16 Jul 2019

Steppe garden, foxtail lilies, and sculpture at Denver Botanic Gardens: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling

All 80+ bloggers had lunch under a pavilion at Denver Botanic Gardens on Day 3 of the Denver Garden Bloggers Fling (June 2019), and then we were set loose for about an hour. One hour is not enough time to see DBG, of course. One day hardly is. Happily, this being a garden open to the public, I’d already enjoyed a lengthy visit before the Fling officially kicked off. This is part 1 of my tour, combining photos from both excursions.… Read More
15 Jul 2019

A dryland garden inspired by Mother Nature: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling

After 24 years as a radio talk show host on gardening, Jim Borland may have retired, but his Denver garden continues to broadcast loud and clear about how to garden in semi-arid eastern Colorado (15 inches of annual precipitation) without using any supplemental water. His gardening inspiration? Mother Nature. “She perfected the notion of growing a vast number of species in un-amended soils with no mulch or supplemental irrigation,” he says.… Read More
12 Jul 2019

New steel planter and meadowy sedge in my garden

This summer I installed a new custom steel planter in front of the blue stucco wall by the pool. Tina Strarup of Affinity Metalworks created it for me out of 3/16″ gauge mild steel, which will patina to a rusty hue. I planted it up with water-thrifty, heat-loving orange bulbine and a few baby Mexican feathergrasses and mulched it with fines of Texas black gravel (sold by the bag at Whittlesey Landscape Supplies), and I LOVE it.… Read More
9 Jul 2019

TatTopia garden embraces stonework and sustainability: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling

When the construction dust settled at Tatiana Maxwell’s new energy-wise home, studio, and guest house in Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, the yard was just an expanse of bare dirt. Her first thought was to build an English-style cottage garden. But after brainstorming with stonemason artist Thea Alvin of MyEarthwork and Boulder permaculturalist Marco Lam, she realized she could create something unique and much better suited to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.… Read More
30 Jun 2019

Jean Morgan’s garden will make you smile: Denver Garden Bloggers Fling

As our tour bus of 40+ bloggers arrived at the Louisville, Colorado, home of Jean Morgan, one visitor reached down to pick up a stray piece of trash in Jean’s garden. Only the crumpled Hershey bar wrapper wasn’t trash. It’s part of a cheeky vignette — Happily Dying of Chocolate, complete with chocolate daisies (Berlandiera lyrata) — tucked in her streetside garden.… Read More

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