January 19th brought amazingly beautiful hoar frost to our humble little office. Despite all the white – we’re thinking Spring! The days are getting longer, the sun is getting stronger and before you know it – the snowbanks will be melting. Now is the time to start thinking about plans to improve your landscape [...]
We have closed the retail center now for the winter. We do still have available about 200 potted trees and all of our larger balled and burlapped trees until there has been enough frost to freeze things up! We will have dry firewood and gift certificates all through the winter season!
For the balance of November – [...]
We have gift certificates available for your holiday gift giving. We can issue them in any amount you need. Our office hours this time of year are limited, but we can mail them to you, to the recipient or arrange a time for you to pick it up if it’s not a time when we’re [...]
With the wonderful November weather – we are staying open for at least another week! People have been coming in and purchasing plant materials – others are hiring us to plant for them – and one couple contracted for a patio yet this fall – we’re still going strong! The fall sale prices are great [...]
Now – my favorite subject! Hosta!
The past two days (which were really nice!) were sort of depressing for me. I had the task of cutting back all of our production hosta plants here at the nursery – signaling the end of this growing season. Sunday night we walked through our hosta garden at home, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A rain barrel is a container that is connected to roof gutters and collects the rain water – thereby reducing the amount of water reaching surface waters. You can then use this recycled water to water flowers, your grass or even washing your car. Not only do rain barrels save money on watering bills, they [...]
The Praying Hands Hosta has to be one of the most intriguing varieties out in the marketplace. The upright narrow leaves of this plant gives it an unuual look like no other! Each green leaf is rolled and folded into a tube shape, displaying the prominent vens on the back of the leaf A thin [...]
We have just received an order of some unique hosta varieties and a few standard varieties. We have these available in very limited quantities as this was an order of a few of many varieties – not alot of a few.
The hosta that I am most excited about is the hosta ‘Fingerprint’. It is an [...]
Perhaps you’ve been thinking about digging and dividing some of your perennial flowers, or found that you planted some kind of shrub in a spot that is too shady, and now after a year or two want to move it to a little sunnier spot. The time of transplanting is upon us.
Some sunny areas have [...]
Is Spring Fever making your crazy! A quick remedy for Spring Fever is a visit to Knecht’s Nurseries!
We will be opening for the season on Monday, April 6th. We are busily getting the plants ready for the growing season and out of winter mode. We are open 7 days a week – Monday through Friday, 8 am [...]
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