Make Your Own Paper Seedling Pots
May 5, 2021
By Colleen Smith: You’ll need: paper grocery bags, scissors, tub or sink for soaking paper, glass jar to use as a form, smaller jar...
Gardening as Science Education
May 5, 2021
By Jim Warland: While most kids use summer vacation to play, this eager young student used part of her summer last year to learn about...
Annuals for Shade
May 5, 2021
By Marcia Tatroe: Every time I see a shopping cart filled with flats of impatiens I see a missed opportunity. It’s not that impatiens...
What it Takes to Bring a Plant to Market
May 5, 2021
By Emily Goldman with Mike Bone: Exciting new plants don’t magically appear on shelves at garden centers each spring. Bringing plants to...
Starlings: Fascinating Garden-variety Dinosaurs
May 5, 2021
by R. Gary Raham: My wife Sharon and I raised Shakespeare one spring in the 1980s. Shakespeare was a starling. I classified the project...
Early Spring 2021: Notables
Mar 29, 2021
Excerpted from Civil Eats’ 2/2/21 “Beyond Bees, Neonics Damage Ecosystems – and a Push for Policy Change Is Coming” by Lisa Held Daniel...
How plants move water
Mar 29, 2021
by Paula Ogilvie: Drink Up! Imagine being rooted in place, unable to move around, yet requiring food, water, and shelter to survive. With...
Dirt as Mulch
Mar 26, 2021
By Carolyn Dunmire Growing in the Weatherhill: An occasional column from the southwest corner of the state where we grow with the dryland...
Chokeberries, Chokecherries, Sandcherries: Some Wild Fruits for Colorado
Mar 26, 2021
By Mikl Brawner These native and semi-wild fruiting plants are tough, easy to grow, adaptable, and very beneficial to bees, butterflies,...
Waterwise Champions: Don & Lynn Ireland
Mar 26, 2021
When Don Ireland began delving into his ancestral roots he started communicating with distant relatives. The outer limbs of the family...
Managing Weeds Without Poisons
Jan 19, 2021
People often repeat Ralph W. Emerson’s maxim: “A weed is a plant whose virtues remain undiscovered.” And although I appreciate the...
Colorado Food Summit Strengthens Rural-Urban Connections
Jan 19, 2021
Colorado is on the verge of major changes in our food system over the next 30 years. Will we be ready for it? That question is one of the...
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2020
Oct 1, 2020
It was easy to practice social distancing and enjoy myself at Gail Felzien’s family ranch/farm outside of Sterling last month, even in...
Colorado Plant Select® & Xeriscape Demonstration Gardens
Jan 1, 2020
(In alphabetical order by location) Roadside Park, HWY 34 (west side of town) & Custer Ave., Akron Washington County Events Center, 552...
Grow Hardy Ice Plants for a Vivid Display
May 16, 2019
by Jane Shellenberger: Twenty years ago most Coloradoans were growing traditional water-loving English garden plants because that’s what...
Beyond the Sting Wasps: There is Something to Love
May 5, 2021
Our fear and loathing of wasps is both self-induced, and a product of external sources of misinformation. When we equate “wasp” with a...
Growing Colorado Gardeners
May 5, 2021
By Carolyn Dunmire: When the Montezuma School to Farm Project (MSTFP) is mentioned to a group, the first question is usually, “Hey, isn’t...
The New Wave of Gardening
May 5, 2021
By Panayoti Kelaidis: Above: Kelly D Norris' home garden in Des Moines, Three Oaks Garden. This prairie planting is juxtaposed against a...
Grow Your Own, Grow It Up
May 5, 2021
By Judith Rice-Jones • Photos: Debra Othitis: Pandemic Gardening & Colorado Springs’ Garden Father Backyard gardening and hunger have...
Gardening Keeps Me (relatively) Young
May 5, 2021
By John Hershey: As diehard fans may remember, a while back the Broncos briefly had a quarterback by the name of Tim Tebow. There was...
Double Bottom Line Gardening
Mar 29, 2021
by Kenton Seth: I swear that when I’m an old guy with nothing to lose and someone says, “Yeah, I don’t buy from the local nursery; it’s...
