Are you noticing a plethora of butterflies visiting your garden, or out and about on the trails? Lately, my garden and my neighborhood in Longmont are alive with these fluttering pollinators and nectar-gatherers. Suddenly there are Monarch butterflies (one at a time) in my yard, as well as at least seven or eight other delightful species, some of them in good numbers, and some I’ve never found or noticed before. Yesterday I sighted my first Common Buckeye, a species that uses clever camouflage tactics to hide in [Read More]
Water-Wise Plants for a No-Water Garden
In our 35 years of experience gardening on our two-acre property in the rocky short-grass prairie in far-north Boulder, CO, we have found the plants listed here to grow successfully without supplemental watering once established. The early years of the gardens were blessed with more natural precipitation than we are experiencing now. Some plantings receive more attention than others, but these plants have all managed without irrigation for long [Read More]
