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Dear customers and friends,     

Our thermometer read 70ºF yesterday afternoon. 
Seasonal transition is beginning to bloom! 

We are preparing for an early digging season.
Weather, being the very best reason!

Better to be ready and get the steam rolling
We probably have better odds than political polling!

Arborvitae March Special - tree of life!
click here for pdf

Take a look at our early Arborvitae Special below and take advantage of this landscape staple at a really great price.
 
 W H A T' s with the W E A T H E R ?

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.  
~John Lubbock

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.  
~Patrick Young

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
~George Carlin 

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

Spring
Price List

or give us a call
(815) 943-8733 and
we will mail a copy 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

GONatives!logo TRADEMARKED 


Sustainable nursery practices  

are better for your trees  

and better for the environment.   

 
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"