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Tips for Spring Gardening and Planting, with a Fond Farewell

Jan 2016

With the Coloradoan changing their format, this is my final column dispensing timely advice and design suggestions. It’s been a good run and I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to share my thoughts on ways to play harmoniously with nature inside the home and in the landscape.

Thoughts of Spring often bring a yearning for fresh ideas and something distinctively different from the past. Check out classes that are underway at local garden centers and botanic gardens, and pencil in Home Grown Food’s annual Seed Swap on March 6th at the Old Town Library. You can pick up seed packets there and an abundance of information while chatting it up with like-minded locals. Shake things up by selecting new varieties to expand your pallet and life experience. With a little bit of effort and know how, you could start eating salad greens by the end of the month.

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Messy Garden is OK and It Can Lead to Good Things

Sept 2015

I caught an eye and earful while sitting in my backyard seeking inspiration for this month’s column.

Honeybees, still abuzz, frantically gathered pollen from preferred pollinator plants such as raspberries, late summer blooming sedums, white flowering garlic chives and the edible blue flowers of borage. Do they sense something about the upcoming winter that we don’t?

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How the Garden Harvest is Shaping Up

August 2015

We are entering the home stretch of summer, hopefully ripe with summer harvests and colorful bouquets of garden flowers. Yet it’s been a strange year in the vegetable garden and we’ve needed to work a little more diligently to result in well deserved successes.

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Take a Stroll Through Your Yard to Make It Better

October 2015

The optimal window for installing ornamental plants has passed unless you are totally committed to watering often and thoroughly enough to keep new plantings from drying out during winter. However, it’s a fine time to get a jump on other things for next spring.

Grab a cup of coffee or tea and take a stroll around your yard this weekend. Start at the curb and slowly make your way to the back yard.

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The Best of Earth Day Action

April 2015

Earth Day can bring out the best of us in a number of ways. We can become more aware of current habits along with heartfelt, forwarding thinking practices so as to lessen our impact on the Earth and our fellow inhabitants.

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