Colorado Gardener Articles

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...

Doug Tallamy, renowned ecologist and entomologist, spoke at the CO Native Plant Society Conference last September. Here are some...

Amid increasing concern about the immediate as well as long-term, cumulative effects of sytemic pesticides, especially neonicotinoids, on...

By: R. Gary Raham: As we all know, bees visit flowers and inadvertently help the plants producing those flowers to consummate their sex...

By Kenton Seth: Above: Cactus and desert plants are archetypical of the gravel zone. PHOTOS: Kenton Seth The Lazy Greedy Gardeners...

PHOTOS: Todd Winslow Pierce/BFAG Covering just 15% of the Earth’s land surface, the alpine environment is defined both by the climate...

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...

By Jane Shellenberger: Mike Smedley doesn’t have fond childhood garden memories. He remembers the hot, sweaty, hand-blistering job of...

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...

By Mikl Brawner: New Mexican Privet: Forestiera pubescens var. neomexicana Photo: Keith Williamson This Colorado native small tree or...

By Panayoti Kelaidis: Above: Kelly D Norris' home garden in Des Moines, Three Oaks Garden. This prairie planting is juxtaposed against a...

By Lee Recca Photos: Duane Williams Growing native wildflowers can be exasperating. You see them prospering all over wild areas without...

By Mikl Brawner These native and semi-wild fruiting plants are tough, easy to grow, adaptable, and very beneficial to bees, butterflies,...

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...

When Don Ireland began delving into his ancestral roots he started communicating with distant relatives. The outer limbs of the family...

By Douglas W. Tallamy: Excerpted from Giving Ecological Purpose to Your Landscape Read Part I » It is not actually the number of species...

By Penn Parmenter: I’ve always wondered if grabbing a handful of seed from the National Forest is ok. Is it legal? I know it’s not legal...

By Eric R. Eaton: With so much misinformation and hyperbole streaming at us through social media, television, and other news outlets,...