PLANNING

Planning Process:

• Meetings with four landscape designers and contractors.

  • Meetings took place in yard

  • Meeting lengths ranged from 1 to 2.5 hours

• Soil test with University of Minnesota

  • No red flags

• Visits to various garden centers

  • Gertens

  • Highland Nursery

  • Bachmans

• Review of multiple books, catalogs and websites on native plants of Minnesota and created lists of possibilities

• Reviewed Habitat Assessment Guide for Pollinators in Yards, Gardens, and Parks produced by The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

  • https://xerces.org/publications/habitat-assessment-guides/habitat-assessment-guide-for-pollinators-in-yards-gardens

• Visits to other gardens

  • 2 MG Garden Gate tours

  • 3 Ollie Hennepin County Master Gardener tours

• Visit to the University of Minnesota Arboretum

• Rough plan on paper to start

• Fabian’s Select Services finalized on the ground in the yard with spray paint