I spent much of this gray day involved in my own landscape garden. I am loathe to call it work, for once I enter the space, I am too lost in its aura, too mesmerized to feel any labor. I become occupied and governed in deeds the space has captured me to do. Not all autumns are equal. In my space this October has been one of the most beautiful ever. Traditionally in the Twin City area, the...
Read More >>It is always the case that beautiful gardens must be seen most often at their very best......for the year, anyway. In Minnesota, today's garden quickly disappears into another piece of scenery never again to be seen in the form and beauty just witnessed. The Sun, the light of our landscape garden stage, thank heaven, never stops featuring Earth's exquisite beauty or squalor, for that matter. Gardens, like people, gain character with age. Our 2011 Minnesota...
Read More >>I am looking at a nursery wholesale catalog....a guide which carries a paragraph or less to inform the unknowing a bit about the nature of the plant. Information located there is made available by a number of sources. It could be from the original plant propagator, a plant salesman, or a university professor in the horticultural department. In the landscape artist's world knowing names of individual plants is seldom important, except perhaps for billing. Plants...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>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...
Read More >>The 2010 Minnesota spring is almost back to its normal time frame. In my grounds today's May 18th garden usually occurs about May 26th, so now spring is only about 8 days early. Last week's cool, cloudy and rainy weather, made the adjustment. Still, eight days of a better Spring is much appreciated. I usually use Azalea bloom as my standard for comparing Spring's timing. My grounds are designed as a landscape garden....not a staged garden...
Read More >>Welcome to the Masterpiece Landscapers' Blogsite, the conversation channel primarily for clients and friends and potential clients of Masterpiece Landscaping, Ltd. We at Masterpiece will supply timely information which hopefully will help readers improve their landscaping skills, knowledge of plants, and love for the classic art of landscape gardening. Readers will supply us with appropriate and timely questions, and hopefully will share with us some of their landscaping experiences. Together, all of us at Masterpiece believe we will help create a...
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