Willows in fall color on Mount Goliath
Tricked you! You were expecting aspen, weren’t you? Well…there is a lot more gold than just aspen in our mountains and also in our gardens this autumn.
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Callirhoe involucrata - Winecups
When you are buying plants for your garden this spring, consider adding a few natives to your garden.
Native plants typically provide habitat and food for more wildlife than non-natives adding to biodiversity. In an urban environment where wild places are fast disappearing every little piece of native habitat helps.
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Dryland Mesa in bloom
Prickly pear cacti blooming in Dryland Mesa
Early mornings in the gardens are definitely peaceful and cool, however some gardens, like some people, are not at their best until well after lunchtime. The south end of Dryland Mesa is currently one of these gardens and the cacti flowers, which are at their peak right now, are definitely late risers, refusing to open until the sun is at its fullest.
Admittedly an early morning visit does have the reward of the intense chocolate aroma of the Berlandiera lyrata (chocolate flowers). The closed Eschscholzia californica (California poppies) have a certain charm too, it is fascinating to watch them open as the sun falls on them. By mid-afternoon though everyone has stretched and opened
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