Fall is officially here. What happened to the Summer?

The turning of the leaves on the shade trees should get you motivated to add some trees that will give your landscape some beautiful color in the fall of the year.

I was out this sunny Sunday morning taking a few pictures of 2 types of Maples Arbor Hill Tree Farm grows & sells.
Pictured are the Fall Fiesta Sugar Maple & the Autumn Blaze Maple.

The Fall Fiesta has an orange fall color & the Autumn Blaze is red.

Both trees are considered a rounded shape tree. Both giving good shade. The color of the leaves is green in the summer.

The Autumn Blaze will grow faster than the Fall Fiesta. We are also selling a type of pyramidal Autumn Blaze called an Armstrong Maple. The Armstrong Maple will stay narrower at a mature size, but keeping the characteristics of an Autumn Blaze Maple.

Arbor Hill Tree Farm has various sizes of shade trees to select from.

Fall is also a great time to add evergreens for great color & beauty all winter.We have many evergreens to pick from. Customers can walk through our fields & hand pick from thousands.

Give us a call, e-mail us or Stop out & see us. Fall hours are Sat 8-5, Sunday 10-3 or days & evenings during week are by chance or appt.

Thanks, Jerry Knutson
Arbor Hill Tree Farm
jknut@visi.com
651-459-5026

Arbor Hill Tree Farm removes trees as well as planting new trees.

Recent storms in the Twin Cities has caused tree damage to many communities. Arbor Hill Tree Farm has the ability to remove damaged trees & replant new trees to replace damaged trees. Cost for removal of existing damaged trees depends on how large the trees are. Please contact us for an estimate.

We have a great selection of shade trees as well as evergreens to help replant & replace old trees.

Arbor Hill Tree Farm will be an exhibitor for the first time ever at the 2012 Washington County fair August 1st to the 5th in Lake Elmo, Mn. We hope to see you there. We will be displaying 5 varieties of evergreen trees that we grow & sell at our tree farm in Cottage Grove. We will also have 1 shade tree & have available our current tree specials price list & fall flier. Both items can also be accessed on my Tree specials page & my price list page.
Thankfully we have been very fortunate to be getting adequate rainfall this growing season. Other parts of the nation have not been so lucky.
As we get into later summer & fall, now is a good time to start planning your tree planting projects. We have a great supply of trees to select from.Since we are the grower of most of what we sell, you are able to walk through the fields & pick from literally thousands of trees.
I have included an interesting picture I took this spring as the evergreen trees were budding. This picture is a close up of a White Spruce. The red color is spruce cones that are forming on the tree. It almost appears as though it has Christmas decorations on it.
Hope to see you at the fair, Jerry

Spring at Arbor Hill Tree Farm has been very busy. The rainfall we have recieved to date has been very beneficial to the evergreeens we grow. Last fall was a very dry season, but thankfully the extremely mild winter we had prevented damage to the trees.

We want to thank all our customers for there business. This has been a record year for sales at Arbor Hill Tree Farm.

We have been busy with yearly field maintenance & pruning as well as keeping up with tree planting & installations at customers homes.

We typically are about 1 week out from the time an order is placed till we can have the trees planted in your yard.

Summer will be here in just a few days, but we continue to have a great selection of trees & can plant all summer into late fall.

Because we grow most of all our own trees, selection is always exellent. Varieties we grow include Black Hills Spruce, Colorado Blue & Green Spruce, White Pine, Austrian Pine, Balsam Fir, Tamarack, Canadian Hemlock, Fat Albert Spruce, Black Spruce, Pyramidal Techney Arborvitae & Serbian Spruce. Many sizes are available from potted, burlapped & tree spaded sizes.

Take a look at our website for Tree Specials. Also we have a page dedicated to each tree we sell if you are not familiar with the trees characteristics. Our installation methods page describes the different methods we use for planting & installing trees.

We look forward to helping you with your tree needs for your landscape project. We are typically open Saturday 8-5, Sunday 10-3, and weekdays & evenings are by appointment or chance.

Thanks, Jerry Knutson

February & March is a great time to place your Tree Orders for several reasons.
BIG SAVINGS FOR ORDERS PLACED IN FEBRUARY & MARCH.
Arbor Hill Tree Farm is discounting 5 & 6 ft Colorado & Black Hills Spruce by $70.00 each.
Also save $70.00 per tree on 6-9 ft White Pine, Balsam Fir & 3in. Diameter Autumn Blaze Maple Trees.
EARLY PLANTING DATES.
By placing your tree orders in February & March, you will get on our installation schedule & an early planting date.
GREAT SELECTION
Many of our customers like to walk through our fields & hand pick the trees they want. Coming out early for the biggest selection of trees available.
MILD WEATHER
The mild winter & lack of snow has made walking through our fields to pick out trees pleasant & easy.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO ORDER YOUR TREES NOW FOR THE BEST SAVINGS OF THE YEAR!
Tree orders in February & March can be placed in 2 ways:
Phone Orders-Place order now by contacting Jerry at 651-459-5026. Orders can be processed by e-mail or regular mail now & customers can come out at a later date to pick out trees. In Person- Please call ahead to set up an appointment to visit Arbor Hill Tree Farm.
All orders require a 50% deposit. Payments method by cash or checks are preferred, but we do accept visa, discover & Mastercard. THIS OFFER EXPIRES 4-1-2012.
Arbor Hill Tree Farm will be at the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show at the Minneapolis Convention Center from February 29th till March 4th. We will be at booth 1244. Please stop by and see us.

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This past weekend was a great opportunity to get out and enjoy some beautiful scenery made by nature.

The warm days have melted the little snow we have, adding moisture to the air. The mild nights & lack of wind made conditions ideal for frost to form on the trees. Close up it appeared as though the trees were growing fur.

I think the moisture in general should be beneficial to the trees, given the lack of moisture we had going into winter.

I walked through our fields at Arbor Hill Tree Farm & took several pictures. You can see them by clicking on the images on the right side of the page.