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by Mike Kintgen, Denver Botantical Gardens
This pdf document outlines a number of easy care plants to use in your rock garden or xeriscape. The text includes where the plant is originally from, type of growing conditions it likes and the latin name of species. Just click on the link to open then save or print.
by Chris Gray
The day after our September garden club meeting, my husband and I made a trip to New York City to attend a wedding. While there, we went to see the Dale Chihuly exhibition at the New York Botanical Gardens.
Mama Makes Up Her Mind
by Bailey White submitted by Frances Sorensen
About six years ago, like so many romantic gardening fools, I fell for it: The wildflower meadow. I don't know whether it was the pictures on the seed packets, or the vision I had of myself, dressed all in white, strolling through an endless vista of poppies and daisies. "A garden in a can," the seed catalogs said. The pictures showed a scene of rolling hills and dales, an area about the size of Georgia and Alabama combined, covered solid as far as the eye could see with billowing drifts of lupine and phlox.
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Native Plants for Evergreen Gardens
by Nan Spence
Natives are “in” in the garden. At the March meeting of the Evergreen Garden Club, our program “Go Native!” was enthusiastically received by the largest audience of the year.
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by Julaine Kennedy
Information you need to get the most from the plants you buy for the holidays. Tips on Poinsettias, Easter Lily, Amaryllis and other forced bulbs.
By Pricilla Chapin
A blanket of snow can transform your garden, literally overnight, from a bleak winter scene to a sparkling, magical tableau. We gardeners have an abundance of showy summer performers at our disposal. But it's in winter that we have the real star player.
From In My Garden By John Cretti
As the month of February has rolled around, it's time to think about
a meaningful gift for your favorite Valentine. Instead of the traditional
bouquet of cut, long-stemmed roses, why not give a gift that keeps
on growing and flowering.
by Joan Reynolds
Late last summer, I finally got another garden put in. It had been
a while since I rediscovered why they call it the Rocky Mountains,
so I though I’d share my process with
you.
by Bill Campbell
Compost is the familiar and valuable garden byproduct that we have good intentions of producing in quantity and utilizing to assure great soil tilth, fertility and bountiful yield.
by Liz Hamilton
On a recent trip to the UK I found that the fashionable English country gardener is experimenting with grasses in the landscape.
compiled by Ray Daugherty
Horticulture Faculty - Front Range Community College
by Garden Club Members
Another source of organic material for your compost can come from your vacuum cleaner bags!
by Joan Reynolds
You do not necessarily need a fence to have vines. To add vertical interest to a garden, you can make a teepee with plant stakes or put in a pole and tie strings in a circular or semi-circular arrangement for vines to grow up.
by Joan Reynolds
After years of gardening for the elk & deer, I finally demanded we get "elk proof" fencing.
by J.R. Feucht and J.E. Klett
Water trees, shrubs and lawns during prolonged dry fall and winter periods to prevent root damage that affects the health of the entire plant.
by EGC Weed Committe
Time to get your weed management program outlined and acted upon !
by the Denver Water Department
The word "Xeriscape," was coined by the Denver Water Department in 1981 to help make water conserving landscaping an easily recognized concept.
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