Colorado Yard Care
Helping you create a more beautiful, functional and sustainable yard along Colorado's Front Range
Now that spring is here (sort of), you may be wondering what you should do to care for your yard with the impending major snowstorm this weekend. Here are my top four tips for what to do and to leave for later. Knock the snow off the branches of your trees and shrubs periodically. This […]
If you’re thinking about adding a tree to your landscape this year, I’d like to share a recording of a webinar I gave yesterday called Planting Trees for Future Generations. It covers how to choose a tree with proven success, how to plant using smart techniques and how to care for your tree long term. […]
With spring right around the corner, it’s a good idea to start thinking about your landscape again. Trust me, it’s not too early. The warm weather will be here before you know it! To help you decide where to start, I made a video where I talk about the yard care tasks to complete during […]
By the time November rolls around, I’ve usually put my gardening tools away for the year. Colorado weather will always keep you guessing! I was having a conversation with an acquaintance the other day when he told me he just bought a new house. As I was congratulating him, he revealed that he had no […]
If you’re still wearing sandals and shorts, you know the weather has been warmer than usual. Both September and October were four to five degrees higher than average. Yikes! That may be great for those of you who lament summer’s departure, but your landscape plants still think it’s late August. In a normal year, most […]
Spring snow is full of moisture. That’s good news for winter-dehydrated landscape plants, but can cause problems for our trees and shrubs. During late spring snow storms, the wet flakes cling to branches, causing them to bow under the weight. Sometimes branches will bend outward from the plant’s center. But if enough heavy snow accumulates, […]
The storm arrived as predicted. It’s not supposed to get super cold tonight, but the forecast is saying we’ll get up to a foot of snow. Yikes! With so much snow a real possibility, you might want to read a post I wrote on protecting trees and shrubs during heavy spring snow storms. Spring snow […]
If you ignore Grand Junction and La Junta, most of Colorado normally experiences the first frost of fall sometime in late September or October. And yet, it’s October 27 and there hasn’t been a fall frost. Weird. Colorado is definitely unpredictable. So what does this extended fall mean to our landscape plants? Here’s a short […]
It’s a great time of year to plant a tree. If the tree planting is on your list of things to do this summer, be sure to channel some of your enthusiasm towards caring for your new tree after it’s planted. If you’re planting a tree in a lawn area, it’s really important to install […]
My house got pummeled by hail not once, but twice, within the past two days. Sheesh. Talk about incredible to watch and disheartening to deal with. If the same thing happened to you, you might be interested in the post I wrote last year about dealing with hail damage in the landscape. It might be […]
With the big snowstorm on the horizon this weekend, you may be wondering how to best protect your landscape. My answer basic answer is 1) be proactive about a few things, 2) don’t worry too much about most plants and 3) be thankful for the moisture. There are two big factors with spring snowstorms: snow […]