05 Jan 2012

Landscape Garden Life among the Coyote

I have coyote preying on my grounds.   The resident couple have produced a pup.   We seldom see these folks, but they are there and we have quicky pictures to prove their settlement. In the thirty eight years of my residency here in suburban Minneapolis , I have been able to create and maintain a beautiful  classic landscape garden.   We live in a climate in which winter is the major landscape season, as long as all...

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15 Jun 2010

The Landscaped Grounds of Metropolitan Minnesota

If you and I were to walk up and down the sidewalks of the city or streetsides of suburbia, it is likely we could give a pretty good listing of the personalities of the homeowning folks  who live there.  Many years ago I taught landscape classes at the University of Minnesota's Extension Service.  For the winter landscaping class, we added a bus tour to drive along many communities to tell my story about the art of...

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