Looking to spruce up your Colorado garden?
Today GPOD is visiting Cathy Hollis in Englewood, Colorado. She is sharing photos of her beautiful, colorful English border garden.
Find the Best Vegetables to Grow in Colorado with this Ultimate Guide. You'll even learn why you should grow them and how to grow them in Colorado!
Five easy climbers that will give your Colorado garden more privacy
Make your landscaping efforts more rewarding and less labor-intensive with these drought-resistant flowers.
If you're thinking about starting a Colorado vegetable garden this post provides pictures and the advice you'll need. High elevation gardening tips and advice.
Help conserve water (and your wallet) by xeriscaping. Follow these easy steps from local experts to start your own water-wise garden.
When it comes to planning or updating the landscaping on your property, the possibilities on what to do with the land can be overwhelmingly endless. You
Printing note: This design was created to be 8.5″ x 14″ and the design pdf will print best on legal size paper. Overview Front Range Colorado gardening is unique thanks to a cold and dry climate, and we have always had to do things differently: planting, sourcing, and care, so the design offers guidance to […]
Grass serves as the foundation of most backyards and gardens, but it can also be used to incorporate amazing designs while also keeping water consumption
Since moving my family to Colorado earlier this year, I have found that growing perennials in the mountainous region can be difficult.
The best way to see Garden of the Gods is on your feet. Use this guide to the best Garden of the Gods hikes before your next Colorado Springs trip.
Looking to spruce up your Colorado garden?
Natural backyard landscaping is a wonderful way to create eco friendly outdoor living spaces that allows to save money and effort on gardening and spend more time enjoying the natural beauty of the spectacular surroundings
From native plants to outdoor structures, learn about the must-have Colorado landscape additions. Create a stunning outdoor space with our tips.
Colorado is one of the most beautiful states in America, and it comes with variable climate and soil conditions. As a result, choosing plants and shrubs that
GARDEN OF THE GODS, COLORADO Garden of the Gods is a spectacular site that I couldn’t wait to visit with my family while traveling in Colorado. Just imagine wandering among…
Are you a native of Colorado and looking to spruce up your landscaping? Adding flowering shrubs and trees is the perfect way to add both color and fragrance
Many of us have a love-hate relationship with our lawns. Although we enjoy the cool carpet of green grass to lie on and play on in summer, no one wants to spend hours every weekend mowing and trimming—not to mention battling weeds, insects, and fungus, and aerating, feeding, watering, and seeding. Turf lawns take a lot of time and money to maintain. They require the use of precious water resources to keep them alive, and the pesticides and herbicides we apply to them can damage the environment. More and more, people are turning to low-maintenance, no-mow lawn alternatives like meadows, rock gardens, and ground covers. These fresh options prove that you can have a beautiful yard without growing a single blade of grass. If that sounds right up your alley, check out these 10 no-mow alternatives to a grass lawn.
Create an amazing garden without tilling - see how to create the perfect, weed free no till garden this year with ease!
Colorado has some of the most unique weather in the country. Pine Daisy House sits on the south side of a high altitude sloping ridge at 7300 feet of elevation. We average about 9 feet of snow each season with a garden zone of 4b/5a. We live on an almost completely treed lot with little areas that get full sun. After years of talking about it, Mr. PDH and I are going to attempt a kitchen garden. I have scoured the internet, instagram, and facebook for help and ideas. I have found some great resources and I’ve loved sitting snuggled under the blanket with a hot drink, dreaming and making plans! Update: You can read more about our gardening journey, here, here , here, and here. Colorado Garden Plan The bulk of our plan centers around maximizing the area we have that is exposed to our great Colorado sunshine. We plan to either purchase or build two elevated raised beds (think raised bed on stilts) and some large containers to place in two areas. They’ll be placed on two large decks, one is south facing and the other west facing. One bed will go on the full sun deck with a couple barrels, and the other will go on the west facing for the partial sun. Colorado and Mother Nature With frost dates that are essentially June 1-October 1 we need to trick mother nature. Enter PVC pipe, and opaque garden plastic. We’ll build two low tunnels (or hoop houses) fitted to the elevated beds. We aren’t sure if we’ll mount them to wood frames with a hinge or secure them to the top of the beds somehow. Our teenager is our epic problem solver, so I may just buy him the supplies and say, “Go for it!” Seeds will be started inside toward the end of March and with the help of the tunnel we hope to put things in the ground by mid May. Confirming this information is my current topic of research. So if you have any definitive information please let me know in the comments! Colorado Pine Trees and Soil There are too many trees to count on our acre of forest so I’m not going to attempt to amend the soil. I’ve spent the last three summers working in vain to grow some ground cover and ornamental flowers to no affect. The pine tree needles can be acidic to the soil and the tree roots tend to drain out the nutrients. The elevated bed idea allows us to accomplish two things. First, we can totally control our soil and move or cover it to prevent tree foliage from interfering with its content. Next, raising the bed off the ground will give us the chance to warm up the soil quicker for early spring planting. My Colorado Kitchen Garden Plan Mr. PDH and I went back and forth and ultimately decided that we need to start simple and small this year. We are already biting off a chunk as we are creating two completely separate watering spaces to manage. Like most of our state, we consistently have watering limitations placed on our area each summer. Conserving water, and maximizing the rain we do get will be very important. One leafy green, one or two herbs, four veggies, one or two legumes, one berry, and one melon are currently on the plan. The expense of the beds, barrels, soil, hoses, drip systems, low tunnels, and then the actual seeds and plants themselves, will be enough for our pocketbooks to handle. Two of my co-workers are excellent local gardeners, we might seed swap with a neighbor, and we’ve got a great nursery and garden shop a few miles away. February is already here and it’s so much fun researching and learning how to tackle this gardening project. Colorado is beautiful, rugged and majestic. I love it and wouldn’t trade where we live for anything. The winter of 2018 has been full of fun anticipation with what the year holds. Follow Pine Daisy House on instagram for daily updates about the goings on at home and in the garden. SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave SaveSave
A London-based decorating duo brought their quintessentially English point of view Stateside for this complete overhaul
In this blog post, we will showcase 7 stunning designs that will help you transform your Colorado backyard into a beautiful oasis.
Step into the wonderland of Colorado Springs' Garden of the Gods, where Mother Nature herself is the ultimate artist! An hour away from Denver, this enchanting haven invites you to wander through its trails, offering spectacular views of Pikes Peak. Whether you fancy a casual stroll through the Inne
"Autumn Finery" Pikes Peak shines in the distance, framed by the autumn colors appearing on the Niobrara ridge, on the east side of Garden of the Gods Park, between the park and Rock Ledge Ranch. Click here to contact Laura about this and other paintings Laura Reilly Website Laura Reilly Fine Art Gallery and Studio Facebook Page Laura Reilly VIP Studio Updates Click Here! for Laura Reilly Acrylic Painting Classes and Workshops!
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A wonderful garden perennial and by far our favorite mum for fall. Much more informal and relaxed in habit and flower form it puts on a stellar show for months in autumn. Soft, copper pink single flowers radiate from a soft yellow center. A bushy perennial to 28″ x 28″ in full sun to light […]
Thinking of visiting Garden of the Gods with kids? Don't miss this family friendly guide to one of Colorado's most epic places. Garden of the Gods Park, rightfully so, makes every list of must see
