Category: garden seasons

28 May 2013
May 28, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, Bulbs, garden seasons, Ground Covers, Wonders of Ground Covers

Rain, Rain, and More Rain….but Beautiful, if Brief, Landscape Gardens

Spring arrived for a day or two several weeks ago and apparently didn't like the setting. It yielded to cold and rain, rain, and more cold.....and made the color gray exceedingly dull, the only color in town. Unless, that is, you have a bunch of healthy conifers decorating the world around your residence. Add a number of flowering shrubs and trees and you have indeed become blessed this Spring. And then, there are the ground...

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19 May 2013
May 19, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

SPRING 2013: The Most Colorful Landscape Garden in Decades and Decades

We write mostly about Minnesota...Twin City area landscape gardening issues. With this in mind, I hear countless complaints about this Spring, Spring 2013 is a lousy one. I am one of these complainers....Cold, rainy, cloudy, windy, snowy for the first six weeks, more rain, more and more rain. Here it is only 30 days until the days become shorter...and shorter....and shorter. I am extra depressed already.....but then, before the rains, the heavy ones today, Sunday,...

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15 Apr 2013
April 15, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, Bulbs, garden seasons

Snow and Cold getting rather Old….

This snow and cold business here in 2013 "Spring" Twin Cities is getting kind of OLD. Mother Nature seems to be taxing us for the magnificent, best of all Springs, which occurred just one year ago when Spring arrived on March 15 and ruled until the beginning of Summer in late June. Eranthis, Snowdrops, and Siberian squill all began bloom last week in our grounds. They are still in bloom but completely unnoticed under ten...

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22 Feb 2013
February 22, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Beauty in the Well Planned Minnesota Landscape Repeats Itself

Three to five inches of light gentle snow settled once again upon our Twin City Minnesota landscapes again last night stretching to a few moments ago. It is still cloudy. There are no shadows, no forms performing radiantly on stage showing off their grace and form, their dark and white, the purity of beauty equal to Nature's best. Gray it may be, but the purity for beauty is just as gracious, just as awesome, quieter,...

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14 Feb 2013
February 14, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Morning, February 14, 2013 Unsurpassed Beauty in the Northern Landscape Garden

Today, February 14, 2013, our Northland's Twin Cities' landscape, the good and the bad, is overwhelmed by the most beautiful ourdoors the human eye and mind can perceive. The description "breath-taking" belittles the glory of the scenery. No matter how beautiful a day can be here or anywhere on Earth, none can surpass Mother Nature's canvas this morning..... At this moment , four hours after sunrise, after a nightfall of four to five inches of...

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09 Jan 2013
January 9, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

How Beautiful and Inspiring are Your Winter Grounds?

In our part of Minnesota the Winter landscape is equal in duration to our Spring, Summer, and Fall landscapes put together. Do your own adding. With the exception of some oaks, leaf fall is over before the first of November. Leafing out in Spring invarably begins the week of May 15 here in the Twin Cities dictated by the habits of our major deciduous shade trees. This lacing of our landscape is one of the...

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08 Dec 2012
December 8, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Winter Arrived in our Twin City Northland Last Night

Winter arrived last evening here in the Twin Cities of the Northland. In a matter of an hour or two a rather dry settling of snow covered about two inches the beautiful landscape garden surrounding my house. Never is the beauty of these grounds superior! I don't look forward to winter any more, but its visual beauty when natural or artistically recreated can be breath taking. So much so, I have swept paths through these...

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15 Nov 2012
November 15, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden maintenance, garden seasons, Pruning, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Pruning, Beautfying the Landscape Garden in Late Fall

Two years ago November 13, a Saturday, my landscape grounds was buried under 32 inches of heavy, icy snow. Damage to white pines and arborvitaes accompanied the event.. I cannot remember last year's advent of winter. It was uneventful. Usually, the first snowfall is among the most beautiful, here in Vikingland. Especially if it is a dry one of about five inches of snow for a good white topping causing no tipping of pyramidal conifers....

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11 Oct 2012
October 11, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, perennials, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

The Beauty of October, “the Fall” of our Landscape Gardens

Americans are overwhelmingly indoor people these days. Their knowledge of Nature outside their windows seems to have disappeared from their minds and therefore language and action. The detachment from our outdoor world endangers who we are as a people, as a culture, and our abilities to survive catastrophe and our abilities to recognize beauty from the ugly. All of the billions of people living on our Earth could become housed within the state of Texas...

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26 Sep 2012
September 26, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, shrubs and trees

Don’t Forget to Water Valued Trees a bit Extra this Autumn

Autumn is running almost two weeks early this year. It is also likely that this Autumn will be more dull in color. Many falling leaves will have shown no color but dried up brown.....for the very reason that the summer was dried up and hot for our northern clime. The treeless line, that is the rainfall line indicating less than 15 inches of annual precipitation, runs just west of the Twin Cities at a slanting...

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