Monthly Archives: March 2009

Proven Winners

We are proud to announce that we are a 2009 Proven Winners Certified Garden Center.  Through the iGarden program from Proven Winners, owners and employees are provided with plant selling tips, customer service tools and merchandising techniques to help them better serve consumers in helping them select and grow the right Proven Winners plant varieties [...]

Amy’s New Baby

Amy Voight, one of our landscape designers, and her husband Nathan, welcomed a new baby boy to their family on March 28, 2009.  Timothy James Voight was also welcomed by his two older brothers – Caleb and Joshua.  He is absolutely adorable.  Little Timmy (as his brothers call him) will be keeping Mom busy for [...]

Kid’s Can Plant Flowers for Mom!

Bring your children ages 3 and up to the nursery on Saturday morning, April 25th,  starting at 10:30 to pot up their very own flower pot for Mom, for Mother’s Day!  We will care for their pot of flowers here in the greenhouses until Mother’s Day weekend when they can come in and pick it [...]

Twist-n-Shout Hydrangea

Twist-n-Shout Hydrangea is the newest addition joining the original Endless Summer and Blushing Bride in the Endless Summer Hydrangea Collection.  Abundant, gorgeous blossoms of pink or periwinkle blue (depending on soil type) with lacey deep-pink centers bloom on old and new wood all summer long. Zone 4 hardy, easy to care for, it sports sturdy [...]

Last Call for Pruning Oaks & Elms

I will also be sharing some of my blogs for blog entries at the Northfield News. To prevent the transmission of diseases such as Oak Wilt and Dutch Elm Disease, it is best to prune these varieties during the late fall, winter and very earliest part of spring. Up until about April 7th, you should [...]

Lupine

Our plant spotlight today is a new perennial Lupine.   Lupines are colorful favorites in the spring and summer garden.  They can be used as accent plants with shrubs, or used in the back of a perennial garden.  They are a wonderful complement with irises, peonies, bellflowers and annuals.   Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds to their colorful stalks [...]

Spruce Trees, Maple Trees and More!

Every spring we put our carry-over balled and burlapped (B&B) trees on sale at 50% off.  What this means is that the trees that we dug from the field last spring and that didn’t find a home, are on sale at an incredible savings!  We have evergreen trees, ornamental trees and shade trees in this [...]