Apr 12Super 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...
Apr 12Nature’s Best HopeDoug Tallamy, renowned ecologist and entomologist, spoke at the CO Native Plant Society Conference last September. Here are some...
Sep 13, 2021Finding Pollinator Safe Plants – a SummaryAmid increasing concern about the immediate as well as long-term, cumulative effects of sytemic pesticides, especially neonicotinoids, on...
Aug 27, 2021New Buzz about Ways to Help Threatened PollinatorsBy: R. Gary Raham: As we all know, bees visit flowers and inadvertently help the plants producing those flowers to consummate their sex...
Aug 27, 2021Mulch Zones for Three Kinds of GardenBy Kenton Seth: Above: Cactus and desert plants are archetypical of the gravel zone. PHOTOS: Kenton Seth The Lazy Greedy Gardeners...
Aug 27, 2021Nowhere to Go: Alpine Environments in PerilPHOTOS: Todd Winslow Pierce/BFAG Covering just 15% of the Earth’s land surface, the alpine environment is defined both by the climate...
Aug 26, 2021Late Summer Bloomers that can Take the HeatWhen 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...
Aug 26, 2021Hooked on Rock GardeningBy Jane Shellenberger: Mike Smedley doesn’t have fond childhood garden memories. He remembers the hot, sweaty, hand-blistering job of...
Aug 26, 2021Native Plant EventsThe 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...
May 5, 2021SHRUB PROFILE: New Mexican PrivetBy Mikl Brawner: New Mexican Privet: Forestiera pubescens var. neomexicana Photo: Keith Williamson This Colorado native small tree or...
May 5, 2021The New Wave of GardeningBy Panayoti Kelaidis: Above: Kelly D Norris' home garden in Des Moines, Three Oaks Garden. This prairie planting is juxtaposed against a...
Mar 26, 2021The 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...
Mar 26, 2021Chokeberries, 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,...
Mar 26, 2021Finding Awesome, Adapted SeedBy 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...
Mar 26, 2021Waterwise Champions: Don & Lynn IrelandWhen Don Ireland began delving into his ancestral roots he started communicating with distant relatives. The outer limbs of the family...
Sep 1, 2018Giving 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...
Aug 1, 2018Collecting Seed in the WildBy 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...
May 1, 2018Is “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,...