Think before you ‘clean up’. DON’T BE TEMPTED TO CLEAN EVERYTHING UP! It’s important to leave many of those leaves and plants alone to support our beneficial insects, birds, and soils. It might be the most sustainable thing you can do this season! With pruners in hand, I recently approached a cluster of very large fennel plants loaded with thousands of ripe seeds, intending to cut all of the branches off before the seeds fell. [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]