Category: Residential Projects

20 Sep 2016
September 20, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden maintenance, Residential Projects, The Art of Landscaping, Uncategorized

How Beautiful is the Drive to Your Garage?

BEAUTY AND YOUR GARAGE So, you're driving home from work.   Traffic is miserable.  Every day traffic seems to become more consuming of  the world in which  you  live.   Home.....to home,  paradise at last? What would paradise be....a bath?....a nap?.....playing with ones kids?.....supper?......a beautiful family  living in a beautiful setting,  all of these pleasures at their proper time? We at Masterpiece Landscaping are in the beautiful-setting business for homes and businesses.   The following...

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28 Aug 2016
August 28, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden maintenance, garden seasons, Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Why Do Metropolitcan Politicians, Bureaucrats Make Community Streets So Ugly?

My parents bought the house in which  I was raised in 1936 in St. Paul, Minnesota.  It was newly built on a "vacant"  lot of  the more prairie edges  of  the city south of Randolph, west of Fairview down to the Mississippi River itself.  "Civilized" American urban areas were developed post Civil War with the arrival  of European immigrants for the next forty years or so.   Scandinavians, Germans, and Czech went rural.  Slavs, Italians went Iron...

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06 Feb 2016
February 6, 2016 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, garden seasons, Pruning, Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, winter landscape maintenance, winter landscapes

Landscape Garden Thoughts Best to Consider in our Northland February and Early March

Spring is not,  by calendar,  that far away from today's February  if you are a devoted landscape gardener.....in particular one who is devoted to express this love  as it classically is supposed to be......from one's soul.   Throughout the history of mankind, there are two 'far superior' spiritually-driven  artistic forms  of human  expression above all others....."Paradise from beautiful music....and paradise from beautiful Earth. Religiously....."One is closest to God..in the Garden," so truthfully discovered  by and...

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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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22 Mar 2013
March 22, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, Residential Projects, The Art of Landscaping

Among the Best People in the World are Those Who Garden Their Grounds

If there are 1,243,772 pieces of knowledge necessary to command ones personal computer, I know about 17 and a half. I spent years fighting the idea of placing my face in front of an invention with a screen that was even more vacuous than what usually appears on television. Eventually, I discovered that I was wrong.....but I was too late along in life for me to recover from lost time gathering computer expertise. Nevertheless, the...

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16 Nov 2012
November 16, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, Residential Projects, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Pruning……”Tuning” to Improve Harmony in the Landscape Garden

The Art of Landscape Garden is, of course, a Visual art form. So is 'Magic!' These are similar expressions, both being visual 'trickery'......The 'artists' want to control what the eye is to see, or what the brain thinks the eye preceives. In the ideal the art of landscape gardening should be to the eye, what Beethoven's compositions are to the ear. To the vast majoirty of home owners the grounds around the home they own...

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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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16 Jun 2012
June 16, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Whatever Happened to Beauty in our American Lives?

A people's culture is imprisoned by the habits of the day.   It is designed by religion, politics, and education or the lack of it whereever people collect and settle. We live in an America that has been reduced to the indoors.   Perhaps the majority of its population now believe that the tomato is manufactured at the local super market or factory. We live in an America whose indoor college graduates in the social sciences believe that...

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21 May 2012
May 21, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Ground Covers, mediums in OUR artform, perennials, Pruning, Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Developing a Landscape Garden….

That age old saying, "One is closest to God in the garden" does not refer to a vegetable garden or flower bed.....or a home orchard.   It refers to a landscape garden. What is a landscape garden, then?.......to be basic, it is a piece of land that is landscaped.    It is a piece of land to be entered as one enters a cathedral or a cemetery park, classically to  inspire the visitor  by the most revered...

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