August is the best time to schedule a site consultation with Behnke Design and Landscape. Thoughtful landscape planning takes time. Clients that contact us in August are able to meet with our Design staff, complete the design process, and move quickly to have their project installed by early fall!

For more information on Behnke Design and Landscape services see our main website at www.Behnkes.Com

Behnke Nurseries is proud and excited to join “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”.

We were selected by Classic Homes of Maryland (the home builder) and requested to design and install the landscaping for The Jackson Family in Poolesville, MD in an intense four-day construction period. Watch ABC news for more information about this wonderful project during this week. You can also go to www.classicmd.net to learn about the Jackson family.

Watch for Behnke Nurseries Landscaping crew this fall on ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” during their 2 hour season opener.

If you would be interested in being a spectator at the site or making a donation to the family, please contact Classic Homes at www.classicmd.net. Classic Homes is looking for contractors that can help. If you can help or know someone in the trade please go to Classic Homes web site.

Behnke Nurseries is pleased to announce that we have opened a Landscape office at our garden center in Potomac MD, to offer more convenient service for our Montgomery County customers.

Now you can meet with our innovative designers at either our Beltsville or our Potomac location. (Since our designers work both in the field and office, meetings at either location are by appointment only.)

Behnke Nurseries Design and Installation staff will work with you through all the stages of your landscape project. From the initial consultation and site visit with our designer, developing a formal design, to the installation of plants and hardscape features, you will feel that your “outdoor living space” is in the best of hands.

Thanks to the “buying power” of our garden centers, Behnke’s has access to hard to find types and sizes of plants from growers from across the country. Whether you are looking for that “sense of place” feeling that comes from a landscape of plants from the mid-Atlantic, a garden that reflects your heritage, or a landscape that reflects current trends or fashions, our designers and install crews will make sure your dreams come true.

Working with Behnke Nurseries Landscaping assures you that the installation crews are Behnke Nurseries’ employees. We work with you from start to finish and don’t vanish after your project is complete. With a registered landscape architect on staff, we provide services from simple tree and shrub replacement plantings, to full scale design-build projects incorporating patios, walkways, walls, outdoor kitchens, exterior lighting and fencing. Our main focus is our residential clients but we also service discriminating commercial companies.

It is a good idea to plan ahead to get a professional plan! Call 240-473-6733 or email us at landscaping@behnkes.net as soon as possible. If an operator is unable to answer your call immediately due to the volume of incoming calls in the Spring season, please leave a voice message so that we may return your call.

Landscape Spring Cleaning!

Call Behnke Design & Landscape today at 240-473-6733 and schedule a Spring yard cleanup service!

A typical cleanup will include:

• Leaf and winter debris removal
• Seasonal Pruning
• Pre-emergent weed prevention and feed for landscape beds
• Bed edging
• Top dressing mulch

This is a great way to start the Spring off right, and will make any touchup work later in the year a simple task.

This offer is limited to our existing local service areas of the Washington, DC Metro area (excluding Virginia). Please call 240-473-6733 for further details.

Job Fairs:   We will be interviewing candidates for positions in our garden centers and design and installation department at our annual job fairs. If you enjoy working with people and enjoy gardening, then stop by for a chat-no appointment necessary.  We have many seasonal positions for spring offering flexible hours, and employee discounts on plants and merchandise.

Job fairs at both of our garden centers (Beltsville and Potomac) from 10AM to 4PM, Saturday, February 23, 2008.  For information visit our website at http://www.behnkes.com/