Whether one lives in the woods, in suburbia, the city with "a yard" or on the 24th floor of some structure, most of us have two eyes which help lead us on our path from birth "to dusty death" as Shakespeare described the end for some. Our eyes absorb things ugly and things of beauty. What the eye absorbs usually becomes habit forming. Our todays are not carbon copies of yesterdays personally, collectively,...
Read More >>El Nino is a Pacific Ocean current event. The powerful primary Pacific currents normally in early winter make their turn North after hitting the American continent somewhere around southern Mexico. Occasionally they begin their northward turn much farther to the South bringing greater warmth from equatorial cloud and water which has a warming effect from western United all the way to Gopherland cakked "El Nino". Winter 2016 in...
Read More >>Spring is not, by calendar, that far away from today's February if you are a devoted landscape gardener.....in particular one who is devoted to express this love as it classically is supposed to be......from one's soul. Throughout the history of mankind, there are two 'far superior' spiritually-driven artistic forms of human expression above all others....."Paradise from beautiful music....and paradise from beautiful Earth. Religiously....."One is closest to God..in the Garden," so truthfully discovered by and...
Read More >>The human genesis on the Earth of our day originally 'arrived' from a garden in our wonderful JudeoChristian religious teachings; from the jungle in the more accurate scientific vernacular. This we do know from the messages provided by genetics, geology, etc,etc. It is amazing how accurately the first chapters so artistically written in English of the King James Version of the JudeoChristian Bible fit the scientific understandings. There are many kinds of...
Read More >>I celebrate the year, 2015 in suburban Twin Cities, Minnesota, as the most comfortable, the most gentle, , the most pleasing to garden plants of all shapes and sizes, and therefore, the most beautiful of my memorable lifetime, well perhaps only seventy years of it. Further, when it was decided to rain, the wetness was somehow 'professionally' timed to arrive gently and sufficiently around every third day totally free from angry cloud bursts. ...
Read More >>This Twin City Autumn has been the kindest extension of Summer ever in my remembrance. Warmth without heat, rain without snow and wind. Leaf fall is merely one stage in the cycle of plant life here in our Northland. This is the season our Earth is being replenished with Earth's yesterday foliage in order to continue life's cycle. The health of our trees and shrubs ideally relies on water and its relationship with rot,...
Read More >>I am old enough to have lived a history which includes remembering in a broader sense personal experiences from varieties of weather and seasons over the years. On two occasions around World War II time, it snowed heavy wet stuff on my birthday of mid September, and once later while watching a September Saturday football game at old Memorial Stadium. I like winter here in Gopherland, but it is so long. I have long...
Read More >>Sun, water, soil, and nutrients are the basic essentials for healthy garden plant growth.....Once again: SUN, WATER, SOIL, NUTRIENTS for plant and YOUR happiness!!! Sun: Not all garden plants, either woody or herbaceous, prefer full sun. Others disdain deep shade. Full sun might burn sensitive plants' leaves, turning them ugly brown or pathetic yellow. Deep shade advances diseases on wet leaves which are sensitive to rot. Nearly every perennial plant,...
Read More >>There is something special about the character accompanying folks who beautify the Earth with beautiful grounds. Few of the sixty plus client visitors to our past Thursday's Masterpiece Garden Party know one another. The evening was heavy of air but fortunately, without rain. Gardens draw friendships together. We all had a common bond .....to transform our grounds. Conversations and laughter and addresses were shared. Without question the garden plant of Party talk...
Read More >>Masterpiece Landscaping cordially invite you to our annual Garden Party on Thursday August 13, 2015 5pm-8pm. 14624 Woodhill Terrace, Minnetonka, MN 55345. RSVP to chris@masterpiecelandscape.com
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