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Happy Valentine's Day
'Baby its cold outside'
but love is in the air! 
 
...according to
the playfulness
of the squirrels,
the flowing sap in the trees,
the busyness of the birds
-just missing the bees!


Spring will be here before you know it, so we are getting ready too.

Please call with any questions about availability as it is changing fast.

  

Just a couple more 
weeks to grab
some great pricing
on Evergreen
spring Pre-Order.

Download and print
a pdf copy of
special - click here




 
 
Spring
Price List
Ready and
Available!

or give us a call 
(815) 943-8733 and  
we will mail a cop to your office 
or send it in an email. 
To request one click here!



NATIVE PLANT LIST AVAILABLE BY PHONE * GOING FAST

  In a study entitled
"Urban Trees and Forests of the Chicago Region", by USDA, did you know that native Oak species comprise only 12% of the forest canopy in McHenry County?  Oaks provide the greatest carbon sink and compensatory value, but are the smallest in number
and declining at an alarming
and accelerating rate.

Please call Mary Tree with any questions about plants and availability.

(815) 943-8733

Got questions about OAKS? 

We can help.
Got questions about sticks?
Call: ASK-MICK
Got questions about smells in the nursery?
Call: JAG-COME




















Acorn to 8 month seedling!

Mick, Tana and Jagger by a
2,400 month old white oak
Native Oaks  
support 435 species of caterpillars and 
provide 90% of protein for baby birds. 
(Bringing Nature Home by Douglas W. Tallamy)
 
Birds are important in seed dispersal and pest control to keep higher native plant diversity and lower pest levels.

We are undeniably creatures of the Earth, whose fate and future is utterly dependent on the well-being of the whole web into which we are woven. 
Ann O'Hara Graff
In November 2009,
Glacier Oaks Nursery
had an acorn debut
in a short National Geographic article (right). 

They requested a box of acorns for the photo shoot that got planted and are now trees about the size of the ones from the same crop in our fields (below).

Its a 5-7 year process to grow a sturdy oak solid enough for your planting projects!

Reserve your spring oaks this Fall and get 5 free oak seedlings next spring when you pick up!   
 







 


 
 
   
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Watch
the
Oaks of McHenry County


 
a film by  
Artland Story Group

Check out the outstanding work of the

Land Conservancy of McHenry County!   

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GONatives!logo TRADEMARKED
Sustainable nursery practices are better for your trees and better for the environment.   

Glacier Oaks RootKeeperŪ 

Native Trees and Shrubs  

 

 

  are propagated and grown using these methods -producing native trees that are easy to transplant and start growing!

 


Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.  A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.  It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Aldo Leopold "The Land Ethic"