Saturday, April 25, 2009

Horticulture Hints

Watch for sawflies on your trees and shrubs and eradicate by hosing down.








Pull noxious weed Garlic Mustard then make pesto! See the Prodigal Gardens web site for more information and pesto recipe.




What's your horticulture hint?

What's Bloomin' in Your Yard?

Hi all.

I just thought I'd share with you some of the fabulous things that are boomin' in my yard this spring. What's bloomin' in your yard?


Puschkinia scilloides
Striped SquillGalanthus nivalis
Snowdrops




Iris reticulata







Eranthis hyemalis
Winter Aconite

Friday, April 24, 2009

About Heidi

Spring greetings -

I’m Heidi Heiland, owner and Chief Experience Officer at Heidi’s Lifestyle Gardens. Welcome to our blog. We’ve developed this blog for you, the garden community. I believe we develop a strong family, community and environment through collaboration and learning. Gardening began with our grand parents by sharing slips of iris over the fence. Through this blog we hope to inform, share and inspire one another. I hope you will join us by clicking on “Follow” in the upper right of this page.

A little about me outside of the garden. I'm blissfully married with three children and one brand new granddaughter! Oh and I can’t forget my golden, Zel and lab Bea. I'm a former Vestry Member of St. Martin’s by the Lake Church in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota; where I was baptized, confirmed and married, twice! I enjoy alpine ski racing, playing 4.5 league tennis, traveling, listening to music and of course designing flower arrangements.

Hopefully together we can Bloom On!

You can learn more about me and Heidi’s Lifestyle Gardens at our web site: http://www.bloomonmn.com/heidicrew.html. I hope to hear from you soon!

-Heidi Heiland

Monday, April 20, 2009

Welcome...About Heidi's Lifestyle Gardens

Hello and welcome to Heidi's Lifestyle Gardens' (HLG) blog. We've developed this blog as a resource to teach, learn and serve gardeners and garden lovers in and around the Midwest.

Heidi's Lifestyle Gardens (HLG) is a full service garden design and landscape company based in Corcoran, Minnesota. We've been teaching, learning and serving our community for 30 years. We're proud to partner with our community by providing sustainable landscape design and installation for home, business and non-profit organizations.

We aspire to nourish our nation with edible landscapes and connect our kids, and whole family, back to the earth. Our idealistic company also collaborates on educational opportunities – presentations, corporate events, and even kid’s birthday parties – to share how to be stewards of the land.

We hope you will join in our conversation on topics such as: garden planing & management, victory gardens, garden solutions, how to be stewards of the earth, sustainability and so much more.

To learn more about our company visit us at: http://www.bloomonmn.com/.

In our next post we'll introduce you to our founder, Heidi Heiland.