Colorado Gardener Articles

Building a garden over time is one of the pleasures of this earth. We add new plants each year while others proliferate on their own....

I’m not sure why people assume that it’s difficult to find content for a magazine like this. If anything I have the opposite problem....

Our Late Spring issue covers a particularly wide range of topics, from a simple individual science project sparked at a community garden...

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...

It was easy to practice social distancing and enjoy myself at Gail Felzien’s family ranch/farm outside of Sterling last month, even in...

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...

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...

At Northern Water’s Annual Water Symposium in late May I had the opportunity to hear and meet Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s new Commissioner...

Ah, Spring. So far it’s a cool, moist, forgiving season. Even better, I now have a schedule that lets me spend time in the garden when it...

Here’s what you’ll find inside the issue. Entomologist Eric R Eaton tells you about human inventions - everything from paper to GPS...

I really love my job. Still, after 21 years as editor/publisher I‘m yearning to cut back. Those four spring deadlines are tough. As a...

Our Cover Hellebores are early bloomers in Colorado gardens. My dark red ones start in February and continue for months, while the...

In this issue we feature several plant and plant family profiles. Amaranth, on our cover, is a nutritional powerhouse grain alternative....

It’s a great feeling when the May issue goes to press. The veggies are coming up, and the tulips and daffodils are still cheerful and...

It’s always a little frustrating to be gardening virtually and vicariously instead of getting my hands in the dirt this time of year. But...

It’s time to reap the harvest in the veggie garden. Even my scaled back garden is cranking out way more food than we can eat. My sister...

This year marks Colorado Gardener’s 20th anniversary. We’ve published over 100 issues for our semi-arid climate with a focus on beauty,...

There will be no more offhand pronouncements from me about the weather. After my comments last month – “Spring came early this year… dry...

Spring came early this year. And even though the last average spring frost date is in early to mid May for most of the Front Range, it’s...

Whenever I teach a class or go to a gardening conference where the audience asks questions, the one that inevitably arises is: How do I...