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Ironwood Trees
It’s April 14th and I’m looking out the window of our home office on a VERY dreary, 38 degree, late winter (where is spring?) day. Cold rain has been fairly steady most of the day, and it has made...
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A Lifeline for Birds
Winter is a time of stress for most wildlife, and often the most crucial period of the winter is the last few weeks. If wildlife is able to locate at least some type of food in the days just before...
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Firefall Maple
Firefall Maple is a little known but excellent hybrid maple variety developed with the combined efforts of the University of Minnesota and The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. This...
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Firebird Flowering Crabapple
‘Firebird’ dwarf white flowering crab is a winner in every way. Extremely disease resistant, ‘Firebird’ dwarf crab keeps nice, clean foliage throughout summer and fall. This is a great improvement...
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Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry
Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry is a lovely small tree/large shrub that shines in many seasons of the year. Cold hardy all the way to the Canadian border, Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry naturally...
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Autumn Gold Ginkgo
Photo courtesy of Bailey Nurseries Autumn Gold’ Ginkgo has the distinctive appearance and outstanding architecture to be a tree that turns heads from its youth through middle age and especially in...
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Forsythia and Magnolia
Forsythia – Shrub form Magnolia Forsythia – Tree form What’s doing the blooming this week? The Forsythia – both the shrubs and tree form are absolutely beautiful with their buttery yellow flowers...
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The Awakening
It’s happening. The awakening has begun. Anticipation has been building since the oak trees started dropping acorns last September. For some fifteen years I have collected acorns from the mighty...
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Container Gardening, Strawbales, and Redbuds
With the warm weather (and spring) finally here – it has a been a blur of activity here at the garden center. This past Thursday evening, we hosted a container gardening workshop. There were beautiful...
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Dwarf Korean Lilac Shrub – and Tree Form
Photo courtesy of Bailey Nurseries The Dwarf Korean Lilacs are lovely right now. The pale lilac blooms have a sweet fragrance. They attract butterflies and also make great cut flower arrangements for...
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Japanese Tree Lilac
Japanese Tree Lilacs are now in full bloom and putting on quite a show! Japanese Tree Lilacs are versatile and hardy ornamental trees that have very showy blossoms AND are among the most fragrant...
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Summer Planting Success
Success with summer plantings of trees, shrubs and perennials is highly likely when you follow a few simple steps that fulfill the basic needs of the plant materials. If you follow these steps to...
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Basswoods in Bloom
In recent days, a heavenly sweet fragrance has filled the air in the woods where we live, all around our nursery office, and in certain areas of our tree production and sales areas. I’ve been looking...
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Crimson Sunset Maple
Purple leaf maples have long been admired for their season long color, nice rounded shape, and ability to grow well in clay soils that are well drained. Crimson Sunset Maple Crimson Sunset Maplephoto...
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Autumn Gold Ginkgo
Very few tree varieties can beat the versatility and character displayed by Autumn Gold Ginkgo in difficult urban conditions. Autumn Gold Ginkgo is a non-fruiting male selection that matures to a...
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Showy Mountain Ash (Sorbus Decora)
Berries of the Showy Mtn. Ash For people who enjoy helping wildlife and planting native plants, the Showy Mountain Ash tree is a real winner. Showy Mountain Ash can be found growing wild in the...
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Disease Resistant Elms
The elm varieties now available at Knecht’s Nurseries are all extremely resistant to Dutch Elm Disease and grow very quickly into beautiful shade trees in almost any soil. Decades of extensive...
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Firefall Maple
Firefall Maple is a fairly new hybrid maple that was created by a joint breeding program of the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Firefall Maple has several...
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Fat Albert Blue Spruce
Outstanding blue needle color and handsome, uniform and dense shape help make Fat Albert Blue Spruce the standard by which other varieties of Colorado Spruce are measured. Consistently delivering the...
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Sienna Glen Maple
Sienna Glen Maples are displaying their electric orange/red fall color this week. A naturally occurring hybrid of red maple and silver maple that was discovered right here in the great state of...
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