Month: November 2011

14 Nov 2011
November 14, 2011 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, perennials, Plant health, shrubs and trees

It has been very dry in the Garden this Fall. WATER NOW if you can.

This article should be considered a WARNING to any readers who planted or had us or anyone else plant new plant materials on your grounds since about the first of July this year in the Twin City area. We certainly had a number of rainfalls earlier in the year.   Many were of the plundering type in which the downpour was overwhelming but not terribly helpful to landscape garden plants.   Following these deluges, we have had...

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09 Nov 2011
November 9, 2011 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping

Late Autumn Color in our Northern Landscape Garden

By habit  northerners, including  amateur and professional 'horticulture' oriented people  refer to color in the autumn garden as any  color but green.   Red, pink, scarlet, orange, rust, chartreuse, gold, yellow, maroon, plum....you get the idea......green is never listed. This is mainly the  habit, monkey see, monkey do.   But there is another reason why these days greens have become so much more important in the art of landscape gardening. Over the past twenty five years the greatest numbers...

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08 Nov 2011
November 8, 2011 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, Plant health

To Clean or Not to Clean…..that is the November garden question

Because of this present November being exceptionally dry, pleasant, beautiful, and void of a killing frost until last Wednesday night here in the Twin Cities, landscape gardeners have been able to spend more time than usual amid their garden plants.  These following questions  arise for all of us and our answers may vary from year to year. To water or not to water?  Who expected the last part of October to be so dry?......and after...

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02 Nov 2011
November 2, 2011 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, perennials, Pruning, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Why is our 2011 November landscape garden so Beautiful?

If you have been 'playing'  in your landscape garden the past month you may have noticed that this October of our year, 2011, was special.....If so, why? My grounds throughout is at its most colorful best this early November   than  in all the 37 years I have lived here in the Hopkins area.  It is a landscape garden about 1/2 acre in size, laid out over the years by my passion to create beauty in...

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