Garden Center and Services

As previous owner of Home Grown Landscapes and now Perennial Paradise, I have installed many perennial garden landscaped projects over the years. I have developed a wealth of knowledge in the areas of perennials, shrubs and trees and external resources that contribute to individuals with gardening and landscape needs.

With increased fuel costs and financial challenges to one and two incomes families, I sensed a growing need of the homeowner wanting to learn how to do their own landscaping and perennial flower gardens.

I found that quality perennial resources became harder and harder to find. The distance I needed to drive to find quality perennials became a challenge. Thus, I decided that educating homeowners to create their own perennial flower gardens and home landscaping would be a good transition.

I have set aside my landscape tools and decided it was time to develop a sound perennial resource garden center in Clearwater County that allowed homeowners to be educated and save money by doing the projects themselves. Perennial Paradise offers quality perennials at a lower cost than you may find in other garden centers outside of Clearwater County Minnesota.

All perennials are planted in gallon pots to allow proper root growth and to give you the maximum size plant for your garden needs. As our inventory builds, I pay special attention to bringing in plants that are new and unique, yet hardy for this area.

A teacher myself, educating and teaching others is a passion that I love. Since Perennial Paradise came into existence, I find great joy in learning from others and educating others to create flower gardens and landscapes that they have always dreamed of.

Perennial Paradise Specializes in Perennial Gardens and Landscape Designs

Perennial Paradise offers over 200+ varieties of perennials (perennials, bi-annuals, tri-annuals, ground covers and vines) that are winter hardy zone 3 plants for this region of northern MN. Given proper care and attention by the homeowner, you can expect many years of floral beauty to enhance your yard and home. Perennial Paradise is on the cutting edge of many new ideas that have not yet unfolded. As Perennial Paradise grows and expands into new directions, our main focus is you.

We listen to your needs and desires for new plants that you are unable to find. Your floral requests give us directions on how to expand to meet your needs for the following year. We welcome phone calls of questions that you may have regarding perennial flower gardening concerns.

Save Money with Perennials!

Properly installed perennial gardens can save you thousands of dollars by reducing your need to replant every year. Perennial flowers come back year after year. Perennials often expand and grow and in time need to be split or reseed on their own. When it is time to split your perennials, this allows you a good opportunity to this share with your neighbors and exchange plants, thus networking and gaining friendships.

People often introduce themselves to me by saying, “I don’t know anything about perennials!” They often feel very insecure and insecure, yet want their yards to look beautiful. My comeback is usually, “You are the author of your own garden.” It doesn’t matter what others think. Here let me help you identify what your needs are. We walk around the garden center and identify plants and their different blooming times. The homeowner may give a dimension of the area they want to plant.

Perennial paradise is set up like a giant grid. The landscape,fabric that you walk on between the winding rows of plants have lines on it. The lines are one foot apart and assist me in understanding how big of an area you are talking about from your description of your gardens. As a service to the homeowner we pull perennials out that offer many variances of leaf texture, floral color, different heights and overall and demonstrate it by setting up the plant on the grid. From there if needed we may draw out a sketch for you to go home and recreate what we created on the grid.

Should you have additional needs once you bring your perennials home for a fee we may offer to come out and place the plants for you on your garden plot. You then can go ahead and dig in the plants and with other recommendations we can get you started in the right direction of enjoying your perennial flower gardens.

This creates a new perspective for the customer! Very soon, the homeowner takes ownership of their and begin to show great enthusiasm in the potential of having a garden that they have always dreamed about.

Perennial Paradise provides:

• One hour plan consultation free of charge. We ask that you bring yard pictures or house plans, so we can get a better idea of your gardening plans.
• If needed, we provide detailed graphic site design packages for a hourly fee contract, should you desire more extensive assistance.
• We will come out and demonstrate to you how to install retaining walls, edging, perennials, shrubs and trees on a hourly fee contract.
• We provide you with local landscapers in the area that can assist you with your project should you choose not to do the project yourself.
• We offer a list of resources within Clearwater County of where you can buy top quality materials, shrubs trees and annuals for all your gardening needs.
• We are honest. If we don’t know the answer to your question we will direct you to a source that does know.
• We offer coupons from time to time to give you good deals on your perennials for your flower gardens.
• We are here to serve you!
• Perennial Paradise desires to educate you in a fashion that you are the author of your own garden.

Environmental Design Specialist

We recently brought on board Nick Sloan who has recently graduated from NDSU who holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design and also has a Masters of Science in architecture. As this site develops you will get a first hand glimpse of some of the avi. movies that Nick has put together for you and some examples of his detailed landscape designs. Nick has worked with me under HomeGrown Landscapes for six years. He is dependable and detailed. Welcome aboard Nick! Together he and I will work with you until you are satisfied with what your desires are for a perennial landscape flower garden. This may include trees, shrubs and annuals.

We also have a number of local carpenters and paver contractors that are willing to work with us to help you achieve additional building projects to complement your landscaped gardens.

Regional Resources for Your Gardening Needs

Clearwater County is a rich resource for other businesses in the area that want to meet your tree, shrub, annual plant stock needs. Within a half a mile of Perennial Paradise, two additional businesses carry all flower and vegetable garden plants in the spring and a tree nursery for landscaping services, tree planting, trees, and shrubs.

No longer do you need to travel afar. Prices are much lower than you will find in any other garden centers around. Not only do we save you gas but we save you money as high quality plants cost less than neighboring communities and regions.

Bagley merchants are collaborating with Perennial Paradise to assist you any way they can in getting the right garden supplies, tools and materials for all of your flower garden and landscaping needs.

Perennial Paradise Garden Center is fast becoming the #1 resource hub site to help you get a good start to your landscaping and perennial flower garden needs. No more long distant drives to far away places to get only a few things!

We are here to serve you!

Check back frequently as Perennial Paradise continues to expand daily.

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We thank you for your time and hope you can come out and visit us soon or call us at (218) 766 3568.

Hour fall hours for August 2008 are:

• Saturday 7 a.m – 7 p.m.
• Sunday 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
• We will be closed Labor Day weekend.
• September hours will be announced shortly.

Feel free to call Perennial Paradise if you would like to make an appointment after hours to purchase perennial flowers or for consultation services by calling (218) 766-3568.