certificate and these hours don’t work – please give us a call. We can see what we can do to accomodate a time for you.
It’s that time of year! Sunday, November 6th will be our last official day for retail sales for the season. We’ll be here from 10 to 4. On November 7th and 8th, we’ll still have most (but not all) plants available and the 9th, 10th & 11th, there’ll be limited availability. All plants that are in a container, get grouped together, tipped, and covered for their long winter’s napThis is a intense process so during this next week – that’s what we’ll be doing.
However, until the temperatures stay below frrezing, we’ll continue to have our larger balled and burlapped trees and some potted trees that are in our pot and pot growing area available for late season plantings.
The weather forecast is for LaNina to continue – meaning lots of snow from Dec – Feb and perhaps a wet April again! Plant your trees and shrubs now yet this fall when conditions are good and they’ll “sleep” in your yard and in the spring – they take off and you won’t miss any of the 2012 growing season. You don’t have to wait for the yard to dry out and then get them planted. Plant now instead!
We still have an amazing selection of trees, shrubs and perennials for your fall planting. All plants are at least 20% off, some are 30% off, others are 40% and many are on sale at 50% off regular prices. We will be open 7 days a week Sunday November 6th. Starting on November 7th, 2011- we will begin the over-wintering process. We’ll still be open and until plants are grouped, tipped and covered – they’ll be available for sale!
Living in the woods – we have lots of leaves every fall! Each fall, the grandsons can’t wait to come and jump in the leaves. Each fall, the pile gets bigger and bigger as they get bigger and bigger. Sunday afternoon they were “hiding” from Grandpa. When Grandpa found them – it was one Grandpa against two little grandsons!
The fall weather looks great for the next week – get out and enjoy it. Take a drive – rake the yard – play with your kids (or grandkids)… Enjoy!
We have an good supply of White Pine cones this fall. With the strong winds the last couple of weeks – the cones that may not have dropped this soon blew off. We have packaged some up in smaller amounts but also will have them available in larger amounts for those wanting to make holiday wreaths. Pine cones add a whimsical touch to fall / winter displays and are great for all sorts of crafts.
Here at the nursery, we are always protecting our plants. We have a deer fence that circles the entire nursery to keep the deer out – we are always looking out for the rabbits and mice, we keep them watered, pruned fertilized, etc. This season, however, we have had a pesky ground hog that has nibbled away on alot of plants causing quite a bit of damage. So, we have put to use a live trap so we could re-locate this varmit. What we didn’t anticipate was a young skunk being inquisitive about the trap. Needless to say, this morning when Heidi checked the live trap and found the skunk – she did a double take and quickly left it be. Now – how do you get a skunk out of a live trap safely and without getting sprayed? We called upon Fall Creek Animal and Pest Control out of Faribault. Shawn came up and within ten minutes had removed the skunk from the trap and was on his way (without being sprayed!). Now we have to re-think what to do with the ground hog!
Fall planting of trees and shrubs has long been a popular, economical and successful way to upgrade the quality of your landscape. We currently have several thousand trees, shrubs and perennials available at incredible prices. Any of our staff members can help you find just the right plant!
Fall color is coming into the country!! The harbingers of autumn color such as sumac, the red maple, and some ash trees are already putting that first glow of fall color in the landscape. Our knowledgeable staff can help you find a nice mix of plant materials to paint your landscape with early, mid and late season fall color.
Discounts of 20% to 50% are available on many plants and the plants displaying fall colors, changes daily. Our inventories are currently good, but hurry in while values are amazing.
Garden Art can be a wonderful compliment or finishing touch for all kinds of landscapes. Whether garden art is classical, fun and funky, trendy and edgy or whimsical, it can be an added level of enjoyment of our outdoor spaces.
At Knecht’s Nurseries and Landscaping, we are pleased to be able to make available the original garden art of Mary Felden, a Minneapolis artist whose steel creations are inventive, durable in all weather, functional and fanciful. Come in to our Hwy 19 retail site, and smile with us as you enjoy Mary’s work.
The weather forecast for the coming week looks wonderful for being outside doing almost anything – including time in the garden. If heat and humdity kept you from completing projects out in your landscape this summer, the cool mornings and mild afternoons predicted for this week present a nice opportunity to be creative with your outdoor spaces.
Early Fall is a beautiful time in a well planned garden. Annual flowers are still producing oceans of blossoms, hydrangeas and black eyed susans are lighting up the landscape, and mums are just starting to put on their fall showcase. This morning, I enjoyed the striking white tall flower scapes of our massed Royal Standard Hostas showing their best against the shiny dark green leaves.
Fall is also a good time to save money on plant materials, and get plants settled in so they will be ready for vigorous growth next season. Plenty of bargains are available this time of year, and new varieties that growers started producing last spring are sometimes making their first appearance in the sales areas of retailers only now, so opportunities for “treasure hunting” are many.
Enjoy some pleasant hours in your Fall gardens.
Sod Alert!!! As of 5:30 pm Friday – all sod has been sold….
We unexpectedly have 2 pallets of sod – approximately 150 sq. yards/rolls – available for immediate sale. Sod is a very perishable item so if you have an area that you would like to get some down on, try to come in today or tomorrow and pick up what you need. We’ll have it stored in the shade and protected from the wind to keep it in good shape as long as possible. We hope this unexpected inventory will be just the thing for your spruce it up project! 
Wet areas in a landscape can present some real challenges for getting trees to grow well. Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch can be an excellent solution, especially if you would like a tree of modest size, rather than the 40-50 foot height of a standard River Birch, or Niobe Weeping Willow.
Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch displays the same showy cinnamon/copper peeling bark as a full size River Birch, but matures to a very dense round form of 10-12 feet high and wide. Fox Valley is most often allowed to take it’s natural form as a low branched multi-stemmed clump type of ornamental tree, but does lend itself to artful pruning to allow for understory plantings of perennials and shrubs, or creation of a single stem form.
When allowed to grow into its’ natural form, Fox Valley Dwarf River Birch becomes a chubby “butter ball” with some amazing twig density that makes for good low level visual screening even in winter. The opportunity to use Fox Valley as both a focal point in the landscape and a screening tree adds an extra dimension of usefulness for this nice variety that can prosper in damp areas where other trees drown out.
