Category: winter landscapes

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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30 Jun 2012
June 30, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, garden seasons, perennials, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

What is in bloom now at my Place?

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...

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21 Jun 2012
June 21, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin shrubs and trees, winter landscapes

Some Big Surprises in my Landscape Garden

  SUNKIST ARBORVITAE:   Probably the most stunning plant on my grounds is the 20 foot Sunkist Arborvitae  in my front grounds.  Its form, bright gold color, and size dominate the scene as I or anyone drives to my house located at the end of a cul-de-sac.   Although its size impresses the viewer in winter, from late February to December it is brilliant yellow of the new foliage which makes this huge form so noticed and so beautiful. Its size...

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16 Jun 2012
June 16, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Whatever Happened to Beauty in our American Lives?

A people's culture is imprisoned by the habits of the day.   It is designed by religion, politics, and education or the lack of it whereever people collect and settle. We live in an America that has been reduced to the indoors.   Perhaps the majority of its population now believe that the tomato is manufactured at the local super market or factory. We live in an America whose indoor college graduates in the social sciences believe that...

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21 May 2012
May 21, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin Ground Covers, mediums in OUR artform, perennials, Pruning, Residential Projects, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscapes

Developing a Landscape Garden….

That age old saying, "One is closest to God in the garden" does not refer to a vegetable garden or flower bed.....or a home orchard.   It refers to a landscape garden. What is a landscape garden, then?.......to be basic, it is a piece of land that is landscaped.    It is a piece of land to be entered as one enters a cathedral or a cemetery park, classically to  inspire the visitor  by the most revered...

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06 Mar 2012
March 6, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, winter landscape maintenance, winter landscapes

The Storm Came; The Storm Dumped; The Storm Conquered

The most beautiful winter landscape garden in my thirty eight years of  living here in Minnetonka occurred this winter, 2011-2o12.   In this the first winter without a January or February in the Twin Cities to my knowledge, there was little snow, no rain, and no cold.    The yellows of the golden chamaecyparis, sunkist and yellow ribbon arborvitaes, the plum of the Andorra junipers, blues of the Dwarf Colorado blue spruce and even the blue pfitzers...

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27 Feb 2012
February 27, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden maintenance, shrubs and trees, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscape maintenance, winter landscapes

A Snowstorm, the Heavy kind, Expected. Should Landscape Gardeners be Worried?

Snowfalls are great for Landscape Companies in cold climes like Minnesota who have a snowplowing business in Winter.    We,  at Masterpiece are one of them. Winter is a good time for certain kinds  of pruning, but most  gardens in these parts are in deep sleep this time of year.    Thank God for plowing driveways. I have just spent a couple hours prowling through my own gardened grounds to do some pruning and  prepare some conifers for a...

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26 Feb 2012
February 26, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, The Art of Landscaping, winter landscape maintenance, winter landscapes

When is a Weed a Weed?

When is a weed a weed.   When it is a dandelion? Well, maybe....usually yes, because dandelions makes a lovely lawn appear ugly, expecially when the seeds are produced.   Because the seeds are produced in such numbers, dandelions become a more noticeable weed. In our Masterpiece Landscaping dictionary,  a weed is defined as "a plant out of place". Our Masterpiece Landscape garden where I live doesn't have much  lawn.    If there are dandelions,  they occur occasionally...

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25 Jan 2012
January 25, 2012 0 Comments By masterpiecelandscapingadmin About Masterpiece, battling the Minnesota climate, garden seasons, winter landscapes

Garden paths through the Beautiful Winter Garden of Snow Flowers

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...

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