I just now came across this beautiful video of one of God’s beauties of life, the Delivery of a Fawn. It reminded me of one of the most inspiring sights of my life some fifteen or twenty years ago which occurred in my own home landscape garden one Spring. As you know, I am by profession, a landscape gardener. I have planted and nursed a beautiful setting on my homegrounds since I and my family moved...
Read More >>How many times a day do you enjoy walking your garden paths? Have you noticed how much more fulfilling these walks are in winter than in any other season of the year? There may be less color; the fragrances are fewer or more hidden; the sounds are clearer in the particular, but silent in the mass, more than the other six months of each year. However, in no other daytime can the forms of the uprights show...
Read More >>at least thus far fellow Northlanders..... Previous to yesterday the vast majority of my grounds was bare of snow. Where snow did exist, there was no accumulation, but only a dusting here or there in areas beyond the reach of the Sun. As most of you readers know, I am thoroughly in favor of our Twin Cities moving into Horticultural zone 5. In some grounds we are almost there, but msot of those grounds are...
Read More >>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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