Seasons Greetings, Colorado Gardener readers and friends!
Dec 21, 2022
Longing for color the other day, I went to my local garden center, The Flower Bin in Longmont. I was expecting to see Christmas cacti in...
Beheaded Beans
Aug 26, 2022
Q: I planted a bunch of bean seeds July 1st and had very poor germination though I watered 2X a day. One of the four that did sprout was...
PLANT SELECT TURNS 25
Aug 26, 2022
Not Just Another Pretty Face By Mikl Brawner: We gardeners see a lot of branded plants in branded pots, pushed with a lot of money to...
Reliable Easy-Care Bulbs for Colorado
Aug 25, 2022
Q: What are some reliably returning, easy care bulbs for our region? A: When the bulb catalogs arrive, it’s so tempting to order the...
Editor’s Letter: Harvest 2022
Aug 26, 2022
If you’ve been wanting to tear out your lawn and replace it with water-wise landscaping, the time has come. You already know about our...
Harvest Party
Aug 26, 2022
By Penn Parmenter: I miss parties. Remember those good old fashioned gatherings where people got together, brought food, told stories,...
5 Traditional Witch’s Herbs of Colorado
Aug 25, 2022
How to incorporate them for an enchanted life By Sara Stewart Martinelli: Throughout history, many plants have made their way into...
Honeyberry: The Delicious Blue Honeysuckle
Aug 25, 2022
By Bryan Prud’Homme: Imagine a beautiful, pest-resistant, non-invasive shrub that grows vigorously in our Colorado Front Range alkaline...
Struggling White Weeping Spruce
Aug 26, 2022
Q: I planted a beautiful white weeping spruce about on the west side of my garage in Denver in early May. It's struggling, maybe because...
Crevice Crazy
Aug 26, 2022
By Panayoti Kelaidis: The edges of most cities in America aren’t peppered like Denver is with “rock yards”—large outdoor stores where you...
Inspired by Galling Mysteries
Aug 25, 2022
By R. Gary Raham: Colleagues love to share epochal moments. These are times when expectations are dashed and they remember why their...
Beauty with a Purpose • David Salman
Aug 25, 2022
On June 5th we lost David Salman, the innovator who started High Country Gardens, Santa Fe Greenhouses, and Waterwise Gardening LLC. A...