Landscape Design for Minneapolis Winter

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Landscape Design for Minneapolis Winter

Did you know that a good landscape design can increase your visual enjoyment of the winter landscape? In Minnesota, particularly the Twin Cities of Minneapolis – St. Paul, we expect much snow during the winter. In this blog, we are going to focus on how to enhance your landscape view in Minneapolis during the winter. The following landscaping methods to improve your winter view are as follows:

  • Lighting Landscaping
    Uplighting or downlighting on trees enlighten your landscape views during the winter. ...
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28
JAN
0

Landscape Design, Lighting

Shrubs that provide color in the Winter landscape in Minneapolis MN

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Shrubs that provide color in the Winter landscape in Minneapolis MN

Choosing the right shrubs can enhance the front yard landscaping and curb appeal, which often requested by our landscape design clients in Minneapolis, MN. In this blog, we focus on the shrubs that provide beautiful color in the Winter landscape in Minneapolis – St. Paul, the Twin Cities area in Minnesota.

The shrubs that create aesthetic color in the Winter Minneapolis landscape include:

  • Redosier dogwood
  • Tatarian dogwood
  • Black chokeberry
  • Serviceberry, or juneberry
  • Winterberry

Particularly, Redosioer dogwood is a Minnesota native shrub with colorful red winter bark that ...

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17
NOV
0

Landscaping

Landscaping Ideas for Thanksgiving in Minneapolis

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Landscaping Ideas for Thanksgiving in Minneapolis

If you want to impress Thanksgiving holiday guests, start with your landscape design, because your landscape is the first thing your guests see when they get into your Minneapolis home in Minnesota for Thanksgiving dinner.

In this blog, we focus on landscaping ideas for Thanksgiving. The landscaping ideas for Thanksgiving in Minneapolis or Minnesota include:

  • Consider how the Thanksgiving colors such as Oranges, reds, browns, and yellows will compliment your home landscape design.
  • Add Fall flowers such as marigolds, pansies, primroses, and other ...
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3
NOV
0

Landscape Design, Landscaping

Fall Landscaping Ideas – Fall Flowers

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Fall Landscaping Ideas – Fall Flowers

One of Fall landscaping ideas for Minnesota is to plant Fall flowers such as Michaelmas Daisy, since purple is Minnesota Viking’s color and officially in for Fall. Those flowers actually bloom in response to the shortening days.

It’d be a good idea to hire landscape designers or architects to design your landscape with the Fall flowers. Especially, if you want a modern landscape design, a landscape architect or designer can put the Fall flowers together in contemporary color to make ...

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2
OCT
0

Landscape Design, Landscaping

Landscaping for Minneapolis Homeowners in the Fall

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Landscaping for Minneapolis Homeowners in the Fall

It is beneficial to do the following landscaping for Minneapolis homeowners during the Fall in Minnesota:

  • Planting plants, shurbs & trees
  • Lawn maintenance, renovation and replacement
  • Irrigation and Drainage

Fall is the best time to install new plant materials in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The cooler temperatures and increased rain contribute to root development and reduces the plant’s initial transplanted shock. Transplant shock is also reduced because the plants go dormancy during the cold winter in Minnesota. Planting plants, shrubs and trees during the Fall provides ...

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14
SEP
0

Drainage, Irrigation, Landscaping

Landscaping Trend 2019 – Low Maintenance Gardens

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Landscaping Trend 2019 – Low Maintenance Gardens

One of landscaping trends for 2019 for Minneapolis homeowners is to have a low maintenance garden. Back in 2013, sustainability was not the mainstream in landscaping or landscape design in Minneapolis, but now, low-maintenance gardens, less turfgrass, and drought-tolerant plants have become the norm in landscape design in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis – St. Paul in Minnesota. Minneapolis homeowners now assume sustainable landscape design will be a major part of the landscaping plan both for economic and environmental reasons. ...

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31
AUG
0

Landscape Design, Landscaping

Landscaping Tips – Look Inside-out

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Landscaping Tips – Look Inside-out

One of successful landscaping secrets is to look out at what your landscape would look like from the inside of your house. Planning and designing the landscape view from the inside of your house helps landscape architects and designers to comprehend what you are looking for landscaping.

If you use one of landscape design apps, it can be done easily. The important thing is to provide your landscaping ideas clearly with your landscape designers or architects, so that they can turn ...

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26
AUG
0

Landscaping

Native Minnesota Plants for Landscaping in Minneapolis

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Native Minnesota Plants for Landscaping in Minneapolis

During Summer, you can still add those native Minnesota plants to your landscape in Minneapolis – St. Paul, the Twin Cities area. The following shrubs, trees and perennials are the native MN plants that you want to add to your landscape to make it more naturally appealing:

Shrubs:

  • Bush Honeysuckle
  • Dogwoods
  • Nannyberry Viburnum
  • Smooth Sumac

Trees:

  • Pagoda Dogwood
  • Bur oak
  • Quaking Aspen

 

Perennials:

  • Ostrich Fern
  • Bleeding Heart
  • Jacob’s ladder
  • Solomon’s seal
  • Asclepias
  • Joe-pye Weed
  • Echinacea Purpurea
  • Liatrus
  • Veronica
  • Lobelia
  • Agastache
  • Perennial Grasses

Natural Environments Corporation (NEC), one of the most trusted landscaping companies in Minneapolis MN can help you with choosing the right ...

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21
AUG
0

Landscaping

Landscaping Pool Area Ideas

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Landscaping Pool Area Ideas

When it comes to landscaping for pool areas, it is highly recommended to carefully choose the plants near a outdoor swimming pool, because some plants grow quickly and drop leaves and debris into your pool. Landscape architects suggest that we pick the plants or ornamental grasses that thrive when planted next to a swimming pool and also blend in with the rest of your landscaping elements.

Here’s an example of landscaping pool area ideas for your Minneapolis home or residential property ...

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20
AUG
0

Landscape Design, Landscaping

Landscaping with Native Minnesota Plants

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Landscaping with native Minnesota plants not only add natural beauty, but also provide benefits to your garden. According to Susan Bachman West on KARE 11 News at 4 from Golden Valley, MN mentioned the following benefits of landscaping with native MN plants.

  • Low maintenance. Minnesota native plants are used to growing in Minnesota’s environment, so they often require fewer maintenance, They also require less watering and mulching.
  • Protected water supply. These native Minnesota plants have extensive root ...
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18
AUG
0

Landscape Design, Landscaping

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