The Garden Question

Heidi Heiland has been diligently leading and artfully expanding her landscape gardening company, Heidi’s Lifestyle Gardens as the CEO. That’s Chief Experience Officer since 1979. 

With the help of her expert team, they create award winning ecoscapes and nourishing encounters with nature for their customers.

 Her team brings holistic consultation, design, installation and site management to every project.

They are achieving innovative landscape designs and earth connected garden management by applying water wise approaches and slow food sustainability practices. 

After graduating from the Constance Spry Flower School in England,

Heidi continued her education by becoming a Certified Professional through the Minnesota

Nursery & Landscape Association (MNLA). She grew in the organization and eventually served as President.

Heidi holds a certificate in Horticultural Therapy through Colorado State University, has her PDC for Permaculture Design, and is a Professional Master Gardener. 

In the spring of 2016, the company grew by acquiring a retail garden centre and growing nursery on a 5-acre campus in the western suburbs of the Twin Cities. This is the home and immersive experience of Heidi’s growhaus.

Heidi’s home gardens have received awards from the Perennial Plant Association and recognition from the Garden Club of America.

Her outdoor spaces and philosophy have been highlighted in many magazines including Better Homes & Gardens, Horticulture, and Northern Green.

For a decade, Heidi presented monthly segments on the local MN NBC affiliate, KARE 11’s EarthKare series.

She was recently inducted into the Minnesota Nursery & Landscape Association (MNLA) Hall of Fame for making a difference in the green industry.

Heidi is happily married, has 3 adult kids, 3 grandkids, a golden retriever dog

named Dandelion and a rescued cat named Clover.

You will be happy that you listen to this episode before you plant your first plant. It begins with setting garden goals. 

Jeff Rugg is an educator at heart.

For over 33 years he has written the weekly nationally syndicated newspaper column the Greener View.

He taught the University of Illinois Master Gardener and Master Naturalist programs.

He now teaches via the internet through his YouTube channel Greener View with over 300 videos with more coming.

Many of the videos match the playlists of the chapters in his Greener View Gardening book.

The book is available at greenerview.com. There is a $30 discount on the softcover edition when using the promo code “podcast”.

In this episode we talk about adapting to various gardening challenges. We explore making tough decisions in gardening through the later seasons of life. Also, having the best attitudes toward tough decisions.

Mobility restrictions began taking a toll on 84-year-old Duane Pancoast. His gardening abilities were changing but not his knowledge.

He began sharing his and other senior gardeners’ experiences in his blog: The Geriatric Gardener in February, 2017.

After posting bi monthly Adaptive Gardening stories Duane decided to compile the best of his post into a self-published book: The Geriactic Gardener.

Duane feels having the gardening information at your fingertips is a benefit for every senior gardener.

Duane continues to work in the family marketing communications business, which he started in 1985. The firm serves tree, landscape and lawn care businesses.

Carol Pasternak lives by the motto “It’s Gotta Be Fun”. That is what she brings to this episode.

Have you ever thought about having a caterpillar as a pet? You will want to after listening to her.

Egg hunts are not just from the Easter Bunny. Carol talks about her thrill and experiences searching for the eggs laid by butterflies and tracking down the caterpillar.

You’ll find out how exciting it is to watch a caterpillar transformed into a chrysalis then into a butterfly.

Also, what you can do to help overcome the challenges facing the Monarch Butterfly. What is good for the Monarch is good for nature and us.

Carol Pasternak is an author, teacher, photographer and sought after speaker who has been raising monarch butterflies with her families for 40 years.

In her free time, she can be found in ditches, meadows and forests, scouring every crevice for signs of wildlife.

Her book How to Raise Monarch Butterflies: A Step-by-Step Guide for Kids, has sold 60,000 copies and received international acclaim.

Her latest book, 5 Butterflies inspires young people to pause their devices to revel in the natural world outside their door.

To invite her to speak to your group, write to [email protected]

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 In this fresh episode we are talking with Michael Perry also known as Mr. Plant Geek a multihyphenate in the plant world. You know he is adept at many roles in horticulture.

