Autumn Brilliance Serviceberry

February 20, 2013

THE AUTUMN BRILLIANCE SERVICEBERRY is a a great tree that I want to bring to your attention.  It can be used in a variety of settings and grown as a large shrub or small tree (depending on pruning). They grow in full sun or partial shade and are native to northern Minnesota. Small white flower [...]

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2013 Builders Home Show

February 5, 2013

At this time of year we don't get to do much landscaping. It's cold, frozen, and snowing. The roads are bad today and I wouldn't want to drive my equipment around and try to get to a job site. So, lets go landscape inside! We'll be setting up for the Builders Home Show at the [...]

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Ghost Weigela

August 15, 2012

THE GHOST WEIGELA is a great shrub for your landscape if you have full sun and deer. Deer!? That's right, this plant is deer resistant, so bring 'em on, the Ghost Weigela will scare them away. In the spring, the foliage emerges lemony-green and then transforms to a ghostly, iridescent buttercream in mid-summer. Equally impressive [...]

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HGTV (The Materials)

August 8, 2012

HGTV MATERIALS are always some of the best and trendiest products out there. Rightly so, they're a national network with lots of advertisers paying for their products to be featured. So, it's easy for them to keep there designs fresh and unique with all of the latest and greatest that the green industry has to [...]

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Breaking The Mold

August 1, 2012

To break the mold is to do something differently or uniquely to how it has been done before. When the existing mold does not continue to work anymore, or is imperfect, we break it and make a new one. Once it's broken it can not be put back together and used again. Or at least [...]

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Being Thankful

July 18, 2012

Here is a landscape we designed and installed a few years ago. I stopped back early in the morning to meet with the homeowner about a potential new project, and I couldn’t help but snap this pic as the 7am sun was shining through the trees. I was pleasantly surprised by how inviting it felt. [...]

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The Most Beautiful Flower In Minnesota

July 9, 2012

THE LADY'S SLIPPER ORCHID is the state flower of our wonderful land of ten thousand lakes. We learned that in 4th grade. Also, the loon is the state bird and if you go to any lake up north you will most certainly hear their laughing calls echoing across the lake. Its not even hard to [...]

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Happy 4th of July!

July 4, 2012

Back in march when we are preparing for the upcoming landscaping season, this day seems so far away. But here we are. At the mid point of the season. The 4th of July. Time flies when your having fun, right?! This has been a great season so far though, and we have been fortunate to [...]

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Bela Lugosi Daylily

June 20, 2012

BELA LUGOSI DAYLILY sounds scary! Bela Lugosi was most famous for playing Dracula in the black and white days, and it doesn’t seem a likely name for a flower. His character lured victims in by charming them with his handsome good looks. He was intriguing, with a dark side, and women couldn’t resist him. There [...]

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Fountains

June 13, 2012

  FOUNTAINS are great addition to your landscape for many reasons, but it seems that people shy away from them or consider them an after thought. Your landscape should appeal to all five of your senses, and fountains are not only a great visual, but also can provide a soothing sound as well. The fountain [...]

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