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I love my xeric front yard. What I love most about it is that I can pretty much ignore it most of the time and it still looks pretty good. During the summer, I might wander out there every 2-3 weeks and weed. This year, we had so much rain here in the Denver metro [...]
Scenario: The year 2209. (Perhaps a Tuesday?) An intrepid archeologist digging in an American garbage landfill comes upon thousands of preserved plastic baggies of……doggie do? “Boy,” he says, “people in those days saved the damnest things.” Anybody with a dog has probably considered the question of what to do with all of their pet’s “output.” [...]
My sister came to visit last weekend and we did one of our favorite things. We went plant shopping at Echter’s in Arvada, CO. I love Echter’s! Three years ago, I didn’t know the difference between an annual and a perennial. Today I go to a garden center and want to take home one [...]
It’s time for my annual gardening ritual: The clearing of the rubble. I love clearing the old dead stuff out of the garden to see the new plants peeking up out of the dirt. I’m not so crazy about the resulting backache from doing this for an entire morning, but that kind of goes with [...]
When one thinks of the most dreaded plant on the face of Earth, poison ivy may come to mind. It does with me. I am highly allergic to it. Even burning poison ivy could be a very bad thing for me. Years ago, my paternal grandmother ended up in the hospital because of poison [...]
