There can be no doubt that a well manicured lawn on one’s outside home grounds is as beautiful as a stunning Oriental Carpet is on the inside of a person’s domain. Yet, if left alone in a vast room of nothing else, how winsome can they really ever be if they lie alone in their space?
One carpet requires great human effort to maintain its beauty, which actually includes another art form, the clipping of the lawn itself. Remember, too, this carpet has to be ‘fed’ certain nutrients, water, raked, and provided weed -prevention medicines. Nevertheless, at their best, life would be rather lonely and boring if these ‘beauties” were left alone without embellishments within their surroundings. Although eventually uncomfortable, one could sit on the indoor Oriental during our winter wonderland season, but sitting out there on the snow doesn’t seem to be very appealing.
For about a century here in Midwest America, that time in the 19th and early 20th centuries of urban settlements, the standard order of landscaping home grounds for the masses consisted of lawn everywhere, to demonstrate urban civility and order, with the exceptions of evergreen shrubs along the foundation to hide cinderblock whether cinderblock was a problem or not, a shade tree in the middle of the back yard, along with flower and vegetable gardens along the alley drive, and a shade tree in the middle of the front yard. American Elms were planted by ‘the city’ along the neighborhood”s ‘boulevards’.
These were city folks, not farmers, living here in these smaller spaces, in ‘civilized’ cleaned up urban arrangements with neighbors living next door.
Landscape gardening, however, is supposed to be an art form. The structure of the house is ideally to be located in a beautiful setting, worthy of uplifting, inspiriting the soul upon arriving home from work and during hours and days nesting there as if living in Eden.
Plants of appropriate size, if well chosen, cleverly placed, and reliably cared for, can make nearly any outdoor home grounds become as inviting, inspiring, as comforting for twelve months each year as any indoor rooms on nearly any city lot 95′ by 45′ or larger on tillable soil.
Like Beethoven’s great gifts of music, creating truly beautiful landscape gardens is merely the result of tricks of a trade well done to inspire. (Call us at 952-933-5777 if you need help.)