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Waterwise Learning Center
With waterwise plants, or drought-tolerant and xeric plants, your garden can do more than just survive dry conditions - it can thrive. You can turn to High Country Gardens for inspiration and ideas, helpful planning and planting guides, and learning how to choose beautiful waterwise plants for your sustainable yard transformation.
Clean, Prune, Divide: Easy Tips For Habitat-Fri...
By David Salman, High Country Gardens Founder and Chief Horticulturist Every gardener counts down the days until they can get into the garden for spring. Here are some spring clean-up...
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Fall Garden Cleanup: Prune This, Not That
Maintaining Our Gardens To Maximize Their Value As Habitat By David Salman, Founder of High Country Gardens Fall is well underway and many of us are focused on getting our...
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Habitat For Bumblebees & Top Pollinator Plants ...
By David Salman, High Country Gardens Chief Horticulturist For me, no other insect so readily brings a smile to my face than to watch a busy bumblebee buzzing around the...
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Easy Gardening: Top 4 Tricks of the Trade
 This rock garden uses gravel mulch to make gardening simpler. by David Salman, High Country Gardens Chief Horticulturalist Conservation of Energy: Ideas for a More Beautiful and Labor Efficient...
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Inspired Gardens: Growing A Thyme Lawn
Tips For How To Grow A Thyme Lawn From Gardeners In Albuquerque, NM When Vic and Barb Bruno built their new home in the year 2000 they were city dwellers,...
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Colors of Nature at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildf...
by High Country Gardens Texas bluebonnets and other wildflowers carpet the Wildflower Center's meadows in springtime. Texas bluebonnets, teeth-achingly blue, pool in grassy meadows studded with sword-leaved yuccas and pincushion...
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Keeping Your Landscape Healthy In The Heat
By David Salman, High Country Gardens Founder and Chief Horticulturist For much of the US, the summer heat has arrived. But not to worry - many plants are well equipped...
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Habitat Gardening With A Pond In Colorado
A Q & A With Larry G. about his wildscape in Fort Collins, CO By Wendy Hatoum, staff writer for High Country Gardens Q: What makes your wildscape special? The...
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Boulder Yard Transformed Into A Habitat Hero Wi...
The front and back yards of this Boulder, CO home were transformed from lifeless, flat, brown spaces into lush, colorful flowering gardens using native perennials and drought resistant plants. The...
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Creating Living Landscapes: The Importance Of N...
By Ray The Gnome. A Summary of the Habitat Hero Presentation given by Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware Professor of Entomology, at the Denver Botanic Garden. Groundbreaking research by Professor...
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Creating a Water-Thrifty Cottage Garden in Reno
Exploring Xeric Garden Designer Tova Roseman's Reno, NV Garden Tova Roseman's old-style cottage garden How would you describe your garden? It’s a cottage garden in the old style, where the...
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Customer Garden: A Drought-Resistant Garden Fro...
By Wendy Hatoum, Staff Writer for High Country Gardens When Mary R. moved to her new home in Fort Collins, Colorado, she was so committed to not having a lawn...
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