This is the time of the year when customers often ask us if it is too late to plant trees, shrubs and perennials. The short answer is a definite – NO IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO PLANT! Success with summer plantings is easy to achieve. Trees, shrubs and perennials have the same needs whether it [...]
We are excited about our upcoming Shade Garden seminar The Shady Gardener Seminar Saturday morning – July 18th 10:30 am – 11:30 am $10.00 per person This seminar will feature interesting shade perennials (it’s not just hosta anymore) that every shade gardener should know about! Come and check out our shady characters! – 6 [...]
One of my favorite shade perennials at home blossoming right now is the Campanula ‘Samantha’. It is tucked in between two of our Ely greenstone boulders and it is full of lavender-blue blossoms. A compact long flowering Campanula with fragrant flowers, it blooms heavily in early summer. It will rebloom with periodic deadheading. I have this [...]
Heidi Brosseau, our retail manager, made a display this afternoon of all of the different Yarrow that we have in bloom right now. Achillea – Yarrow – is a very hardy perennial. We have seen wild Yarrow growing up in the Boundary Waters during the summer on our camping trips. A low maintenance perennial, it [...]
A rain barrel is a container that is connected to roof gutters and collects the rain water – thereby reducing the amount of water reaching surface waters. You can then use this recycled water to water flowers, your grass or even washing your car. Not only do rain barrels save money on watering bills, they [...]
A shrub for part-shade that virtually glows is the Golden Carousel Barberry. We have several in an arc under our Autumn Spire Maple, with Blue Chip Junipers in front of those. In the very background of this photo, between the barberry, you will see one of our large blue hosta. The hosta gets mostly shade [...]
Another hosta variety that is a favorite is ‘Diana Remembered’. This is a medium sized hosta that has a white creamed colored edge with a vibrant blue-green on the inside of the leaf. The leaf is slightly corrugated. Named after Princess Diana, it has a large white flower that is one of the most fragrant hostas [...]
Do you have stepping stones that weeds somehow find their way to between the stones? I have a large diameter perennial and annual bed at home with annuals around the outside 2-3 feet and then perennials on the inside of the bed. Instead of stepping between the annuals to do maintenance on the perennials, I [...]
Leaf tatter on certain varieties of trees has caused them to look as if they are diseased, sick or being attacked by insects. For the last several weeks I have taken a steady stream of calls about trees that are looking bad. The calls started coming in a couple of days after we had 2 [...]
A reminder to those of you that are re-doing your landscaping this summer! Think about entering the Great Minnesota Makeover Contest. Bailey Nurseries is sponsoring this contest which started on May 22nd and runs through July 31st. We are a participating garden center. See our Blog Post from May 22nd for more information! Enter your yard – before [...]
The Praying Hands Hosta has to be one of the most intriguing varieties out in the marketplace. The upright narrow leaves of this plant gives it an unuual look like no other! Each green leaf is rolled and folded into a tube shape, displaying the prominent vens on the back of the leaf A thin [...]
Summer planting is successful planting. Long warm days give newly planted trees, shrubs and perennials all the daylight they need to establish new root systems over the remainder of the summer and fall. Simply provide each plant with adequate, but not excessive moisture and nutrition, and they are sure to follow their internal genetic programming [...]
Yesterday, I spent a little time weeding the actual rows in my garden – after the rain those pesky weeds popped up, but it wasn’t a long and laborious task. The weed barrier fabric that I have in the garden provided a fairly dry place to work even though the soil was wet, and there [...]
The establishment of the highly destructive emerald ash borer in Minnesota will once again force us to re-evaluate what type of trees we should be planting. When Dutch Elm Disease devastated our urban and native forests starting in the 1950′s the same question was asked since so many communities had planted such large numbers of [...]
We have just received an order of some unique hosta varieties and a few standard varieties. We have these available in very limited quantities as this was an order of a few of many varieties – not alot of a few. The hosta that I am most excited about is the hosta ‘Fingerprint’. It is [...]
