Month: October 2016

26 Oct 2016
October 26, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Gardening, Weeding ,

The Wisp of Winter without an Attracting Setting is Often Very Gray……and Very, Very Cold

Temperature doesn’t measure the arrival of Winter in Minnesota.   Our landscapes usually do. If one bothers to look,  Winter in Minnesota is equal to Spring and Fall in the quality of its beauty  offered by sight.   Outdoor viewing during and immediately after snowfall creates a landscape garden aura of its own…..if there is a landscape garden in site, that is. And, let us thank God, this garden “aura” doesn’t occur in summer as...

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26 Oct 2016
October 26, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

Without Decay, There Is No Life…Especially in the Landscaped Garden

Dear Minnesota  Homeowner....It's late October in the Twin Cities.   What are you planning to do with all of those falling leaves now swirling around your grounds? Most likely you'll do what you've done as long as you have lived in your Twin City house...either rake the leaves up,  or  very loudly power blow them into a pile, bag them up and have them  driven  someplace  to make them disappear. I have lived on my...

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23 Oct 2016
October 23, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

The Art of Landscape Gardening #1

Beauty as a value in our western culture began its death throes from the unspeakable horror of the industrialized slaughter of countless millions of  World War I.   It stands to reason its disappearing  accelerated into oblivion with the slaughters which followed....World War II, and the estimated 20,000,000 in the USSR murdered by Joseph Stalin and the 60,000,000 killed by Mao Tse Dung to rearrange China into  police states. Music is an aural experience to...

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