Minneapolis Home + Garden Show Exhibitor Spotlight: Hedberg Landscape and Masonry Supplies

We're thrilled to have Hedberg Landscape and Masonry Supplies joining us at the 2016 Minneapolis Home + Garden Show. With over 25 years in business, this innovative company was built on service, and remains focused on their valued customers. 

Hedberg Landscape and Masonry Supplies is Minnesota's largest wholesale and retail supplier of landscape hardgoods, masonry products, water garden supplies, and custom stone fabrication. They're committed to helping their customers be more successful through offering high levels of customer service, experience, professional grade products, and passion. 

Make sure to visit the Hedbeg Landscape and Masonry Supplies team in Booth 1225 while you're at the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show! Can't wait to see their exciting new products? Read on to catch a sneak peek at what they'll be bringing to the show, and learn what design trends they're anticipating for 2016!

Will you have any featured products this season?

"Hedberg is beginning 2016 by featuring the Tandem Wall retaining wall system from Belgard. Homeowners can install patterned walls with the appearance of chiseled stone. It allows for straight or curved walls as well as free-standing walls.

We’re also featuring a new product line from Rochester Concrete Products, the Vintage 6 retaining wall system. Vintage 6 is a three-piece tumbled wall system that builds straight or radius walls and seat walls without requiring cutting."

What can visitors expect to see from your company at the 2016 Minneapolis Home + Garden Show?

"Our exhibit is a mock-up of a house’s front yard and back yard. It includes: a paved driveway, patio, back yard, water feature, planter/seat wall, and additional features. We encourage attendees to stop by and relax. We’re also going to invite attendees to register for our 2016 School of Rock DIY seminars. By coming to our booth, they can see the full schedule for all three Hedberg locations and sign up for seminars at any one of them."

What home and decor trends are you anticipating for 2016?

"Current design trends may have a bit to do with sustainable design principles. Clay brick is seeing a resurgence – for both home exteriors and for pavers. Some projects are even specifying reclaimed brick, and we have actual handmold brick from Glen Gery. As people find more and better sources for reclaimed wood, they’re using it particularly for accent walls.

In back yards, bubbling rock fountains and pondless waterfalls are replacing or complementing ponds and regular pools because they’re fun to watch and easy to maintain. We predict more interest in rustic gabions for privacy walls and garden art. The gabion is an ancient landscaping device.

People are also discovering that prices have decreased for some natural stone to the point where they are nearly equivalent with those of manufactured stone, so they’re using thin veneer natural stone for exteriors and interiors." 

What inspires your products?

"We’re best known for natural stone, concrete pavers and walls, masonry and water gardening. Our products are natural, timeless, resilient, and fundamental. The finishes and features we offer support many types of decor, from traditional to modern to rustic to neoclassical. We enable this through offering a wide product selection, decades of experience with trusted suppliers and custom fabrication of stone."

What's your favorite part of the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show?

"Our favorite part of the show is acting as trusted advisers to homeowners who are seeking solutions. Our mission is to help our customers be more successful, regardless of products. We often end up introducing homeowners to licensed contractors who are also at the show. Based on the conversations we have at this show, we tune into people’s dreams for their home and help them realize those visions."

What is your creative process like? How do you work with clients?

"We engage homeowners at multiple points along the project path. Sometimes homeowners visit one of our locations and see a project or a finish that they like; other times they visit our website and see a project gallery; still other instances they are sent by a professional to Hedberg to make selections. We have arguably the best masonry showroom in the metro area, where customers can take their time with pleasant, knowledgeable staff to select products for their projects."

The Minneapolis Home + Garden Show takes over the Minneapolis Convention Center for two weekends this year! Join us February 26-28 and March 4-6! With hundreds of home and garden experts, appearances from Drew and Jonathan Scott, The Property Brothers, and tons of decor ideas and inspiration, this is a must-attend event for Minnesota homeowners!

Don't have tickets yet? Buy 'em online today and SAVE $2! Skip the box office line and receive a great discount - doesn't get much better than that!

MINNEAPOLIS CONVENTION CENTER
FEBRUARY 26-28 & MARCH 4-6

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Flashback to Classic TV with the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show FeatureGardens!

The theme of the 2013 Minneapolis Home + Garden Show's Feature Gardens is Classic TV!

Come down to the Minneapolis Convention Center to check out the following:

• “Leave it to Beaver” by Bever Landscaping – A quintessential American family landscape with evergreens, ornamental grasses, tulips, hyacinth, daffodils, cyclamen, and other fragrant flowers.

