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The Healing Energy of Spring
Landscaped gardens are healing, energizing,
beautiful, provide slow local food, connect you back to your roots and to
others.
The healing part is of huge
importance to me personally. I shared
the love of gardening with my dear mother-in-law, Helen. She sadly died on Valentine's Day, at the age
of 76 on a day the planet is filled with love! I was honored when she asked me to care for her flower bouquets in
hospice. I am familiar with the healing
energy that fills spaces when God's green earth is touched with intention. I knew Helen would be calmed by this action
and selfishly I knew what solace this exercise would provide for me. I was enriched by the complete death
experience that the Heiland family recently shared. I know part of this, for me, was embracing
life...embracing the flowers sent, the bright colors, the fragrances, the
diversity, the words from loved ones, the knowledge that we are honoring
another.
We all struggle, have tough
times, die. Surrounding oneself with
plants, sun, wind, water at these critical times can be the catalyst we were
looking for. Life begins anew in the
spring. Helen - I will think of you with
the first bud break of the lilacs, with the setting sun, on Dan and my 8th
Wedding Anniversary on the Spring Equinox and when we hug our grandbaby.
Life begins anew in the spring...for all of
us.
Heidi Heiland
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Garden of the Month
The sweet smell of crab apple blooms will soon fill
the spring air.
Since 2006, we have been honored to install and maintain the garden pictured here which has provided color and fragrance for years at the top of Superior Blvd in Wayzata.
In 2009 HLG redesigned this landscape to save the crab apple trees while building improvements were
being made. We invite you to experience the 2010 gardenscape of the new Edina
Realty Building in Wayzata.
Does your garden need a little
help or a complete makeover? Contact HLG today!
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Around Town
Westonka Horticulture Day
Jump start your spring by participating in the Fifth
annual Westonka Horticulture Day at Mound Westonka High School on Saturday,
March 27th from 8AM-4PM. There will be a variety of keynote speakers, vendor booths and workshops. Heidi will giving two presentations on Curb Appeal, one starts at 10:30AM and the other at 2PM.
Horticulture Therapy at the Melrose Institute
This season Heidi will be working with The Minnesota
Landscape Arboretum and Jean Larson. Jean has been the Program Manager for the Arboretum's Therapeutic
Horticulture and Recreation Services for the last 18 years and is Faculty of the University of Minnesota Center for Spirituality and Healing.
Heidi and Jean will bring outdoor horticultural healing to
the clients of the Melrose Institute. Let life healing begin anew this
spring.
Plymouth Creek Garden Club
Friday, April 9
Plymouth Yard & Garden Expo
Friday, April 9, through Saturday, April 10
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Heidi on KARE11
Watch Heidi live on Kare11.com or on Channel 11 at 4:00 PM on Monday, March 22. Heidi will be showing us how to freshen up our front step for spring.
To see past segments visit our website under Happenings.
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More in Vegetable & Kitchen Gardens from HLG
The snow is melting...soon we promise! The beginning of our 31st season
is upon us and we can't wait to exceed your every dream! We are the joy bringers, the beauty makers
and we are here to serve YOU! By popular
demand, we are expanding our Vegetable/Kitchen Gardens repertoire.
Call Elizabeth at 612.366.4137 to get more
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March Gardening Tips
 First Signs of Spring
The snow is finally melting away and we are preparing
to start a new season. You may start seeing spring blooms popping up
through the snow as the ones pictured here, Galanthus (Snowdrops).
Watch & Learn More
Watch
Heidi Heiland from Heidi's Lifestyle
Gardens to hear what you could
be doing now in your garden to get some fresh air during this winter
white. Check out more current gardening
info on her website HeidisLifestyleGardens.com
Pruning & Problem Prevention
Most shrubs are covered with snow, but many trees benefit
from pruning at this time of year. These
include Apple, Ash, Aspen, Birch, Cotoneaster,
Crabapple, Elm, Linden, Maple, Mountain Ash,
Oak, Russian Olive, Poplar, Willow.
While a few shrubs benefit from shearing to the ground i.e.,
Spirea japonica, pruning should always be renewal pruning versus hack
whack. Check out the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Assoc website to learn more.
Assess
your Winter Landscape
This is a great time of year to make your plans for shrub installation and planting to keep wildlife fed.
The presence of fruiting and nut-bearing trees and shrubs
adds a natural dimension to a winter complex. A food/cover complex is necessary
to maintain habitats for animals. Nuts
produced by oaks, walnut and hazels provide important winter food sources for
deer, wild turkeys and squirrels. Fruits that persist on the tree (e.g., hawthorne, crabapple, buffalo
berry, highbush cranberry, red cedar) throughout the winter can also provide
very important food sources.
These shrubs and trees provide good cover or shelterbelts:
evergreens (especially cedar, pine and spruce), willows, dogwoods, cottonwood,
silver maple, green ash, hackberry, black walnut, red cedar, oaks, hazels,
dogwoods, plum, chokecherry, hawthorne
and viburnums are appropriate. Learn more.
Order Your Specialty Seeds Now
Start some seed indoors now. Stagger plantings to extend
the season. A great source for those specialty seeds is Seed Savers of Decorah, Iowa.
You can plant: Dill, Leeks, Lettuce, Onions, Parsley, Shallots, Spinach,
Turnip greens in Mid/Late April when soil temp is about 40
degrees.
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Smoked Salmon & Leek Frittata
and Grand Marnier Strawberries with Kiwi
The perfect Easter menu straight from the Lunds and Byerly's Real Food,
Spring 2006 issue.
>Read and Print Full Recipe on Our Website
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