Category: The Art of Landscaping

28 Oct 2010
October 28, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, Ground Covers, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

A Few Words About Autumn Color in the Landscape Garden

The Landscape Garden is more than what most people consider to be garden.   It is an enclosure to enter, stroll though, walking the paths up to and passed plants which might appear sculpture at one look, and framing after a few paces along the path.  Envision a private woodland with windows and openings where beautiful forms or colors can be seen and beautifullly displayed. Benches in the distance  entice  visitors to find the path to a resting...

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14 Sep 2010
September 14, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

Clients Invited to Garden Open House, September 18th at 2:00 PM

We at Masterpiece are going to have a special day this coming Saturday, September 18th starting at 2:00 PM at our home landscape garden.   And I am going to be on the schedule to share some observations about the most honored art form of them all, the gardened landscape. We are celebrating Client Appreciation Day at our Minnetonka home landscape garden, 14624 Woodhill Terrace.   Prizes and refreshments will be part of the program.  But the...

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02 Aug 2010
August 2, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

The Disappearance of Beauty and the Landscape Garden

Our company, Masterpiece Landscaping, Ltd., was invited to participate in a Garden Party last Thursday.  It was a fund raiser for the Friends of Roseville Parks held at the lovely grounds of Tom and Mona Dougherty.  Over 300 people attended.  There were many programs offered to provide entertainment and learnings to the attendees.  I and Mike Berg of our Masterpiece staff were among the speakers. I wanted to emphasize the importance of beauty as the...

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24 Jul 2010
July 24, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, garden maintenance, The Art of Landscaping

Marian and Larry Fischer of Waseca; Beautiful Garden Winners in 2009

We at Masterpiece are very proud of our friends in Waseca, Marian and Larry Fischer, Star  Tribune Beautiful Garden winners a year ago.  Their landscape garden dwarfs mine in size, spreading about 3 acres in all.   It  is exquisitely maintained and manicured.   The setting is truly an oasis in a beautiful endless "sea"  of corn.   We have been very blessed to have had the opportunity to work together with Marian and Larry to develop the grounds over...

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24 Jul 2010
July 24, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

Thank You, “Star-Tribune” For the Honor of Your Recognition

Dear Friends:  Last Wednesday we at Masterpiece discovered that my home garden had been  chosen one of the six winners in the Star-Tribune's annual Beautiful Gardens contest.    In an article appearing  in the paper's Home and Garden section, Kim Palmer wrote:  "How do your gardens grow? Extremely well, judging from the overwhelming response to this year's Home and Garden Beautiful Gardens contest.  We received nearly 200 entries, a record number for the contest it started...

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21 Jul 2010
July 21, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

Garden Party in Roseville, Thursday July 29, 2:00-7:00 PM

Friends and, we are happy to say, "clients" of Masterpiece Landscaping, Mona and Tom Dougherty,  are opening their gardened grounds for a grand garden bash for all of us who love beautiful gardened landscapes.  Flower, trees, and shrubs, and even lawn, will receive the special honors for the day.  Much of the talk and many of the talks will be about them .......to know more about the garden arts  and our  tricks of how to put these...

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11 Jul 2010
July 11, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

Guided Garden Tour Scheduled for July 15, 7:00 PM

For those of you who are especially interested in the Landscape Garden, you will learn more on this guided tour than just the names of plants.  You will discover some interesting features of the Landscape Garden which sets it aside from the Plant Display Gardens  one views everywhere. When Minnesotans think of gardens, they think of displays  of flowers and occasionally a few shrubs.  Blooms are the mainstays of these  plots.  Often such "gardens" occur in...

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01 Jul 2010
July 1, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin garden maintenance, Plant health, The Art of Landscaping

The Importance of Being Artificially Watered

We at Masterpiece Landscaping install grounds irrigation for the landscape garden.    Nearly all of the folks trained to install irrigation systems know nothing about installing  such systems in the classical landscape garden. What is the difference? Imagine a half acre of lawn.  Only lawn....nothing but lawn; no maple trees here, arborvitaes and pine there, viburnum and magnolia, anemone and heuchera, sedum and "Hot Lips" turtlehead in sight.  Only lawn, with or without dandelions.  Here installantion...

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28 Jun 2010
June 28, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin The Art of Landscaping

The Disappearance of Seeking Beauty in Modern America

Over the past century and a half  western societies have suffered from the rise of the omnipotent university.  As the university populations increase,  the individual human imagination  decreases and the art of  creating beauty disappears.  Some university art education critics claim the human mind becomes programmed. The "feelings' of the individual become institutionalized.  What one absorbs  and attempts to understand or  respond to in inspiration....become  numbed.  The quest to achieve that which is beautiful dies. Beauty has...

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20 Jun 2010
June 20, 2010 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, The Art of Landscaping

Classical Landscape Garden Open For Public View

Our home grounds at Masterpiece is a classical landscape garden.....One enters its realm to retire from the present time and world.  With every move forward into the gardened grounds there are windows to view distant arrangements  and grand paintings to admire.  One is magnificently alone among Nature in its ideal.  Not the  only  ideal, but one of an endless possibilities for the ideal.  The sunny setting provides sharp colors and bright contrasts.   The temperature falls 15...

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