It’s time to water your landscape plants. Mother Nature has been pretty stingy with rainfall these past couple of years, and the subsoil is now pretty dry. In normal times when the surface soils dry out, subsoil moisture is available to gradually percolate up, or be drawn out by the large root systems of established [...]
Gary Powell, the wonderful addition to our retail staff this year, has shared his Rhubarb Dessert recipe with us – in addition to making it for the crew the past two Sundays. It is rhubarb season and you can never have too many recipes, right? My rhubarb patch here at the nursery is plentiful again this year [...]
Bailey Nurseries in St. Paul is sponsoring a contest – starting today and running through July 31st called the Great Minnesota Makeover. The concept of the contest is to create a garden makeover in one of four outdoor areas - Front Entry Way General Yard Outdoor Living Area Boulevard Area You need to provide digital [...]
Among the many shade perennials that return each spring in the garden right outside our living room window, one of my favorites is only half my idea. Living in the woods means that we have to forego most of the sunny area perennials and pick from the varieties that do well in shadier conditions. The [...]
One of the prettiest hosta in our collection is June. June presents hereself with a dense, medium-sized mound of gold-centered foliage and has a thick substance to the leaves. The mature height of a June hosta is 16″ and can go about 30-35″ wide. The blue-green margin that often streaks into the center turns a [...]
The average frost free day in southern Minnesota is supposed to be May 15th! Not this year! We are experiencing the last day of a huge low pressure system that by this afternoon will see the winds settling down, the skies becoming mostly clear and the lows predicted in the Minneapolis area to be 35 degrees. [...]
Now that spring is sprung and the growing season is well under way, we can enjoy some of the real glories spring has to offer. Flowering crabs have been putting on a show in recent days, and one of my all time favorites for eye popping color is the Prairiefire Crab. Prairiefire seems to blossom [...]
Pictured here is a sample of the many hanging baskets we just received! We have single flower baskets including fuschia, geraniums, calibrichoa and multi-flower baskets for sun and for the shade. These will make great Mother’s Day presents, decorate your door, or remove the hanger bracket, and they can be used as patio pots. With graduation [...]
The phone rings and the person on the other end is asking, “What are those shrubs that are full of purple flowers right now?” The answer is one of the many varieties of Rhododendron. There are many varieties that are hardy in our area of Minnesota – ranging in color shades of violet, pink, red [...]
The last 2 to 3 weeks, your eye may have caught the lovely red blossoms of the Red Maples that are trying to make seed. Each spring when rubrum maples wake up, the first thing they do is push out their flowers and pollinating structures. This creates a beautiful red glow throughout the entire crown [...]
Today we planted a new balled and burlapped Minnesota Hardy Redbud in Bridge Square along the river. We were hired by the Northfield Garden Club to plant this tree as part of their continuing contribution to the parks in the City of Northfield. Funds were also donated from the family of Vera Johansen toward a memorial [...]
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