On July 31st – we say good-bye to Grant Rozier. Grant was one of our temporary college workers. He graduated from Carleton College and stayed on in Northfield through the end of July. He worked for a short time with our production crew and we then moved him over to the retail division where he [...]
Last Friday evening we had the pleasure of having Gordy and Jo Bailey for dinner at our home. We also enjoyed the company of our retail manager, Heidi Gervais and her friend Scott Brosseau and our landscape division manager (and right hand) Jim Westlund. We have only been in the business for 15 years where [...]
We are beginning to sound like a broken record… water, water, and water. Leif’s article for this week’s Northfield News gives some necessary advice – something we’ve all heard but in some cases – many of us need just a gentle reminder…. Here goes…………. Landscape plants in the Northfield/Dundas area need moisture if they have [...]
Leif’s article for the Northfield News last week answered one of the questions that we have been getting alot of lately – “Can we plant right now?” Read on… During the heat of midsummer we are asked quite often if it is still all right to plant trees, shrubs and perennials. The short answer is [...]
The following article has been submitted by our retail manager – Heidi Gervais. Buttonbush – Cephalanthus occidentalis With the current interest in rain gardening, I decided to mention a shrub that thrives in those conditions. Buttonbush is native from New Brunswick to California and south. Normally, in its natural environment, you would find it growing [...]
We will once again be celebrating Crazy Daze with other Northfield merchants… Come and enjoy the heat wave — and pick up some really good deals on trees, shrubs and perennials. Selected plants will be 60% off – some 50% off…. Come early – don’t miss the best deals!
We are once again faced with a drought here in Minnesota! The occasional rains are just not enough to sustain plants that have been planted this year or last year. For landscape plants – once they’ve been planted – will take a year or better to become fully established in which their roots are out [...]
Hosta – hosta – hosta —– there can never be enough, right? This morning I walked through our hosta garden to see how they were doing (and talked to them a little as well). Two that caught my attention this morning are Risky Business and Zippity Do Dah. Risky Business… With it’s white center it [...]
This year alot of our landscape customers are folks with homes that they’ve been at many years, but are re-doing their landscaping. A “Landscape Redesign”. Our crews this week are working at a home on the south side of Northfield. We ripped out all of their overgrown shrubs that have been there for many years [...]
The annual garden tour hosted by the Northfield Garden Club was a huge success and we really enjoyed being able to open up our yard for others to enjoy. For me, the most exciting part was having Northfield’s own Fred Somers paint in our garden! Fred Somers specializes in landscape paintings and to have him [...]
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