This is a great time to cut firewood. With the early snow melt, and cooler or slightly below freezing nights, it may be possible to get to some of those dead trees you’ve had your eye one. Even if you can’t drive right to the trees due to soggy ground conditions, you can carry in [...]
Do you need a hostess gift for Easter or another spring event? We have these cute little spring planters with Hyacinth bulbs in that are just the way to say “thank you”. They’re only $6.99 – perhaps get one just for yourself – while supplies last. They’ll be up and blooming in no time! Share [...]
We have our plant material uncovered from it’s winter storage and will be working over the next two weeks on getting it into position in our sales blocks and production blocks. Our designers are also busy working on plans and consultations for customers. We are here now from 8 am to 4:30 Monday through Friday [...]
The heavy and deep snowpack we had this winter means there is very little frost in the ground. Even though it has seemed as if winter will never end, and all the plants will wake up late, we just might see buds swelling at normal or slightly earlier than normal dates since many trees and [...]
What’s so exciting about this picture? This is what the crabapples (berries) on our Red Jewel Flowering Crab are looking like today! March 17th! They are still a very bright red – with a few a little bleaker looking. What a fantastic tree! The Red Jewel is an ornamental tree that fits in smaller spaces. [...]
We have a new landscape designer! John Oehlenschlager, along with our lead designer Kristin Lucas are both busy setting up appointments and booking landscape jobs! Check out our specials page – they are offering an early-bird discount for plans drawn before April 1st! John comes with 24 years of experience – as a designer and [...]
We have a new Facebook page that I’m trying to keep up with. Being seasonal, it’s hard to put things on there in the dead of winter, but now with a few things starting to happen and spring right on the doorstep – it’ll be much more relevant. Just search for Knecht’s Nurseries & Landscaping [...]
Spring has arrived in the greenhouses! We have been planting perennial plugs for the last several days and the houses are filling up quickly. We’ll have the usual go-to perennials, but we have many of the newest releases coming this spring as well. I asked Heidi – our retail manager – what she was excited [...]
Did you know that there are many new varieties of Elm trees now available that have very high resistance to Dutch Elm Diease? At long last, we will once again begin to see stately Elms offering the benefits of their rapid growth and cooling shade. Elms are fast growing trees that offer plenty of shade. [...]
The time period from mid-March to mid-April is especially good for pruning trees. With no leaves on the trees, it is much easier to evaluate the structure of the tree, choosing weakly attached branches for removal and leaving strongly attached branches to become the permanent framework. The next month is also a good time for [...]
