After the Hail
How to Recover Your Garden After a Storm by Sandy Swegel “Gardening in Colorado sucks” is how my friend described her garden after a violent storm full of hail and tornadoes passed through the towns east of Boulder this week. Much more vivid expletives were used by all as we surveyed the destruction brought by […]
Stalking the Wild Monarch
Plant Milkweed Now by Sandy Swegel It’s Show and Tell time. It’s time to take the kids or some curious adults outside and prove your superior knowledge of the ways of nature and introduce them to butterfly eggs. It’s been a good milkweed year in the wild this year. Lots of spring rains followed by […]
Help! I’ve been Invaded by Japanese Beetles!
How Do I Get Rid of This Terrible Pest? by Sandy Swegel I was so late writing my blog post this morning because I foolishly strolled out into the rose garden, where everything was delightfully dewy and fresh from rains last night. I thought I would deadhead a few late season roses that looked spent. […]