The development of affordable housing options in the Northfield area has been a priority for the City of Northfield and the Housing and Redevelopment Authority for a number of years. Today marked a milestone in these efforts with the dedication of a tree planting project at the center island park of the Maple Hills affordable [...]
This is actually a whole family of lilacs. Plant breeders over the centuries have come up with dozens of good variations of common lilacs. Members of the common lilac family tend to grow larger — in the 6 to 12 foot size range. Some of my favorites are “Sensation”, “Charles Joly”, “Albert Holden”, “Common White”, [...]
Leif has a new article posted in the library. Here’s the first paragraph: Flowering shrubs make up an important part of the design in most landscapes. Besides putting on show stopping displays of massive mounds of color, flowering shrubs can also provide balance and the proper scale in some parts of the landscape, privacy or [...]
The question that we have had the most around the nursery the last week or so goes something like this…”My perennials must have died, they’re not coming up, what am I to do?” The answer on this is that it is only the end of April. Even though the weather for the most part has [...]
The nursery is now fully stocked with trees, shrubs, perennials and a very nice selection of annuals and hanging baskets. While most gardeners will be holding off on planting annuals except for cool season varieties, the planting of shrubs and trees can now move forward at full speed since this is a wonderful time of [...]
We noticed on Rep. Ray Cox’s weblog that a state-wide ban on phosphorous in lawn fertilziers has been passed by the State House of Representatives. Ray was supportive of this bill with the goal in mind of improving water quality in our State’s lakes and streams. At this time we are not sure when this [...]
Leif has a new article posted in the library. Here’s the first paragraph: In Minnesota, May is traditionally thought of as the month for dazzling displays by flowering trees such as flowering crabapples, Serviceberry, tree form lilacs and fruit trees that come into bloom. A closer look reveals that many trees flower during the month [...]
We love to feed and watch the birds here at the nursery. We have several birdhouses around the nursery including our blue bird houses. Last year we had a pair of nesting bluebirds and hope to have more this spring. Watch for future blog postings on the status of our blue bird population. One of [...]
The spring flowers on the hillside here at the nursery are almost in their full glory right now. The daffodils and tulips are blooming and they are so beautiful. I do believe that the daffodil is the most perfect flower. We’re fortunate in that yesterday’s strong, sustained winds didn’t harm these flowers much. Some are [...]
It’s spring time in the great State of Minnesota and that means it’s a wonderful time to plant trees and shrubs. Our crews are busy completing the spring harvest of over 800 balled and burlapped (B&B) trees to give you a nice selection of good sized trees for your landscape project. We have a light [...]
Leif has a new article posted in the library. Here’s the first paragraph: Property owners desiring to plant medium and larger size trees have the two primary options of balled and burlapped trees and tree spaded trees. Evergreen trees, ornamental trees and shade trees can all be planted in balled and burlapped form or by [...]
Google‘s search spider has evidently done a full crawling around the site, gathering up the full text of all the Word doc articles in the library. So now if you use the Google-based Search form, it’ll scour Leif’s articles from the past four years (as well as all the other pages on the site) for [...]
It is now April 7th and we have had customers coming in steadily already. With the weather as warm as it has been, it seems like it should be later than the first week of April. Our tree and shrub sales areas are all ready to go and we are about halfway through getting our [...]
Leif has a new article posted in the library. Here’s the first paragraph: Prime time for planting trees is here as frost is mostly gone from the soil structure with the more intense sun of early spring. It is a good time to think carefully about the varieties, packaging, size, cost and location of the [...]
