Autumn Blaze Maple – Great Color Times Two! Over the last 15 years, Autumn Blaze Maple has gained widespread popularity as a fast growing shade tree with excellent red fall color. Tolerant of a wide variety of soil types, and climates from frigid Zone 3 to a balmy zone 8. Autumn Blaze Maple rapidly develops [...]
Tall, lean and handsome aptly describes a beautiful variety of Norway Spruce I saw recently. Dense and upright, ‘Cupressina’ Norway Spruce sports the beautiful deep green disease resistant foliage of Norway Spruce while offering a great choice for smaller spaces. Useful as an attractive specimen or focal point evergreen, ‘Cupressina’ Norway Spruce could also be [...]
An early harbinger of spring is the Northern Sun Forsythia tree. This bright yellow beacon grows to only 8′-12′ tall and 7′-9′ wide, making it perfect for small spaces providing a great vertical accent in borders or foundation plantings. This hardy forsythia, zone 4-8, sports its huge bright yellow flowers in early spring before the [...]
We would like to extend the opportunity for you, your child’s class, your service club, your church group, your softball/bowling team, your carpool, your neighbors…. to join us in sponsoring tree plantings for our city, to be planted in public spaces. Knecht’s will provide trees at half price. As a sponsor of a tree for [...]
There are so many benefits from planting trees – – – – a - Shade trees can reduce energy bills by 15 to 40 percent! The shade from trees can reduce the amount of times that your air conditioner kicks on during the heat of the summer! In the winter time – without leaves – [...]
