I believe I write for all of us at Masterpiece that this landscape season we have had a wonderul group of new clients to add to our company's family of beautiful grounds. At a group of over 75 clients who gathered at our home grounds last Thursday I asked our clients how many were offered a plan by Masterpiece as we began our landscape projects at their homes. I knew the answer, of course. I...
Read More >>I remember well the summer of 1988. I was working for a grounds maintenance company, some place out of Bloomington. Clients were a number of big corporations which occupied large pieces of property. I got $8 an hour, but was called 'the Professor', because I knew something about plants. The hired, including me, were hired to be laborers, were expected to be laborers, and confined to be laborers. Few holes were dug.....nearly nothing was planted....
Read More >>Mine is a landscape garden grounds. Most rooms differ one from another. Most of the structure is managed by conifers.....after all, the winter landscape in Minnesota is as long as Spring, Summer, and Autum put together.......six months if you really want to know.; Color is very important and is highly valued in my grounds. But it is only equal to texture and secondary to form, both shape and size. I control color in a number of...
Read More >>Whether in the Landscape Garden or in the standard Minnesota city and suburban Yard, the answer to the question "What is a Weed" should be the same: .....A PLANT OUT OF PLACE..... That is the answer, the whole answer, and nothing but the answer! We are familiar with landscapes covered almost entirely with lawn. Until the population began moving to the suburbs in the 1950s, the only landscape generally seen was a copy of the neighbor's.........
Read More >>"Beethovem is to the EAR what a Beautiful Landscape Garden is to the EYE. If they are to be enjoyed to their fullest, they must be allowed to enter the privacy of your thoughts and emotions to allow reflections of life and its beauty to enter your soul. One of my very favorite, indeed, perhaps my favorite mood piece to perceive aurally to blend into my visual landscape garden inspiration, is Beethoven's adagio movement to his Spring...
Read More >>We at Masterpiece invite individual gardeners or your garden group to visit our landscape garden here in Minnetonka. Call us at Masterpiece, 952-933-5777 to make your appointment for a guided tour.
Read More >>What is a Landscape Garden? "The garden has long been perceived as the highest, most perfect form of all art creations, the one closest to God and bearing the imagery of paradise itself. Indeed, the timeless quote, "One is closest to God in the garden," has been the splendid pleasure driving countless generations to transform the land into garden. No matter how pleasurable, how physically and spiritually rewarding working the vegetable garden and nurturing the...
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 >>If you have been 'playing' in your landscape garden the past month you may have noticed that this October of our year, 2011, was special.....If so, why? My grounds throughout is at its most colorful best this early November than in all the 37 years I have lived here in the Hopkins area. It is a landscape garden about 1/2 acre in size, laid out over the years by my passion to create beauty in...
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