Monthly Archives: March 2005

Northfield Get-together

The Home and Garden Show today was a wonderful get together for the Northfield community. It’s fun to see so many friends and customers. The new middle school is definitely a building to be proud of. It is awesome! Here are Leif and I along with our landscape designer, Amy Voight, in our booth this [...]

Northfield Home and Garden Show

The Northfield Home and Garden Show is tomorrow at the new Northfield Middle School on Hwy 246, south of the Northfield High School. Here is our booth from two weeks ago at the Faribault Home Show. From the conversations we overheard at the Faribo Show, people were looking forward to the Northfield Home and Garden [...]

Just Another Busy Day

Even though the winter has seemingly been around a long time (and it has) it has been spring for awhile here at the nursery. We have six greenhouses full of perennials that we have potted up in the last several weeks, we have just covered two of our hoop structures with plastic and are going [...]

Easter Lilies

We are animal lovers and our veterinarian – Countryside Animal Hospital – sends out a newsletter. I was reminded by something that I knew before and again was scared in what I read. The following is from their newsletter: Beauty Beware This is the time of year when pet-owners start considering bringing Easter Lilies into [...]

Perennial and Hosta of the Year – 2005

Each year the Perennial Plant Association and the American Hosta Society name a plant of the year. These plants have to meet certain criteria and are tried and tested. The 2005 Perennial of the Year is the Lenton Rose or Helleborus xhybridus. This plant does well in a part shade to full shade garden. It [...]

Spring Home and Garden Shows

We are going to be having a booth at three different community Home and Garden Shows in the next few weeks! We are hoping to see as many of our past customers and meet many new ones! At all three shows, we’ll be handing out spring coupons to be used on all of your spring [...]

April is Garden Month

April is fast approaching and we all will be thinking of getting our hands in the dirt and planting something! In 1986, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed National Garden Week – and it now has grown to include the entire month of April! It includes the “green” holidays of Earth Day on April 22nd, and National [...]