The Wild Companions Entrance Garden at Colorado State University (CSU)
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Book Review: A New Garden Ethic
By Benjamin Vogt Book review by Deborah Lebow Aal A New Garden Ethic, by Benjamin Vogt, is a call to action to completely shift our ideas of how to garden, and what a garden should be. Vogt is calling for a time of “defiant compassion.” He wants us to stop thinking of gardens for human […] Continue reading "Book Review: A New Garden Ethic"
Tips on What NOT to Do with Your Native Plant Garden
By Deborah Lebow Aal* I hate to be negative, but I see these garden blunders over and over and over again. I want to shout when I see landscapers working, knowing that the homeowner will eventually suffer the consequences of what they are doing. Here is a list of things that you should consider if […] Continue reading "Tips on What NOT to Do with Your Native Plant Garden"
Plant Spotlight: Smooth Sumac
Rhus glabra By Karen Vanderwall and Kristine Johnson Smooth sumac is a multi-stemmed woody plant or shrub native to the Front Range of Colorado as well as southwestern Colorado. A special feature of this shrub is that the leaves turn bright red in the fall, often forming wide brilliant swaths of scarlet across the landscape. […] Continue reading "Plant Spotlight: Smooth Sumac"
Top Autumn Native Plants
By Karen Vanderwall By the end of August, native plant gardeners sigh and can enjoy the fruits of their labor – beautiful blooms, numerous species of bees, hummingbirds, perhaps fluttering monarchs and feeling the joy, the pride of a successful gardening season. But wait – the season isn’t over yet! Native fall-blooming plants and shrubs […] Continue reading "Top Autumn Native Plants"
Aquilegia coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine, Blue Columbine) – Perennial Forb – Native Plant Species Sheet
Aquilegia coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine, Blue Columbine) – Perennial Forb – Native Plant Species Sheet Download the PDF by clicking on the image above. View all of our Native Plant Species Sheets provided by Front Range Wild Ones.(Thanks Peggy for helping create all of these great sheets!) Continue reading "Aquilegia coerulea (Rocky Mountain Columbine, Blue Columbine) – Perennial Forb – Native Plant Species Sheet"
Habitat Gardening is for the Birds!
By Kristine Johnson A few years ago, I applied for and received a Terra Foundation Grant from the Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference. This meant $1000 toward native plants which supported birds, while also requiring turf removal and tracking biodiversity in some way in my yard. We removed the last of the lawn in […] Continue reading "Habitat Gardening is for the Birds!"
Book Review: One Garden Against the World
By Lani Rush In author Kate Bradbury’s own words, she specializes in practical wildlife gardening and her latest book One Garden Against the World is a memoir told over the course of a year in her ‘modest’ and ‘relatable’ garden in the United Kingdom. In it, she focuses on the power of small fixes like […] Continue reading "Book Review: One Garden Against the World"
Datura: An Unnatural Native Plant
By Richard Phillips Datura in Full Bloom (All Photos by Vicki Saragoussi Phillips, unless noted otherwise) One of my wife’s (Vicki) favorite plants is poisonous. I was supposed to write an article about the Maximilian Sunflower (Helianthus maximiliani). In bed last night, I spent wakeful interludes making a mental list of what I needed to […] Continue reading "Datura: An Unnatural Native Plant"
Overlooked Native Plants
By Kristine Johnson Imagine a native plant garden. What do you see? Most of us picture colorful and attractive flowers, mostly of a certain shape and a certain height, but growing native plants is so much more than that. This article will encourage you to think a little outside the box to consider different types […] Continue reading "Overlooked Native Plants"