Category: The Art of Landscaping

15 Apr 2013
April 15, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

New Plants worth Talking about….and then Planting….

Landscape gardening is a visual art form.....and so is the magician's magic. Beethoven's masterpieces are aural art forms. We want to exert feelings to the eye as Beethoven causes for the ear.....after all ...beauty is better than the ugly, but remember, if everything is equally beautiful, it is logically equally ugly. The abcs of creating a beautiful Landscape garden is the major question in three parts: What is to be planted Where, and Why should...

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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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21 Mar 2013
March 21, 2013 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin perennials, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

When to Cut Back “Used” Perennial Foliage to Embellish the Winter Landscape

Preparing for your ideal winter landscpe garden is begun in late fall before the first snowfall. This is particularly true of your landscape garden is more the feature of your grounds than lawn. Lawn is normally flat grounds. Although it certainly supplies negative space in winter as in summer, when it occupies large sweeps of grounds, lawn doesn't bear captivating shadows in winter because it IS flat. My 2/3rds of an acre of grounds, nearly...

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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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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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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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01 Nov 2012
November 1, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping

A Word or Two about Ginkgo biloba

I have a 70 foot Ginkgo biloba at the east border of my landscape garden. The following diary of events is visually, one of the most spectaclar events of the garden's landscape calendar. The normal Ginkgo biloba growing in a happy location is a big, big tree. A generation or two ago here in the Twin Cities there was one 25 foot Gb of note growing at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis proper. It was considered...

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