Stonepocket Unique Landscapes

04/15/2019

Looking like spring is finally arriving here in Minnesota which will bring on a long dormant cornucopia of color. One of my favorite places to visit is the Grace B. Dayton Wildflower Garden at the University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. The delicate woodland spring ephemerals usually steal the....

04/12/2019

Stonpocket was just featured in a Houzz article on how to attract pollinators to your landscape. Click on the link below to read the article. Nice to see Houzz feature information on sustainability.

03/07/2019

Many years ago on my way to Door County in Wisconsin quickly pulled the car over off of highway 57. My wife, girl friend at the time, ask what the world I was doing. ‘Look at all the Trillium! It’s incredible,’ I responded. There must have been thousand of Large Leaf Trillium in bloom and...

02/05/2019

Walking the Northshore of Lake Superior I have encounter plants that look like a bowl of salad from it’s rosette of basal leaves. Heuchera richardsonii (Prairie Alumroot) is a tough native plant of not only Minnesota but ranges form Michigan down to Oklahoma and over to Montana. Being native to op...

02/05/2019

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01/13/2019

A new outdoor furniture company called Yardbird is located locally in St. Louis Park is disrupting the market by producing sustainable furniture sold directly to the consumer. The father-son team, Bob and Jay Dillon, are producing eco-friendly furniture made from ocean plastics. In 2017, their first...

01/02/2019

Happy New Year from Stonepocket

Pantone 2019 color of the year - Living Coral

04/19/2018

04/17/2018

Every year Patone Color Institute selects a 'Color of the Year'. 2018 color is Ultra Violet. The following are a few selections in bringing Ultra Violet into your landscape.

Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, says: ‘We are living in a time that requires inventiveness and imagination. It is this kind of creative inspiration that is indigenous to PANTONE 18-3838 Ultra Violet, a blue-based purple that takes our awareness and potential to a higher level. From exploring new technologies and the greater galaxy to artistic expression and spiritual reflection, intuitive Ultra Violet lights the way to what is yet to come.’

12/14/2017

  With Christmas less than two weeks away I was thinking what plants in the landscape really make the spirits bright. Winterberry or Ilex, is the hands down first to mind with its persistent red berries that hang on long after the fall leaf drop. Well at least they are persistent until the birds st...

12/14/2017

More information about conifers.

A guide to evergreens, conifers, christmas tree types, dwarf conifers, miniature conifers, gold, blue

12/14/2017