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01 Aug 2015
August 1, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

But, Homeowners Know Nothing about the ART of Landscape Gardening

........and unfortunately neither do most commercial  landscapers and professors at Departments of Horticulture at state universities. Landscape gardening in the  present American world is considered among the lowest of lows among common human occupations.   Even school janitors at all levels of American labor are  more highly respected. Anyone can put a plant in the ground or mow lawns goes the  talk  in today's   American cultural jungle.......and  what is observed in most neighborhoods in...

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22 Jul 2015
July 22, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, battling the Minnesota climate, boulders and stone, Bulbs, garden maintenance, garden seasons, perennials, Pruning, random fun, Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

When Should the Ideal Landscape Garden be at its Best?

When, at what season, does, should,  your landscape garden radiate its most inspiring  beauty? The answer is simple......Whenever you enter your Garden of Eden. I have lived at my grounds for over 40 years, long enough to be able to do,  genetically, mentally, physically, and culturally, what I was driven to do, planting and maintaining a beautiful  landscape garden  in some form or another. I have been very, very fortunate in life, and have many...

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10 Jun 2015
June 10, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, The Art of Landscaping, Uncategorized

Spring, 2015 and the Landscaped Garden

From early May much of my life over  the past twenty years I have spent most of every day in someone's or my own gardened grounds. I cannot remember a May so pleasant, so cooperating a climate for gardener and garden member alike. Cool, not cold, moist, but not wet,  and above all no violent winds or down pours. This past Sunday was June 8, 2015.  I noticed my first mosquito bite of the landscape...

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07 May 2015
May 7, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin perennials, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

The Quality of the Spring Landscape Gardens of our Twin Cities

Not all Springs are equal. Almost two decades ago a measured thirteen inches of snow fell upon our population center this past week. Although I am a devoted fan of continued global warming, hoping for horticultural zone 5 to become our Twin City standard,  I'll take this present Spring's mood any day of a decade.   We are a bit short of  regular spring waterings, but the temperatures have been quite modest, cool, not cold,...

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28 Apr 2015
April 28, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, shrubs and trees, winter landscapes

NOT ALL TWIN CITY SPRINGS ARE EQUAL

The Spring  lacing of deciduous tree foliage is about to begin in a day or two here in our Twin City landscape gardening area.  It's the time when our  major evergreen conifers no longer overwhelm our  winter's six month  landscape dominating the deciduous ghosts of Winter.  My 60 foot Red Maple is already  overwhelmed with young leaves and countless bloom clusters causing the first sign of casting  its shade.   A taller cottonwood, one-third of...

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17 Apr 2015
April 17, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, The Art of Landscaping

The Spring Gardened Grounds……Radiant Already (If you planned ahead)

Chionodoxa, Siberian Squill, Crocus, Puschkinia, Eranthis, the early tulips,  even certain Narcissus are all  bulbs in bloom as of this date in my grounds.  Most of the Snowdrops have already passed their time.  These  Dutch bulbs, as they are called, are sold by the bulb in September and October when they are planted for the coming season bloom.  Hyacinths, Ornithagalum  and most of the taller tulips and Narcissus  usually  arrive in bloom  two weeks or...

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08 Apr 2015
April 8, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Too Much Lawn on your HOME GROUNDS?

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...

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06 Apr 2015
April 6, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

The Landscape Garden as an Art Form in our Northland

Fewer and fewer Americans engage in 'monkeying around ones grounds' these days. Fewer and fewer Americans can identify five plants growing on their property or grounds near by. Fewer and fewer people bother tending to 'gardens'. More and ever more Americans live all of their lives just a few feet above asphalt. Fewer and fewer Americans have children.....We now import them for political as well as economic reasons. Botany is no longer taught at school....at...

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18 Mar 2015
March 18, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, The Art of Landscaping

Another Masterpiece in St. Paul, Mn… …….

Today we live in an ugly moment in our human experience in which beauty of artform has disappeared. There are many causes for this, political, anti-religious, lack of education, learning, training, and practice. One does not matriculate into American universities these days to discover anything about beauty much less to learn how to achieve creating that which might be uplifting to the SOUL. "The blind cannot lead the blind", or "You can't milk a turnip",...

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