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Read More >>Chionodoxa, Siberian Squill, Crocus, Puschkinia, Eranthis, the early tulips, even certain Narcissus are all bulbs in bloom as of this date in my grounds. Most of the Snowdrops have already passed their time. These Dutch bulbs, as they are called, are sold by the bulb in September and October when they are planted for the coming season bloom. Hyacinths, Ornithagalum and most of the taller tulips and Narcissus usually arrive in bloom two weeks or...
Read More >>There can be no doubt that a well manicured lawn on one's outside home grounds is as beautiful as a stunning Oriental Carpet is on the inside of a person's domain. Yet, if left alone in a vast room of nothing else, how winsome can they really ever be if they lie alone in their space? One carpet requires great human effort to maintain its beauty, which actually includes another art form, the clipping of the...
Read More >>Fewer and fewer Americans engage in 'monkeying around ones grounds' these days. Fewer and fewer Americans can identify five plants growing on their property or grounds near by. Fewer and fewer people bother tending to 'gardens'. More and ever more Americans live all of their lives just a few feet above asphalt. Fewer and fewer Americans have children.....We now import them for political as well as economic reasons. Botany is no longer taught at school....at...
Read More >>Today we live in an ugly moment in our human experience in which beauty of artform has disappeared. There are many causes for this, political, anti-religious, lack of education, learning, training, and practice. One does not matriculate into American universities these days to discover anything about beauty much less to learn how to achieve creating that which might be uplifting to the SOUL. "The blind cannot lead the blind", or "You can't milk a turnip",...
Read More >>Most homeowners in our Minnesota communities ignore landscape gardens. Lawn and a shade tree in the middle of the front lawn, mud in the shadier depths, and the foundation plantings habits fits their needs for the duration. Probably most homeowners are poorer now than they have been for more than a decade. They endure living in their sterile environment. More females mow lawns these days than ever. The American husband population from coast to coast...
Read More >>The gardened grounds around my house over which I have domain are about a half acre in size. However, the setting is enlarged by a near acre-sized pond adjacent to half of the back area of my property, a part under which I also "own", and an extensive hill rising from the rest of the back border covered with nature's collection of this and that woody deciduous growth, both the visually exceptional and its substory...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>What is a weed? To the druggie victim "weed" is something that knocks one out of reality in order to act stupid. This is a landscape garden art website. Hemp is weedy, but lots of plants are weedy but in no way a weed. So, what is a weed? Lawn grasses are weedy. We want them to be weedy when growing in their place for the weedier they are, the thicker mat they will be....
Read More >>It snowed here last Thursday evening. We had only 8" here in my territory, two-thirds of an acre just west of Hopkins, Minnesota. By sunset yesterday, if the sun had been seen while setting in the rain, there was still some unmelted snow in the woodsier part of my grounds. Looking down from my office window as I write this note, I still see a portion of last December's snowdfall on the north side of...
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