Made in the shade
A leafy tree canopy in Heidi Heiland’s backyard hovers over the basalt fountain, which serves as a rain garden capturing water from a downspout as it flows into the pond. It’s surrounded by shade-loving varieties of hosta and Siberian iris.
Heidi Heiland thinks of her one-acre garden, on the shores of Gleason Lake just outside of Wayzata, as a living laboratory. This is where she practices the principles of a garden philosophy that involves working with, rather than against, nature, called permaculture…