For those of you who have visited our Materpiece home grounds in Minnetonka you often comment how lush everything appears to be. I do too. First, by the luck of the 'home' draw where I live, the soil nearly throughout the grounds is loamy and deep. Second, I have only a nine minute lawn mowing reponsibility here leaving 90% of the land space, minus house, garage, and driveway, 'open' country for landscape gardening. I then have...
Read More >>It is cold today....for this Spring, that is.....windy and 40 degrees F. ......a normal Spring after a normal Winter, but not for a winter without a January and February, that is this past season of little precipitation and no traditional Minnesota wind and cold. Last year we wouldn't have noticed. Checking out our landscape grounds, I noticed last Saturday, March 24, 2012, that the following are now in bloom performance: Merrill Magnolia, Leonard Messell Magnolia, Weekend Forsythia,...
Read More >>I have never been to Japan, but have spent almost a year of my life roaming around the traditional landscape gardens of England, Scotland and Wales. I moved from one paradise on to another, again and again. The United Kingdom government is interested in accruing money for the National welfare, and know full well, the art of the Landscape Garden is the Kingdom's most cherished art form.....financially, in numbers of visitors to these Edens, and historically the...
Read More >>The most beautiful winter landscape garden in my thirty eight years of living here in Minnetonka occurred this winter, 2011-2o12. In this the first winter without a January or February in the Twin Cities to my knowledge, there was little snow, no rain, and no cold. The yellows of the golden chamaecyparis, sunkist and yellow ribbon arborvitaes, the plum of the Andorra junipers, blues of the Dwarf Colorado blue spruce and even the blue pfitzers...
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