Dear Friends: Last Wednesday we at Masterpiece discovered that my home garden had been chosen one of the six winners in the Star-Tribune’s annual Beautiful Gardens contest.
In an article appearing in the paper’s Home and Garden section, Kim Palmer wrote: “How do your gardens grow?
Extremely well, judging from the overwhelming response to this year’s Home and Garden Beautiful Gardens contest. We received nearly 200 entries, a record number for the contest it started in 1997.
Frankly, we were blown away, not just by the sheer volume of gardens submitted, but also the beauty they represented. We saw award-worthy gardens in every style and on every scale. In the end, our team of six judges narrowed the field to the following six winners:
Glenn Ray, founder of Masterpiece Landscaping, has influenced many local gardeners, including several previous Beautiful Garden winners. His own Minnetonka landscape is a “masterpiece of color, texture, form aroma and imagination,” according to its nominator.”
Ms. Palmer listed:
Richard and Shirley Friberg, Roseville…….Dianne and Dan Latham, Edina…….Randy Ferguson, Minneapolis……Diane and Curtis Dutcher, Brooklyn Park……..and Chris Trevis, Lake Elmo as Beautiful Gardens winners as well. Each garden was skillfully described.
Congratulations to you all.
I admit that I am quite pleased and thank everyone involved for this recognition and honor. I especially thank Chris and Marion Levy, long time clients, and as with so many of you, good friends who apparently nominated the grounds, and Kim Palmer for the special paragraph she wrote, quoted above, about me and the garden.
And I thank all of you and my colleagues at Masterpiece who have added to my great good luck in life to work with such good and talented people, creating something beautiful for people interested in garden beauty to add to their lives, and maintain friendships which help make life beautiful and so well worth living.
From the bottom of my heart….Thank you, ALL!