“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.” — Helen Hunt Jackson In 1875, Helen Hunt married William Jackson of Colorado Springs and made Colorado her home. Surely, they had our shared experiences of September days being noticeably shorter, with cooler nights and pleasant daytime weather. I wonder what …
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SUPERIOR — The Scenery and Home Landscape pilot program is taking root in four yards in the city. Crews with Missinne Greenhouse and Landscaping descended on each of the homes selected. They dug; planted new trees and shrubs; sheered arborvitaes, hedges and vines; and laid mulch and river rock to create new landscapes in the front yards of homes along …
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Immediately after I completed my horticultural training back in the mid-1970s, I took a job restoring, as best I could, a beautiful old estate on the Palisade cliffs of the Hudson River. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the successor to the firm founded by the co-designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, it had once been a showplace, …
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Are you looking for color, variety and texture in your landscape? Adding wildflowers might be the solution as an eye-catching niche garden or an expansive pollinator meadow. A wildflower meadow — a blend of wildflower varieties with native grasses such as Switchgrass, Side Oats Grama and Little Bluestem — benefits bees, insects and wildlife with food and habitat. It is …
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