It’s that time of year again – the leaves are disappearing and views you had forgotten about are making themselves known again. This fall, get started on that living fence to keep your privacy, sanity, or simply to shield you from the winter winds. Here are five favorite large-scale screeners and five favorite small-scale screeners.
Step into a plant-lover’s dream with this photo tour of former long-time Behnke’s employee Jim Dronenburg’s garden.
Check out this little bit of Behnke’s history. Stephanie shares her memories and a video of the installations of our two behemoth boilers from the ’50s and ’60s that still heat our greenhouses today!
Don’t give up on flowers just yet. See what’s looking good this time of year in our perennial display gardens and get inspiration for your own October garden!
Now that the warm weather annual season is winding down, we’re evaluating how the annuals in our pollinator display garden have performed this year. This is your chance to learn from our successes and failures!
Berries in the winter! What could be better? We could all use more interest in our winter landscapes, and this native holly is a good place to start. Here, losing leaves is a good thing – the better to admire…
Cheery golden-yellow flowers greet you (and happy pollinators) in summer while tidy, dainty foliage mixes well with bolder textures and colors. Several forms have rosemary-shaped, blue-green leaves that pair well with purples, golds, or white accents from neighboring shrubs or…
Called “heavenly bamboo” because the tapered leaves and clumping stems look a bit like bamboo but without the running habit. (Bamboo is a grass, so they’re actually not related at all.) Showy red berries hang in clusters all winter on…
“Red-tip” has two claims to fame that it does really well – rapid growth and brilliant red new leaves. Valuable for blocking a view, unpruned plants will even flower and develop into sizeable specimens. Regularly trimmed, they provide multiple growth…
Rose-of-Sharon are like other hibiscus in the appearance of their flowers, though they are a bit smaller than the dieback perennial types and don’t come in as many fruity colors as the tropical types. They make up for this in…
Just like the name suggests, these are magnets for butterflies and other pollinators like bees, moths, and hummingbirds. They’re great bang-for-your-buck in limited-space gardens, too, since they bloom for such a long time and offer fragrance to boot. So many…
Another of the favorite “old-timey” shrubs has undergone a rebirth of late – Weigela. Resilient and valuable assets for multi-season interest, choices now abound in foliage colors and shrub sizes, with many repeat-blooming better than they already did. Leaves can…