Every year the National Garden Bureau names their plants of the year. They select one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop, one edible, one houseplant, and one shrub to be featured as their “Year [...]

Nowhere is it written that you can’t still enjoy your garden in the winter! Adding varieties such as these can keep your garden looking lovely through more than one season. They also provide [...]

Growing up in the Colorado mountains, I have always been wary of wildfires; I was six years old the first time a wildfire threatened our home. But that was many years and many fires ago. Now we [...]

With just a little more than two weeks of official summer left , it’s that time of the year again when we must start thinking about preparing our gardens for winter and PurposeFall [...]

How to Keep it Cool When the Garden Heats Up These are the Dog Days of Summer for sure!  Here in Colorado, there are multiple 100+ degree days in this weekend’s forecast.  I’m not a fan [...]

The sweet smell of spring is in the air, and it is beckoning all the bustling pollinators out to play.  The hummingbirds have returned, the bees have come out of hibernation, and butterflies are [...]

Since April is National Garden Month, I wanted to talk about some of my favorite fun and easy types of gardens.  These gardens are great for beginners and extra fun to plant with children! [...]