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Garden Notes This week's star native is Bee Balm (aka Wild Bergamot). This fragrant perennial comes in lots of colors, has spikey flower...

Blanketflower First, a Garden Note This week's star native is Gaillardia, known to her friends as Blanketflower. She loves full sun and ...

  Fiona, the sentry guard dragon Last year, I spent my gardening budget on installing the native garden, the plants and all the fixin's,...

Garden Notes This week's star native is evening primrose. The particular species I planted last year is  Oenothera howardii ( Howard...

  My new Colorado native flower garden is officially done except for the bare area where I'll be scattering seeds in the fall. This proj...

Wow, it's been almost two weeks since my last post. Time flies when you are planting seeds, watering seedlings, trimming overgrown dogwo...