Watch Heidi's 

Kare 11 segment live on 

Oct 9th @ 4 pm 

to learn how to make 

potpourri from your garden.

 

Watch Heidi discuss

In mid-October, Heidi along with HLG's Jamieson Pool
and Taylor Camilon
will be attending the
National PLANET Conference (Professional Landcare Network) in KY to study how to run a more resilient and focused company.

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Holiday Lighting

HLG's own Perry Post created this recipe by hybridizing a mince meat pie recipe with that of an apple pie recipe. The result was so yummy that he won awards twice at the Annual Green Tomato Cook-Off in Minneapolis!

Full recipe is posted here:

 

Happy Fall, one of Minnesota's best seasons, in my opinion.  

 

I also have an opinion (after 34 years in the green industry) about the Trends of Healing, Food and Water, coming down the landscape gardening road.  It is HLG's goal to bring these to your home landscape as general principal.  We wish to understand how you feel this may impact your experiences outside. 

 

Healing:  I just attended the 40th annual National American Horticultural Therapy Association Symposium in Mpls to continue bringing my certification of Horticultural Therapy (HT) forward.  Sister Kenny, Ebenezer Senior Housing, Melrose Institute and our beloved Arboretum all have established programs.  HLG also brings to our clients Universal Design, which implies access for all with focus on experiential benefits.  

 

 

Water:  We focus on numerous elements to offer water conservation.  To name a few, we design moisture loving plants in low areas next to other moisture loving plants to confirm right plant for the right place, we install drought tolerant plantings such as succulents in containers, we encourage appropriate irrigation practices, and we install permeable paver systems.  

 

Food:  We infuse many edibles throughout your gardenscape, annual, perennial and woody. Along with installing these healthy and tasty plants we can assist with their harvest.

 

Existing clients, please call your designer to share what practices you would like to launch next year. Not yet a client? Call us at 763.475.4960 or visit our website BloomOnMN.com  

 

Happy Harvest Home!

Evening air is getting crisp and planting time for spring flowering bulbs is upon us once again.

Every fall we hear how people love the giant purple flowering alliums, but also how they are concerned that they do not return year after year.

Our experience at HLG indicates that giant alliums, being only marginally hardy in Minnesota, tend to decrease in size, quantity, and vigor with each

 passing year until finally they simply give up and disappear.

That being said, we LOVE the giant alliums and recommend planting them in your gardens. There is no substitute for their sheer size and stunning stature. To keep them looking gorgeous simply plant a handful of new bulbs every few years.

Call us at 763.475.4960 for an allium, daffodil, and tulip garden design or consult.

HLG is a bee-friendly company and ask that you use discretion when dealing with wasps. Many wasps make nests in the ground, but so do the large, fuzzy, yellow and black BUMBLE BEES. They are native Minnesota pollinators, they are extremely docile, and they have no interest in stinging people. Unless located in a nuisance area, bumble bees should be allowed to finish out their season in peace. Typically they do NOT return to the same nest the following year.

Fall colors are moving in and the garden flowers are beginning to fade. Now is the perfect time to do some perennial garden modifications.

 

Call Heidi's Lifestyle Gardens at 763.475.4960 or visit BloomOnMN.com for fall perennial garden ideas or a consult.