This Saturday – April 1st – is the Northfield Home and Garden Show. It will be held at the new Northfield Middle School on Hwy 246 on the south edge of Northfield. There are 60 different area businesses who will exhibit their goods and services. There are seminars being presented by Represenative Ray Cox and [...]
We are pleased to announce that Shar Jacobsen has passed the rigorous test to become our next Certified Nursery and Landscape Professional. Shar studied this winter and took the examination of March 10th. The exam is co-sponsored by the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association and the University of Minnesota. They tested Shar’s knowledge of general [...]
Thinking outside the box…a sure sign of spring. What is this? Notice the broken twig a little bit above the carrot lying on the ground….imagine the twig as the arm and the carrot as the nose. The snowman has now melted and his moisture has contributed greatly to the flower bed on which he was [...]
The first signs of spring flowers have appeared on the hillside here at the nursery. I was so excited when I opened the gate this morning and was welcomed by the emergence of these spring wonders! Please stop by the nursery often this spring. We planted another 1000 bulbs last fall so we will have [...]
Since Spring is taking it’s own sweet time in getting here – last weekend we took our two little grandsons to the Marshall Field’s Flower Show in downtown Minneapolis and then to the “Amusement Park at Mall of America”. To make it even more fun for the boys – we parked at the Mall and [...]
Kristin Lucas rounds out our landscape designer staff. Kristin will be graduating from Dakota County Vo-Tech this spring with her degree in Landscape Design. For the past two years, she has worked at a nursery in Farmington, Minnesota in their nursery and in landscape design. Kristin’s duties here will include working with our retail customers [...]
Last fall, we did a large buckthorn eradication job for a client here in Northfield. They have a beautiful home set on three wooded lots and over the years, buckthorn has been invaded the native trees and shrubs on the property. Our crew went in and did the first round of eradication. In a project [...]
The newest addition to our staff is Keith Bode. Keith comes to us with many years of experience as a landscape designer, landscape foreman, installer and garden center salesperson. Keith is busy doing landscape design plans for our customers and is anxious to meet and assist as many of you that he can! He has [...]
Today is the Lonsdale Community Business Showcase held in the facilities of Losdale Packaging. What a wonderful display of all of the various businesses in and around Lonsdale! Leif Knecht, Heidi Gervais, our retail manager, and Keith Bode, one of our Landscape Designers staff our booth to welcome Lonsdale Area residents! The Lonsdale Chamber of [...]
The first tip is to try to attend as many of the spring Home and Garden Shows that you can. A few were held in February but now in the next month – they’re being held all over. We will be having a booth at three different shows this spring – Lonsdale, MN, New Prauge, [...]
My apologizes for those of you that keep up with our website during the winter. It was my intention to get several areas updated and new info added. However, most of February saw me not feeling very well. From an inner ear thing going on to the worst cold I’ve ever had – I finally [...]
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