Digging

July 07, 2026

A pocket-sized garden with flowery exuberance was my next stop on the Denver Open Days Tour in June, sponsored by the Garden Conservancy. Arms uplifted in joy, a metal godde...

July 05, 2026

Last month, five Denver-area gardens were open to the public during an Open Day sponsored by the Garden Conservancy. Five more garden tours — yippee, I’m in!

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July 04, 2026

The park in my Denver neighborhood is named in honor of George Washington (its naming in 1899 commemorated the 100th anniversary of Washington’s death), and within the park is the Mount Vernon Garden. What better day than the 250th birthday of America to share a stroll around the garden?

Under a sunset sky earlier this week, the meadow garden ...

June 26, 2026

Last week Heidi Harris, aka Denver Dry Garden, invited me over for a morning garden visit, and it was all so pretty that I took a million photos. Her garden was inspired by the late

June 23, 2026

The final garden from the Pueblo Open Days Tour two weeks ago was the Midway Xeric Garden. As soon as I drove into “The Blocks” neighborhood in historic Pueblo, I knew this would be my favorite kind of garden — an artist’s garden.

One of ...