Enliven Your Patio / Porch

Want to create a new space, without the price of a remodel? Reviving your patio or porch can be the best idea you'll have all year. Add space, color and comfort to your lifestyle - good for 3 seasons of the year (and some sunny days mid-winter) - while adding value to your property. 

Polishing up your patio or porch can be as simple as adding a collection of lovely planters. Start with differing heights, colors or styles, and deck them out with stunning annuals, soft grasses or varying colorful arrangements. Artfully placing fragrant bushes, or small trees around the perimeter of a ground floor space can also instantly transform it into something personal, while adding a bit of privacy. 

Got a fence you want to hide? Plant delicate Clematis together with yummy Honeysuckle for a boisterous visual and sensory display. Want to see a bit of green during the winter months? Varieties of mini evergreen bushes in various shades will blend in yet keep color strong and light during the snowy season.

Create An Inviting Entrance

We all want our home to be welcoming upon arrival, whether coming home from work, a trip, or when we're hosting guests. A beautiful garden at the entrance says "Welcome" more than words!

Your eyes delight at seeing snowy white and yellow blossoms waving between young Aspens and an abundant display of colorful perennials; You are instantly drawn up the path leading to a warmly lit doorway. Every home has a unique architectural style and a setting that determines it's landscape too. Home and gardens not only compliment each other, but they can function together as well, such as keeping you cool in the summer. Some of you will know exactly what you envision when designing a garden around a particular structure. If you can't decide, we'll help you find your style.

Make A Statement With Succulents

Colorado's semi-arid environment is perfect for xeriscaping - using native varieties of plants that require less water. Succulents are a perfect fit. They're gorgeous, colorful, and there are plenty to choose from that are hardy as all get out. They make a great standalone Feature, or they can compliment any garden, blending in amongst the perennials. Because succulents store water in their leaves, they are among the easiest additions to take care of.

Celebrate Nature's Wonders

Half the beauty of a garden is in its flora... and the other half is definitely due to its pollinators, those amazing living things that make much of our blooming and edible plant life possible. Butterflies, bumble bees, honey bees, moths and wasps, and hummingbirds are the most well known. We owe so much to pollinators. Here are the best things you can do to help them:

• Choose plants that flower at different times of the year to provide nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season
• Plant in clumps, rather than single plants, to better attract pollinators
• Provide a variety of flower colors and shapes to attract different pollinators.
• Whenever possible, choose native plants. Native plants will attract more native pollinators who will be able to reproduce and support a healthy eco-system balance
• Avoid purchasing flowers from distributors known to use chemicals and pesticides on their stock, such as Home Depot, or Lowes. Chemicals and insecticides critically harm the immune system of pollinators, contributing to the collapse of their local eco system, which in turn directly affects us.

Step Out In Style

One of the most inventive ways to spice up your garden is by using border flowers - like trailing bells or creeping phlox - that find a home in natural stone crevices and cascade in lush tresses. Blue rock cress or flowering thyme can peek through flagstone creating a beautiful and inviting walkway. A functional birdbath will transform your garden into a favorite locale for feathery friends -  and an opportunity to take great pictures. Add night lights and you'll put on quite a show!

Let Your Garden Path Lead You On

We can see in gardens so many different things... and meanings. What do you see in yours? The best gardens are the ones so inviting that we want to spend time in them. In today's digital culture that may take a shift of attention at the end of the day, but the truth is we are in need of healthy opportunities to let earth's natural energies help ground and support our own. Being in your garden will not only help calm your mind, but will bring you physical health and integration as well. So make it a point to let your garden path "lead you on" and discover where it takes you!