The Overlooked Understory
By Panayoti Kelaidis: Everyone loves trees; we still have people complaining about the removal of a hollow weeping willow from Denver...
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Colorado Gardener Articles
Read our articles from our Colorado Gardening Issues below.
- Aug 24
Trees in the Apocalypse
By Kenton Seth: When I was a youth in a town surrounded by obvious desertification, I was steeped in that predictable and cynical...
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- Aug 24
Poison, Food & Medicine
By Mikl Brawner: If you read through the List of Poisonous Plants in Wikipedia and see how many are common in our everyday lives, you...
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- Aug 24
Easy Alpines for Colorado Gardeners
By Mike Kintgen: As summers get hotter and hotter, alpines may not be on most gardeners’ radar, yet here are five easily grown, Colorado...
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- Apr 14
STRETCHING OUR WATER
By Mikl Brawner: Colorado’s climate is classified as semi-arid high desert. We know that water has always been our Achilles heel, our...
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- Apr 14
Fort Collins’ Botanical Gem: The Gardens on Spring Creek
Most people in the garden-centric city of Fort Collins know about the Gardens on Spring Creek (GOSC). It got its name in 2000, three...
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- Apr 14
Going Native
By Carolyn Dunmire: Incorporating native plants into your garden has a multitude of benefits, according to Mary Menz, a Colorado Native...
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- Apr 14
Microchips now used to detect saguaro theft
Saguaro cactus can grow to up to 50 feet tall, weigh up to six tons and live for 200 years. The National Park near Tucson is named for...
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- Dec 21, 2022
Seasons Greetings, Colorado Gardener readers and friends!
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...
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- Apr 12, 2022
Super Bloom!
Trust The Seed By Penn Parmenter: Ask the earth about the shelf life of seeds and she will answer in wildflowers you’ve never seen...
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- Apr 12, 2022
Nature’s Best Hope
Doug Tallamy, renowned ecologist and entomologist, spoke at the CO Native Plant Society Conference last September. Here are some...
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- Sep 13, 2021
Finding Pollinator Safe Plants – a Summary
Amid increasing concern about the immediate as well as long-term, cumulative effects of sytemic pesticides, especially neonicotinoids, on...
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- Aug 27, 2021
New Buzz about Ways to Help Threatened Pollinators
By: R. Gary Raham: As we all know, bees visit flowers and inadvertently help the plants producing those flowers to consummate their sex...
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- Aug 27, 2021
Mulch Zones for Three Kinds of Garden
By Kenton Seth: Above: Cactus and desert plants are archetypical of the gravel zone. PHOTOS: Kenton Seth The Lazy Greedy Gardeners...
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- Aug 27, 2021
Nowhere to Go: Alpine Environments in Peril
PHOTOS: Todd Winslow Pierce/BFAG Covering just 15% of the Earth’s land surface, the alpine environment is defined both by the climate...
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- Aug 26, 2021
Late Summer Bloomers that can Take the Heat
When July and August heat rises into the upper 90’s day after day only perennials best adapted to the west can bloom, cheering up the...
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- Aug 26, 2021
Hooked on Rock Gardening
By Jane Shellenberger: Mike Smedley doesn’t have fond childhood garden memories. He remembers the hot, sweaty, hand-blistering job of...
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- Aug 26, 2021
Native Plant Events
The Colorado Native Plant Society’s Annual Conference is in Trinidad, CO this year, Sept 10-12, or you can attend virtually. It’s a great...
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- May 5, 2021
SHRUB PROFILE: New Mexican Privet
By Mikl Brawner: New Mexican Privet: Forestiera pubescens var. neomexicana Photo: Keith Williamson This Colorado native small tree or...
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- May 5, 2021
The New Wave of Gardening
By Panayoti Kelaidis: Above: Kelly D Norris' home garden in Des Moines, Three Oaks Garden. This prairie planting is juxtaposed against a...
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