Landscaping  is primarily an art form.  One might not recognize the truth of this statement while touring  neighborhoods looking for creative ideas to use for  home or business grounds.  There is very little of the art of landscape design to be seen.

Landscaping as generally practiced in this part of the country, and perhaps throughout our nation, is the business of covering the ground usually with lawn and a few shrubs somewhere, and in some areas these days, by city bureaucracy commanding a tree or two or three be planted, regardless of whether the grounds beg for  them.

As a matter of fact the trend toward “comfortable” living,  whether through government planning or business salesmanship these days, is to abandon the house and its grounds in favor of huge Soviet style housing complexes with, if lucky  a view or two of the city from up above, or town houses where the worries of landscaping are limited to someone else mowing the lawn or clipping the shrubs as advertised.  In both of these “communities” beauty is abandoned.  The human experience is dramatically diminished.  The look alike and think alike thrive.

I have been around “home gardeners” for over 50 years.  Longer, if I include my mother’s devotion to decorating her home grounds.  In my experience no activity in life  drives      the human male or female to extend  ones life longer and in a healthier state mentally and physically than (succumbing to)  the art of working the home grounds.

The verb essential for this observation  regarding the extension of ones life for this  relatively happier and healthier condition to occur, is:  “to succumb”.  By definition it means, “to yield to something powerful”.  Once the home owner has “succumbed” to the art of landscaping his or her home grounds, there is no going back.  That person will live a longer life well occupied.

Living longer because of ones family, usually because of grandchildren, I admit edges a bit ahead of living longer for the sake of ones garden….barely, in many cases.

We, at Masterpiece Landscaping, Ltd, encourage all homeowners interested in living a happier life a bit longer to call us at 952 933 5777 to learn how to succumb, that is, to yield to something powerful, to participate in the art of landscaping your own home grounds.    Learn what you are doing when you create something beautiful.  Learn why your mistakes are mistakes….

Classes for groups can be arranged.         glenn h ray