I know just about everywhere else in the  country has made some charge into spring with warm weather and buds on trees. But here in St. Paul we’re still melting our way out from under the last 8″ of snow that fell on Monday of this past week. My sump pump has been putting  in over-time working to keep the basement dry as we have no ground cover to absorb the massive melting that has happened over the past few days as temps have soared into the 60’s, a 30 degree change in roughly 5 days time.On Friday I met with my good friend and landscape architect Dustin Halverson to take a look at some landscaping solutions for our yard. I have a lot of big ideas and some basic wants and needs for the yard and certainly need the expert of someone like Dustin to help me cultivate those ideas into something that will actually work for our yard. We spent a couple of hours walking around the lot accessing what the potential needs were and what alternative solutions we could implement in order to bring them to life for my modest budget.Unfortunately landscaping coming at the end of the project probably always suffers from both a diminished budget and sliding level of enthusiasim as most people have reached there end well before this stage of the process. For me the downtown over the winter months has left me with terrible case of spring fever and knowing that even when it does finally arrive I have nothing more than a mud pit surrounding my home has me itching to get the landscaping in. As I had mentioned before I wrote for a grant from the Ramsey Washington Country Watershed District and will need to implement the ideas I proposed in the plan along with a variety of new ideas that I came up with this winter. I’m also counting on Dustin to bring his skills and expertise to the table as he seems to really have a natural grasp on what types of plants, materials and forms will best work with the surrounding environment.  

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