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by Windsor Companies

St Paul / Minneapolis, MN, US 55109 · 82 photos

Orono

http://www.windsorcompanies.com

An elegantly landscaped estate was designed to frame views, offer tranquility, and provide numerous spaces with a variety of experiences.

Long, meandering bluestone paths interconnect formal garden spaces with natural woodlands. World-famous bronze sculpture provides personality to an otherwise pastoral place. Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en masse to firmly shape garden spaces. A stone wall retains the generous main bluestone terrace. Though it resides a half-mile from the water, the home is positioned perfectly to provide a captivating view of Lake Minnetonka.

Over many years the evolution of this home and landscape has earned Windsor Companies numerous design awards from the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

Photos by Paul Crosby

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Claire Anastasia wrote:

shrubs - what are the beautiful shrubs with the purple flowers lining the retaining wall? thx! »

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added by Becky Harris to Garden Tour: Formal French Design on Lake Minnetonka

The formal stucco walls that edge the rectilinear terrace out back become less formal as they curve around the right side of the house. Lady's mantle and Brookside geraniums accentuate this portion of the wall's edge in green, yellow and purple.This sinuous portion of the wall overlooks the cutting garden, arbor and tennis court. "Windsor also did extensive and amazing work renovating the inside of the house, but almost everyone who comes over comments on how much they love the landscape," says Arnosti. It's easy to see why.

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Like the terracing idea

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Plants

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Client preference

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I like the combo of purple and green

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Stone wall

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Borde

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Backyard

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Base with logs on top

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Rock wall

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Type of wall

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Wall

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Retaining wall

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stone

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For backyard

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Stone edging for flower beds

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Lady's mantle shade groundcover

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Stone wall

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lady's mantle border

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Wall

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retaining wall to hem in patio on hill side

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Border

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Retaining wall with sitting ledge.

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the plants in the rockery

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Wall

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rock

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estrella de belen

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terraced garden bed

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Garden

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stone wall with cap

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Backyard

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Lady's mantle and Brookside geraniums

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Tiered rock wall - backyard?

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Retaining wall

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For our front yard

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Front landscape

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Garden

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Green

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clean flower border

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Lady's mantel and brookside geraniums line the stone wall

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the stone wall

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Raised bed planting

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plants

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stone wall

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Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en masse to firmly sha.

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Garden aroundwall

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Stone landscaping beautiful

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Cap on the stone wall

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seating

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Step down. Tree above.

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Border

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Rock wall

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Single stone wall with landscaping behind it

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jenns yard

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Landscape

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need this in back yard

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retaining wall

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pachysandra hosta and heuchera groundcovers

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Beautiful

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lady's mantle and blue geranium

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Pathway

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Lady's mantle and geraniums

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Ladies mantle

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stone wall

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gardeb beauty

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Retainer wall

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Low planting for back wall

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An elegantly landscaped estate was designed to frame views, offer tranquility, and provide numerous spaces with a variety of experiences. Long, meandering bluestone paths interconnect formal garden spaces with natural woodlands. World-famous bronze sculpture provides personality to an otherwise pastoral place. Groundcovers of Pachysandra, Hosta, and Heuchera are planted en masse to firmly shape garden spaces. A stone wall retains the generous main bluestone terrace. Though it resides a ha...

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river rock stone

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nashville

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plantings by wall

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Front yard

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Retaining Wall Idea