Redbuds and Spring, 2017 in Twin City Land
Nearly no one gardens anymore……whether the vegetable or the flower one…..even in Minnesota. Seventy years ago, even during World War II and its previous Depression years, most city folk did manage to...
View ArticleSpring is an A Plus for the Home Landscape This Year
NOT ALL SPRINGS ARE EQUAL There is no doubt from my life’s experience especially in the landscape garden arts that winters were colder, more brutal, and longer during my outdoor life as a child...
View ArticleTwin City Spring…2017 in Our Northland
It’s been very dry this Spring of our Minnesota northland. It also has been warmer than usual, thank God! Yes, Winter in Gopherland….which should be called Rabbitland, was colder and longer when...
View ArticleToday’s “Garden” Conditions AD 2017 and the Landscaped Garden
Most folks who own ‘grounds’ are not landscape garden gardeners. Especially these days of cultures of different drives and habits. Beauty has disappeared from today’s American cultural experience and...
View ArticleThe Beauty of the Fragrance of Human Manure In the Landscape Garden
Winter is rarely a kind season for most of our landscape gardens and their gardeners here in Minnesota. Winds, killer evening temperatures, crushing snow layers, sunburns on bark, deer, dogs,...
View Article2016….The Most Beautiful Autumn of My Conscious Life
About six weeks ago I had planned in mind, but not on paper or computer, what a landscape garden expert…me….should share to you, the vast landscape garden unaware of the great outdoors around you...
View ArticleWithout Decay, There Is No Life…Especially in the Landscaped Garden
Dear Minnesota Homeowner….It’s late October in the Twin Cities. What are you planning to do with all of those falling leaves now swirling around your grounds? Most likely you’ll do what you’ve done...
View ArticleRedbuds and Spring, 2017 in Twin City Land
Nearly no one gardens anymore……whether the vegetable or the flower one…..even in Minnesota. Seventy years ago, even during World War II and its previous Depression years, most city folk did manage to...
View ArticleSpring is an A Plus for the Home Landscape This Year
NOT ALL SPRINGS ARE EQUAL There is no doubt from my life’s experience especially in the landscape garden arts that winters were colder, more brutal, and longer during my outdoor life as a child...
View ArticleTwin City Spring…2017 in Our Northland
It’s been very dry this Spring of our Minnesota northland. It also has been warmer than usual, thank God! Yes, Winter in Gopherland….which should be called Rabbitland, was colder and longer when...
View ArticleToday’s “Garden” Conditions AD 2017 and the Landscaped Garden
Most folks who own ‘grounds’ are not landscape garden gardeners. Especially these days of cultures of different drives and habits. Beauty has disappeared from today’s American cultural experience and...
View ArticleMy first “employment” in The Garden
I am Glenn Ray, the old timer of Masterpiece Landscaping, Ltd. It was 75 years ago this very May, I began my first venture in ‘managing’ a gardened piece of land. It was the Spring following Pearl...
View ArticleThe Rabbit Problem
I have made myself wander through our gardened grounds here in Minnetonka where I have lived since January 1, 1974. Walking through and cleaning up the grounds isn’t as easy as it used to be. I had...
View ArticleThe Beauty of the Fragrance of Human Manure In the Landscape Garden
Winter is rarely a kind season for most of our landscape gardens and their gardeners here in Minnesota. Winds, killer evening temperatures, crushing snow layers, sunburns on bark, deer, dogs,...
View Article2016….The Most Beautiful Autumn of My Conscious Life
About six weeks ago I had planned in mind, but not on paper or computer, what a landscape garden expert…me….should share to you, the vast landscape garden unaware of the great outdoors around you...
View ArticleThe Wisp of Winter without an Attracting Setting is Often Very Gray……and...
Temperature doesn’t measure the arrival of Winter in Minnesota. Our landscapes usually do. If one bothers to look, Winter in Minnesota is equal to Spring and Fall in the quality of its beauty...
View ArticleWithout Decay, There Is No Life…Especially in the Landscaped Garden
Dear Minnesota Homeowner….It’s late October in the Twin Cities. What are you planning to do with all of those falling leaves now swirling around your grounds? Most likely you’ll do what you’ve done...
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