Author: By Susan Flynn Colorado Master Gardener
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Year-round gardening: Alternatives to Kentucky bluegrass for Colorado lawns
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series about replacing a lawn with lower-water alternatives. So, you’ve removed part or all of your thirsty Kentucky bluegrass lawn and need to replace it with something else … but what? Maybe you’ve removed the turf on a slope or grass in a parking strip or…
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Year-round gardening: Replacing your lawn, Part 1
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about replacing a lawn with lower- water alternatives. The amount of water needed to maintain a Kentucky bluegrass lawn in Colorado (and the associated cost) is enough to give any homeowner pause — and might cause many to reimagine their landscape with a smaller lawn,…
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Year-Round Gardening: Dealing with deer is ongoing challenge
Outsmarting the deer that love to eat our plants and damage our trees is one of our many gardening challenges in Colorado. Many strategies exist for discouraging deer, but no one solution will work for every homeowner. Gardeners might have to try different options to find the optimum strategy for deterring deer in their landscape.…