Our retail center is now officially closed for the season. All of the plants are tucked away for the winter! We will continue to have our balled and burlapped trees and some container trees available for sale for those late fall planting projects for a couple of more weeks! We would ask that you call [...]
We have Gift Certificates available for Christmas giving! What a great way to give a present to someone that keeps on growing! They can be purchased in any amount – we can send them out for you, to you or you can pick them up here at the office! (Please call ahead since we don’t [...]
This very disease resistant, modest sized flowering crab can be an interesting feature of the landscape year around. Masses of white blossoms in May are followed by medium green leaves that stay crisp and blemish free the entire growing season. In early September, small 3/8″ diameter crabapples turn fire engine red, and persist on the [...]
Leif has a new article posted (pdf) in the library. Here is the first paragraph: I recently replaced two small maple trees that had died when the bark was completely girdled by the careless use of a string trimmer. It was especially sad because the energetic woman I planted them for is about eighty years [...]
Leif Knecht is interviewed by host Jon Gordon on today’s Future Tense radio show (MPR/American Public Media). The entire 5 minute show, More businesses consider blogging, is available on the show’s web site (listen using Real Audio) but here’s a snip: Recent entries on the photo-rich blog of Knecht’s Nurseries & Landscaping of Northfield, Minnesota [...]
This native vine is in its glory right now. The dazzling orange fruit is sure to brighten the muted late fall landscape, and carefully snipped pieces make for lovely decorative arrangements when combined with oak leaves, cattails, red and yellow twig dogwood and a few sprigs from evergreen trees. Give bittersweet plenty of sunshine and [...]
Leif has a new article posted (pdf) in the library. Here is the first paragraph: With soil moisture levels running a little on the low side due to several dry periods during the 2004 growing season, most landscape plants will benefit from one more good watering prior to the onset of winter. Plants will generally [...]
We are excited to announce that Amy Voight has joined our team as our new Landscape Designer! Amy comes to us with several years of experience and a passion in landscape design. She has already started visiting with customers and doing consultations! We look forward to working with Amy. For more on Amy or any [...]
The question that we get from our customers now is “What do you do with all of your plants that you haven’t sold yet before winter?” The answer is that we group all of the plants into blocks, tip them, and cover them up for their long winter’s nap! It is quite a process of [...]
Probably the most popular ornamental tree is the flowering crabapple. They come in a variety of sizes, shapes and spring blossom color. The blossoms in May will last for a week or two. When I think of a flowering crab, I think of the fruit that hangs onto the tree throughout the fall and winter [...]
The annuals in our window boxes have long since given up with the hard frosts we have had. I went on a journey through our wildlife cover plot at home and came up with a fall window box with no flowers…cuttings from the red twig and yellow twig dogwood, clippings from bittersweet, white pine cones, [...]
In years past, the lovely white barked paper birches have been a problem in the landscape due to their susceptibility to bronze birch borers. A rigorous Wisconsin breeding program over the last thirty years has resulted in the availability of several hybrid paper birch varieties with increased resistance to the borers. Lovely in form, contrast [...]
Leif has a new article posted in the library. Here is the first paragraph: A cool summer, warm September and mild October combined to bring us an autumn season with very nice color. As leaves make their final statement in blazing shades of gold, orange and red and soon flutter to the ground, the bittersweet [...]
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