Some things heard and/or seen are simply more beautiful than others…..in the eyes and ears of the normal, that is…..Psychotics live on a different planet ‘normally’.   Beethoven’s adagios make the recordings of noise at your local super market sound like dead skunks stink.

No one listens to anything Beethoven anymore.    What is celebrated as music today  is  noise to the ear as the fragrance a well used summer  out house is to the human nostrils.   What, then, can be said about the visual arts?

Beauty used to be cherished in civilized societies…..but then again, some societies were quite civilized.

In my lifetime, before and even after the second world war, the American adult female dressed attractively whenever entering the public, whether shopping, visiting, or going to church…..usually anywhere,  everywhere,   when ‘in public’.

Nearly every home  ‘yard’ had a garden…..flowers for their color, and vegetables for their flavor.   Kholrabis were refreshing;  tomatoes flavorful.

Today greater and greater numbers of Americans have never planted a flower or  vegetable seed.   Their children, if there are any,  guess tomatoes are made at the super market.

With the disappearance of things beautiful to the eye and ear and therefore to the mind, what happens to the human soul in a world without loveliness?

Some trees, shrubs, flowers are more beautiful than others……Some normally beautiful oaks are ugly;  some Box Elders are spectacular.   In today’s limited American visual world no one seems to be aware of any difference.  Who knows one tree from another?  Who even knows what a conifer means?….much less what one  might look like or know that some creep, others are brilliant yellow, some soft to the touch, others with great form.

Some folks are too busy to go outdoors…..They go to work from kitchen to garage directly driving    their  auto  to some  business garage or tarred lot, never engaging verdant beauty, never reviewing  sun and shadow, that ‘ touch’ of sweet fragrance, the flutter and color of something beautiful they have cared for since their first  appearance on the property.

Have you ever inhaled the fragrance of a Juddii Viburnum?    You could own one!  It blooms for only a week at best, but how uplifting it is to discover,  never forgetting  it’s glory especially late in our  winters when Spring is again around he corner !

Where would you plant your Juddii?    North, south, east, or west, shade or sun, sand or clay?   What will inspire you once the bloom passes?….an azalea?  ninebark?  weigela?  a Chamaecyparis?

Has your blue spruce been dying for the past twenty five years?     Tired  pulling box elder,  buckthorn, and mulberry seedlings from your thinning lawn?

Are you  aware  how beautiful your home grounds could truly  be, especially if your goal is  to achieve beauty to inspire you and those around you?     Where would you begin?     Not all plants are equally beautiful…..Not all plants are beautiful one beside  another.

When is the last time you have visited  a beautiful, truly beautiful landscape garden, private or public?

Give us a call at Masterpiece….952-933-5777  for a look or two.   In the meantime….when you do recognize a winsome  landscape setting, try to verbalize what makes it so!!