Category: boulders and stone

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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07 Jan 2015
January 7, 2015 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, battling the Minnesota climate, boulders and stone, perennials, Pruning, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

The Cold and Empty Minnesota Winter Landscape

The Landscape Garden of classic western and oriental culture is supposed to be an art form. "One is closest to God in the Garden"......Paradise of nearly all known human cultures has been described, imagined as a "Garden". Yet, at today's universities, in those which bother to include something oriented to landscaping of any kind, preach and enforce politics. Botany has become an unknown science to university undergraduate and graduate students except for perhaps at institutions...

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20 May 2013
May 20, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin boulders and stone, The Art of Landscaping

Thank you, Readers, for you Comments about our Comments about Boulders in the Landscape Garden

It's coming on four years since we at Masterpiece published the article on boulders in the Minnesota landscape garden which has turned out to be our most popular. Thank you for you comments. They still are collecting. However, we wrote then about boulders in the garden toward the end of the season, September 8, 2009, to be exact. I offer the reprint below in hopes it might still be useful reading for those contemplating there...

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22 Aug 2012
August 22, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, boulders and stone, Residential Projects, The Art of Landscaping

Just a Note about Masterpiece Clients

I believe I write for all of us at Masterpiece that this landscape season we have had a wonderul group of new clients to add to our company's family of beautiful grounds. At a group of over 75 clients who gathered at our home grounds last Thursday I asked our clients how many were offered a plan by Masterpiece as we began our landscape projects at their homes. I knew the answer, of course. I...

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14 Apr 2010
April 14, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin boulders and stone, Bulbs, garden seasons

What’s That In Bloom?

Well, what is that in bloom around the Twin Cities this year......April 9-20 depending on location of specimens?   Among the trees there are the magnolias, pink being Leonard Messel and the white, the Merrill Magnolia.  Both are pleasantly fragrant. The bright yellow flowering shrubs are the forsythias, probably Meadowlark or Northern Sun.  They have been in bloom in most locations for about a week already.  In older plantings one might see Nankin Cherry, a large...

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08 Sep 2009
September 8, 2009 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin boulders and stone, mediums in OUR artform

Boulders in the Minnesota Landscape Garden

Here in Minnesota boulders happen.  They were carved out from bedrock by glaciers and then dumped willy-nilly as the glaciers receded.  For decades farmers gathered the gatherable to get them out of the way of plowed fields.  Some still do.  Now, they  sell them. Some boulders are more beautiful than others.  Some are larger, others more square than oblong.  Some are granite, others limestone. Things "boulderlike" have become very popular in landscapes.  In the old iron...

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