Kintzley’s Ghost ® Vining Honeysuckle (Lonicera reticulate ‘Kintzley’s Ghost’) Vines are so useful in our landscapes. They provide coverage for fences (especially unsightly ones) and make a wonderful trellis plant to cover walls and narrow upright spaces with attractive foliage and colorful flowers. Kintzley’s Ghost is a very unusual native vine that gives us [...]
Carpeting Pincushion Flower (Pterocephalus depressus) Groundcovers are so important in the garden. They create the garden’s carpet and weave the various plants together into a more harmonious whole. They grow as a beautiful edge to flower beds, walkways and patios. They often provide both ornamental flowers and foliage to give them a very long [...]
This intriguing native plant has won me over. I’ve been growing this wildflower in my front courtyard for the past three years and in my greenhouse stock beds for even longer. I have watched it transform from gawky youngsters to mature beauties. This year, in spite of our grueling summer heat and drought, my three [...]
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I finished up my keynote talk before the Kansas State Advanced Master Gardener Training this morning in Manhattan, KS. As always, Master Gardeners are a great group of very interested, committed gardeners. And here I am in the middle of the Great Plains, with some time on my hands. As it so happens, I love [...]
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Plant needs are different now than in the spring and summer. In the fall, with all their energy going to the roots, plants don’t want food that stimulates the upper growth. High Country Gardens is a strong advocate of using natural and organic fertilizers to ‘feed the soil’ which in turn converts nutrients into usable [...]
I am re-running this article because the story continued with this amazing plant.  Agastache ‘Blue Blazes’ became a national sensation after it launched in the 2011 Spring catalog. It launched on he cover of our Collectors Edition.  It then caught national attention because this Agastache can feed Hummingbirds, Butterflies and Bees. Read original post here. Share on Facebook
Now that it’s officially summer, and the heat has arrived, we’re all looking for ways to stay cool. Well your garden plants are feeling the same way. And that’s where putting a blanket down can help; a blanket of mulch. Mulching is a well practiced gardening technique of covering the soil with some type of [...]
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It’s been a long snowy winter in northern New Mexico. By mid-January, the El Nino had developed in earnest and the storms started tracking south across the southern CA, AZ and New Mexico.  The abundant rain and snow has broken the drought of the past couple of years. Share on Facebook
I’ve always been a dog person and have had dogs in my life since I was a little kid. Last March 2009, Hunter, our little Cairn Terrier-Shih Tzu mix passed away after being with my family and I for nearly 17 years. The last of our pack of three dogs, he was the most resilient, [...]
2011 Dates JANUARY 22, 2011 David will be presenting: “Ornamental Grasses and Perennials: Beautiful Plantings for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies” in the City of Fort Collins, CO Undaunted Gardens event. FEBRUARY 4 & 5 David will be speaking at the Peak to Prairie Landscape Symposium. The topic for Friday 2/4 will be ‘Rock Gardening with [...]
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