Today, Jim and Todd finished up a residential "make-over". More and more people are re-doing their existing landscapes. A family here in Northfield added onto their home last fall and with the addition came two egress windows on the lower level. We created a limestone wall to solve the elevation change and add a stunning [...]
The last phase of the landscape installation after the plants were installed, is the application of a 3" layer of mulch. The Vincent’s chose a deep chocolate brown colored mulch and it sets off the plants beautifully. Mulching plants after they are planted serves so many purposes. It obviously creates a finished look to the [...]
On today’s journey over to the home of Vince and Lynn Vincent – where our landscaping project this week is taking place – I find that Jim and Todd are doing the bed prep. Backing up in time a little, our landscape designer, Kristin Lucas, outlined the beds and sidewalk about 2 weeks ago. She [...]
Wow – says it when you look at the spring, early summer flower display put on by the Purple Robe Locust. Leif came in the office yesterday all excited after checking one of our production blocks. Grabbing the camera he took me back to the rack where the Purple Robe Locust were. These trees are [...]
We often here people remark at the nursery – this must be the most fun place to work – look at all these plants. This is true when we have so many different trees blossoming or showing their colors throughout the season. Right now, one of the trees with a very unique, very striking colorful [...]
Last week, Leif was asked by the Northfield News to submit an article for their environmental section. He did an article detailing some of the best reasons to plant trees – Go Green! "One of the simplest ways to go green and save greenbacks is to plant trees. When good choices are made for tree [...]
Today, Jim and Todd are finishing up on the installation of edging blocks. The typical edging that is used on landscape jobs is the heavy duty, black vinyl edging. This homeowner has chosen the block because he wants to eliminate as much trimming of his lawn as possible and wants to have the wheel of [...]
This week we welcomed back the rest of our returning college and high school workers. Pictured here are Peter Douglass, Kevin Vig and Kevin Borek and floating in air – Caitlyn Borek. The guys are all in college and Caitlyn just graduated from Northfield High School this past weekend. Peter and Kevin Borek have been [...]
Todd and Jim completed the sidewalk today and it looks great! Now they’re continuing work on the concrete edging material the customer selected. The customer wanted something that would lay flat and was wide enough for their riding lawnmower. Tomorrow – that will be done and then onto the plantings! Share this:ShareFacebookEmail
We now have a limited supply of the Princeton American Elm tree. This American Elm is highly resistant to Dutch Elm Disease and has proven success in the landscape. It is a true American Elm, and not a hybrid. Other attributes that make it a great shade tree is that it is extremely tolerant of [...]
Our landscape crews are busy despite the rain this week. We are creating a backyard escape for a new home here in Northfield which includes stone edging with a flagstone sidewalk from the garage service door wrapping around to their new deck. Jim Westlund (our landscape foreman) and Todd Marnie enjoy creating these unique, one [...]
