It's been very dry this Spring of our Minnesota northland. It also has been warmer than usual, thank God! Yes, Winter in Gopherland....which should be called Rabbitland, was colder and longer when I was four years old back in 1938, the first year I discovered "garden". Minnesotans, at least we urban ones, had tons of close friends and relatives who had to be visited including many owning a family farm. I loved visiting...
Read More >>Most folks who own 'grounds' are not landscape garden gardeners. Especially these days of cultures of different drives and habits. Beauty has disappeared from today's American cultural experience and has been absent for more than two generations. Yes, this is a matter of opinion, but most of you readers and "non-readers" aren't old enough to remember the late 1930s through the 1950s when Americans of the Great Depression became dedicated to win a World...
Read More >>I am Glenn Ray, the old timer of Masterpiece Landscaping, Ltd. It was 75 years ago this very May, I began my first venture in ‘managing’ a gardened piece of land. It was the Spring following Pearl Harbor. Our America was at World War. I lived in a very modest, but newer part of St. Paul, Minnesota at that time, a neighborhood where there were a number of empty lots, all sized at...
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