Michael is a TV presenter, speaker, hortpreneur and author of Hortus Curious, a visual menagerie of the weirdest and wackiest plant species.

Michael got his start in new product development at Thompson & Morgan before quickly working his way up to becoming an authoritative voice knowledgeable in all areas of horticulture.

Having presented guest slots on ITV’s This Morning and Channel 4’s Steph’s Packed Lunch.

He regularly speaking at RHS Flower Shows and industry exhibitions across the globe.

Michael’s focus is on the fun side of gardening, with an emphasis on new plants and trends.

He encourages and nurtures the new generation of gardeners.

Have you ever wondered about your neighbor’s tree branch hanging over your house? Or thought who really owns that tree on my property line. Is ignoring the questionable tree in my backyard a good idea?

Well in this episode we talk with an ISA Certified Arborist and a lawyer to find out where the law and your urban trees intersect.  

Lea Clark has worked as a paralegal, a criminal defense lawyer, and a college professor.

After earning a Master’s in Forestry from University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources she serves with the Georgia Forestry Commission as the Community Forester for Northeast Georgia. She is responsible for 40 counties.

As a ISA Certified Arborist and TRAQ qualified Her focus is on providing support for cities, counties, and tree advocacy groups to improve the urban tree canopy.

Remember this presentation is informational only and is not legal advice.

Ask the Arborist

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Dean Norton feel in love with the Mount Vernon Estate Gardens 53 years ago and never left.

After receiving a degree in horticulture from Clemson University he began his horticultural career as the estate’s boxwood gardener. 

The historical gardens of the first president of The United States George Washington became his responsibility in 1980.  His promotion to horticulturist allowed him to applying the latest plant science and horticulture management techniques for historical gardens.   

Dean has devoted considerable time researching 18th century gardens and gardening practices. 

He has received awards for conservation from the DAR and the Garden Club of America as well as the Garden Club of America’s Elizabeth Craig Weaver Proctor National Medal. 

He is an honorary member of the Garden Club of Virginia and the Garden Club of Providence.

He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Washington College,

serves on several historic property boards and,

lectures nationally and internationally. 

This is an encore presentation and remix of episode 064. 

It’s been over 200 years since he was born.

People still absorb his parks and public gardens in more than 5,000 communities across the North American continent.  

The goal is to “give the common man in this New World the same opportunity to experience creation as any king in his private preserve from the Old World.”

Frederick Law Olmsted is prevalently pronounced the father of American landscape architecture.

This is episode 124 Sculpting Nature: The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted with Kirk R. Brown an encore presentation and remix of episode 063

Kirk is a member of the International Garden Communicator’s Hall of Fame. He is a Green Achiever being recognized with many industry awards.

He represented Joanne Kostecky Garden Design as a leader in the design/build industry.

At America’s Oldest Garden in Charleston SC, he worked as National Outreach Coordinator.  

He is a past president of www.GardenComm.com.

In the US and Canada, he has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, guest lectures, teaching symposia, and certified instruction over the past quarter century.

He is also known to interpret historic horticulturists and international dignitaries: John Bartram, Frederick Law Olmsted.

With it all, he still finds time to cultivate his own private display garden. 

Have you got a shady location where nothing else will grow? Are you tired of mowing grass? Do you have problem  with soil erosion? How about a desire to avoid chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides?

In this episode Annie Martin, moss landscape designer and Timber Press author of The Magical World of Moss Gardening, talks about how Native mosses can be an excellent horticultural alternative.

Annie (aka Mossin’ Annie) is the owner of Mountain Moss in Pisgah Forest, NC,

She provides valuable insights on how to transform your outdoor living space into a serene retreat and eco-friendly landscape with verdant mosses.

Her how-to tips will help you get started on your own appealing year-round green moss gardening projects.

An encore presentation and remix of episode 065

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh9S1IDfXzE

Youtube: Mossin’ Annie

Facebook group: Growing Green with Moss