Today – April 27th – is Leif’s Birthday and yesterday afternoon, the grandsons came up from Owatonna to tell Grandpa “Happy Birthday”. Jordan and Tyger helped water for a few minutes and they checked on the acorn and sugar maple plantings. Brandt was much more interested in all of the “big boys” driving the trucks [...]
Leif’s article for this week’s Northfield News discusses what one should be doing for the clean-up of their landscape plants after the stresses of Mother Nature this last year – especially in Northfield. Locally, the plants with the most damage from the severe hail storm are the arborvitae and other evergreens. “Keeping a landscape in [...]
The hosta is my favorite perennial plant. We have lived in the woods for 15 years and obviously by design were forced into shade perennials. We started out with the usual hostas gracing our gardens – Albo-marginata, Royal Standard, and Lancifolia. That was 15 years ago. Since that time we have expanded our gardens at [...]
We did get our first shipment of annuals in on Wednesday. The cool season annuals should present no problem now with dressing up your patio pots or gardens with them. We also brought in patio tomatoes this year. They stay more compact than the regular tomatoes which makes growing in a container much easier! You [...]
After studying several weather web-sites and ascertaining that they are predicting no nights below 39 degrees in the next 15 days, I decided to get moving! This morning I started the uncovering of my sensitive plants. I pulled back the mulch on some of my Endless Summer Hydrangeas. I found that the new little shoots [...]
I usually like putting pictures in with Leif’s articles – but this week it would have to be a picture of a sad looking bleeding heart that started to come up the end of March or our daylilies here at the nursery on the hillside which don’t look very happy – so – no picture. [...]
A favorite shady perennial for spring in our garden is our woodland creeping phlox – Phlox divaricata. The variety in the picture here is “Home Fires”. This clump has been growing here for three seasons – this will be it’s fourth. It does spread, but isn’t invasive. I have taken the runners and started other [...]
Plant trees and help the environment! The United Nations Billion Tree Campaign is underway. It is a program that is challenging everyone to plant 1 billion trees worldwide in 2007. One of our major wholesalers – Bailey Nurseries – has joined the campaign with their part – entitled “Trees are Cool”. They have pledged 100,000 [...]
We’re excited to have our Assistant Retail Manager, Paula Kangas, submit articles for our web blog concerning roses. Paula is a certified Consulting Rosarian by the American Rose Society and obviously our resident expert! Even though my by-line is on the bottom of this – the following article is by Paula Kangas. Spring Rose Care [...]
Another sign of spring is the brilliant blossoms of the Forsythia. The bright yellow flowers come to life before the leaves emerge giving an incredible color display. Forsythia need full sun and since they do their thing first thing in the spring, the remainder of the year you will have a nice shrub that has [...]
