The past two months has been an ultimate e-experience. Leif and I have used the internet to research information and monitor weather and that has been about it. This winter we set upon the task to develop a web-site and with the assistance of Griff Wigley of Wigley & Associates, we have a very extensive [...]
Spring has officially arrived at the nursery. It is hard to believe that we went from a 15 degree morning a little over ten days ago to almost 70 degrees this week. What wonderful spring weather. I wish the little lady beetles would have gone south. We have just started to uncover all of our [...]
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Leif and I just returned last night from a week in London. We usually go on vacations into the wilderness so a week in a major city of 7 million people was definitely an adventure. We visited the usual sites — Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Westminister Abbey, Windsor Castle, Bath, Stonehenge and the like, however [...]
For three years I have been writing a weekly newspaper column on gardening and landscaping subjects. I’m happy to report that these articles are now available to you on our website by clicking on the Library. Some are posted right now and the rest will be posted by the end of the month. Each week [...]
We are excited to now have our plant list up on our website. We have diligently tried to get this as complete as possible and hope you’ll find what you need! We do reserve plants if you find one that you’ve been looking for! Since we have just started our website and the plant list [...]
A welcome 8 inch heavy wet snowstorm brought a little excitement to the Northfield area this morning, but will provide much needed moisture to help recharge dry subsoils which remained fairly dry going into the winter of 2003-04. As you can see many trees were heavy laden with snow (see our winter photo gallery for [...]
Spring has officially arrived at Knecht’s Nurseries. Today we are potting up our first shipment of little trees. The trees are then placed in the greenhouse, kept nice and warm, and begin to grow! By Wednesday, our perennials start to arrive. We have over 10,000 perennial plugs and bare root stock coming in, in the [...]
In the winter Leif and I have time to look for additions to our display gardens. These aren’t just plants, some have smiling faces. We found ourselves a large toad a couple of weeks ago and he is just adorable. Look for him hanging out under the trees at the nursery this spring. Between now [...]
