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Category: Landscape Design

Borrow Scenery Beyond Your Boundaries: Plan Now To Make Small Yards Appear Larger

A small space doesn’t need to have the feeling of being confined even though obvious boundaries can make a space appear restricted. We can help by building fences, retaining stone walls, and plantings with imagination that do both the job of defining your space or yard and expand it. You can obscure boundaries and give a larger feel by several methods. Simple masses of green in your landscape plan can easily blur the distinction between your garden and the neighboring properties when your carefully crafted plan includes the right trees, shrubs, or vines. If you have boundaries that are really

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Plan for Color in the Garden Now: Color It Warm or Cool!

Your choices of color will determine whether your garden feels warm or cool. Thinking of your small garden as an outdoor living room that needs to be painted is extremely helpful. You can do this exercise anytime whether it’s Minnesota landscaping in winter, spring, fall or summer. The question is, “How do you want the space to feel?” The use of warm or cool colors in a small garden are critical, they can open it up or make it feel confined. Cool colors—those centered on green, blue, and violet-tend to retreat visually, giving the impression of greater space. While warm

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Garden Unity, Balance, Transition, Proportion: Make Beautiful Landscapes Sing

Landscape Architects have studied these basic principles as part of their design studies at a university and are trained to create landscape design. Landscape Contractors are installation specialists, who work closely with the Landscape Architects and Designers. At MN Architectural Landscape Design we have Garden Designers, Landscape Architects and we are Landscape Contractors.

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Landscaping in Minnesota With Your Grandkids in Mind

Preparing a place for grandkids, as well as your own kids, can provide some of the happiest times in your life, and it doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Using the experience and expertise of professionals like those found at Minneapolis’ Architectural Landscape Design will help give you some ideas about how you can improve your family gatherings and create memories for the next generation.

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Free Admission: Apple Valley Chamber Home &Garden Expo ~March 31, 9 am-3 pm

Come and talk to us about your landscaping dreams at the Apple Valley Home & Garden Show! It’s easy to attend because there is FREE parking and admission. In addition, there are things for children to do as they are featuring Minnesota Zoo animals and free children’s arts and crafts. ALD is a featured landscape design exhibitor at the show that covers the latest in home, garden, landscaping, remodeling and much more! It’s a great time to plan any landscaping or garden project you have in mind. We are a multi-speciality landscape company. Our licensed and educated landscape designers and

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Join Us: 2012 Lakeville Landscape & Home Expo & Consumer Showcase, Saturday, March 17th 9 am-3 pm

It’s a great time to start planning your landscaping project for spring! Come and see us at the 2012 Lakeville Landscape & Home Expo & Consumer Showcase being held at the Lakeville High School. Admission and Events are FREE. Over 150 exhibitors covering all the needs for home improvement projects will be there. We can create whatever landscaping you need from water features to building outdoor kitchens, pools, decks, patios, irrigation, lighting plus more. You’ll find our landscape design staff to be enthusiastic listeners who welcome working with your ideas, needs and desires. No two projects that we work on

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