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...
Colorado Gardener Articles
Read our articles from our Colorado Gardening Issues below.
- Apr 12
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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- Mar 26, 2021
The Seven Natives that Will Show Up for You
By Lee Recca Photos: Duane Williams Growing native wildflowers can be exasperating. You see them prospering all over wild areas without...
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- Mar 26, 2021
Chokeberries, Chokecherries, Sandcherries: Some Wild Fruits for Colorado
By Mikl Brawner These native and semi-wild fruiting plants are tough, easy to grow, adaptable, and very beneficial to bees, butterflies,...
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- Mar 26, 2021
Finding Awesome, Adapted Seed
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...
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- Mar 26, 2021
Waterwise Champions: Don & Lynn Ireland
When Don Ireland began delving into his ancestral roots he started communicating with distant relatives. The outer limbs of the family...
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- Aug 31, 2018
Giving Ecological Purpose to Your Landscape - Part II
By Douglas W. Tallamy: Excerpted from Giving Ecological Purpose to Your Landscape Read Part I » It is not actually the number of species...
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- Jul 31, 2018
Collecting Seed in the Wild
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...
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- May 1, 2018
Is “Insect Armageddon” for Real?
By Eric R. Eaton: With so much misinformation and hyperbole streaming at us through social media, television, and other news outlets,...
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