• “I Dream of Jeannie” by NRD Landscape Design + Build – Jeannie’s bold color palette comes to life with a rose pink flowering crab apple tree, a purple flowering magnolia, fuchsia rhododendrons, and colorful annuals.

• “Gilligan’s Island” by Natural Landscape Minnesota, Inc. –  A sandy beach, lush greenery, exotic tropical plants, and the sound of water. 

• “Miami Vice” by Mickman Brothers, Inc.  –  A cabana surrounded by lush plantings of palms, philodendrons, hibiscus, tropical grasses, and more.

• “Green Acres” by Landscape Design & Construction – A “place to be” for entertaining, with two custom arbors and spring plantings including river birch, specialty spruce, lilacs, and a weeping pussy willow.

• “Gunsmoke” by Stonewall, Inc. – A Western inspired garden with evergreens, aspens, grasses, masses of tulips and hyacinths, and a rustic bar with bar stools made from old saddles.

• “Fantasy Island” by OFLORA Gardens – Two very different fantasy environments—an Old West–style mountain house and a Far East–style Japanese garden— hosted by Mr. Roarke and Tattoo

• “Cheers” by Linder’s Greenhouses, Inc. –  A welcoming outdoor space where “everybody knows your name” with an array of brightly colored tropicals and other annuals.

• “Home Improvement” by Holm & Olson Landscape & Design Construction  – An outdoor living area with a pergola and plenty of room for preparing food, grilling, dining, and relaxing around the fire pit—and Wilson, the neighbor, of course.

A panel of judges determined the top three gardens LIVE at the show!

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Stroll Down Innovation Ave. with HGTV's Sasha Andreev @ MinneapolisHome + Garden Show

Are you ready to take a stroll down Innovation Avenue with Sasha Andreev?

See the newest products in home, décor, kitchen & bath, outdoor living and more at the Minneapolis Home + Garden Show, February 27 – March 3.  HGTV’s Sasha Andreev, our New Products Expert, will be on hand throughout the show to present this year’s selections during “Innovation Avenue LIVE!” at the Lifestyle Stage.

UPDATE: All innovations have already been selected

This year's Innovation Avenue is all about automation, connectivity and convenience, with a bit of style thrown in.  Indoors, products like the Samsung Wi-Fi washer/dryer pair from Warners' Stellian and the iGrill smartphone-based cooking thermometer keep you connected to your household tasks, without keeping you tied down.  Outdoors, homeowners will be able to set it and forget it with the LawnBott automatic mower and the Juice Plus self-watering aeroponic Tower Garden, not to mention the One Ap one-time lawn fertilizer.  One of my favorites, however, is more about ingenuity than technology - Stone Rolling Pins crafted from drilled granite cores left over from boulder fountains - beautiful, sustainable, and local.  But these are just a few of the solutions at this year's Innovation Avenue, so you'll have to come down and pay me a visit at the show to see them all.  

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Sasha Andreev will be appearing on the Lifestyle Stage at the Minneapolis Home & Garden Show Wednesday, February 27; Friday, March 1; Saturday, March 2; and Sunday, March 3.

For 2-for-1 tickets to the show click HERE. 

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Meet Designer Todd Davis: Exciting Addition to Minneapolis Home + Garden Show!

HGTV junkies know Todd Davis from his high-energy turn as a finalist on  "Design Star" as well as his adventurous design style from “Room Crashers,” namely, his transformations of dull bland rooms into stunning eye-popping showpieces.  Todd describes himself as "smart, hyper-creative, dynamic and very opinionated" and says he can "build anything from chicken wire and lint in a timely fashion."

"...smart, hyper-creative, dynamic and very opinionated..."

In addition to being an athlete and surfer, Todd Davis also owns a design business in San Francisco, Epic Spaces, that specializes in unique spaces--both indoor and outdoor--that reflect a Northern California sense of refined relaxation, adventure, and fun. With Todd’s direction, Epic Spaces offers leading edge design with an intelligent interactive twist.

Need project ideas for that room of your home that needs some serious crashing?

Todd knows just where to begin and how to create a plan that won’t turn your household upside down in the process.  He'll give you budget-friendly answers on how to take that unseemly living space and create a room that will soon become your favorite.

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Todd Davis will be appearing on the Lifestyle Stage at the Minneapolis  Home + Garden Show March 1 & 2, on the LIFESTYLE STAGE!


 

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