Phosphorus: Too Much of a Good Thing
Mar 29, 2021
By Elizabeth Black For the last two years, I have produced and participated in the Citizen Science Soil Health Project (CSSHP), along...
Gardening Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine and the Hose Doesn’t Reach
Mar 26, 2021
by Marcia Tatroe When I started my garden in 1987 shade wasn’t an issue. It was a goal. At the time there were only two trees on my...
Finding Awesome, Adapted Seed
Mar 26, 2021
By Penn Parmenter It’s 2021 and everybody still wants to garden. Last year wasn’t just a fluke, there are more home gardeners now than...
Editor's Letter: Spring 2021
Mar 26, 2021
This spring really does feel like a new beginning. For one thing, with two feet of wet snow outside, what had been shaping up as an...
Trees That Speak
Jan 19, 2021
South of the town of Larkspur, on the ridge that divides the South Platte and Arkansas River watersheds, a trail winds up among junipers...
Editor’s Letter: Early Spring 2020
Jan 19, 2021
Another day, another decade. The sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and the last bits of snow on the north side of the house – from...
Editor's Letter: May 2020
May 1, 2020
With this quarantine a lot of us suddenly have time on our hands and no place to go. That’s a really big shift. Welcome to plant...
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2019
Oct 1, 2019
At Northern Water’s Annual Water Symposium in late May I had the opportunity to hear and meet Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s new Commissioner...
Coming to Life
May 15, 2019
by Jane Shellenberger: On the plains in northern Colorado gardens are asleep under a few inches of snow but honeybees are stirring. My...
Colorado Grows with Specialty Crop Block Grants
May 5, 2021
By Jodi Torpey: Growers from all parts of the country know agriculture is more than just corn and soybeans. AG also includes fruits,...
SHRUB PROFILE: New Mexican Privet
May 5, 2021
By Mikl Brawner: New Mexican Privet: Forestiera pubescens var. neomexicana Photo: Keith Williamson This Colorado native small tree or...
GREX
May 5, 2021
By Penn Parmenter: A Grex is a mixture of varieties growing together and encouraged to cross-pollinate. The seeds from those crosses are...
Notables: Alpine Plants & One Health
May 5, 2021
New N. American Strategy to Protect Alpine Plants Addressing the need for a global vision to protect plants, the Global Strategy for...
New Website!
Mar 30, 2021
In addition to celebrating 25 years of publishing in 2021, we're kicking off the new gardening season with a new website! Stay tuned as...
How to Prune & Care for Young Trees
Mar 29, 2021
by Mikl Brawner: Trees have it hard in Colorado. If it’s not the shallow and lean topsoil, it’s the low rainfall and low humidity, or the...
The Seven Natives that Will Show Up for You
Mar 26, 2021
By Lee Recca Photos: Duane Williams Growing native wildflowers can be exasperating. You see them prospering all over wild areas without...
Long Keepers
Mar 26, 2021
It all starts with the seeds By Deb Whittaker Decades ago I happened upon an Asian woman at the Boulder Farmer’s Market who sold 20-lb...
It isn’t cheating to copy Mother Nature
Mar 26, 2021
By R. Gary Raham While cheating on tests is rarely a good thing, winning nature’s survival test should prove to be the exception. When it...
Meteorological Spring Brings First Flowers
Jan 22, 2021
By the conventional calendar spring arrives at the end of the third week in March on the Vernal Equinox. For Front Range gardeners,...
Derice Pfefferkorn
Jan 19, 2021
I met Derice Pfefferkorn in an exercise class a few years ago. She was graceful and seemed close to my age so I noticed her. The mystique...
The Virtues and Vices of Gardening
Jan 19, 2021
The other morning, in a pensive moment at the sink brushing my teeth, this thought occurred to me: the bathroom vanity is the only piece...
Editor's Letter: April 2020
Apr 1, 2020
March 23 Two weeks after I wrote the letter below, everything has changed. One by one the states where my sisters (and friends) live have...
For Great Veggie Beds, Just Add Leaves
Sep 17, 2019
by Jane Shellenberger: In the fall when many municipalities accept or collect leaves for making mulch and compost, which they sell at low...