The Dirt
Five Spot: A wildflower for shade and for native bees
Wildflower Seeds by Sandy Swegel I love blue flowers so naturally I am enthused about our new “Blue Blazes” collection of seeds for eight different blue wildflowers. What really caught my attention is a little flower I’ve never seen growing that now I just have to have. Nemophila maculata is white with single blue-purple spots […]
Attract Chickadees to Your Garden
All About Chickadees by Sandy Swegel Chickadees are out and about on warm winter days. They are the tiny white birds with black heads that are flittering and chirping vocally on sunny January days. I often see them in the top branches of evergreens. Chickadees are small birds that don’t migrate but hunker down in […]
Grow for Flavor
Gardening Tips by Sandy Swegel If you read just one gardening book this year, I have the perfect book for you. It’s a British gardening book and while growing conditions in merry old England aren’t anything like growing in hot arid Colorado, the advice here transcends climate. It’s about how to get the most flavor […]