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Sunday, April 28, 2019

Pollinator of the Week: Rufous Hummingbird

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< Rufous Hummingbird, photo courtesy Pollinator Partnership This article is excerpted from The Rufous Hummingbird: Small But Feist...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Easter Lily Lore and Care by Carol King

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Photo Tufts University It’s Easter time and the ubiquitous Easter Lily is every where.  Did you ever wonder why we purchase these flower...

Earth Day is Wednesday, April 22! by Audrey Stokes

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Each year, Earth Day marks the anniversary of what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement which began in 1970. ...

Pollinator of the Week: The Colorado State Insect!

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Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly, photo courtesy statesymbolsusa.org Did you know that Colorado has a state insect? The Colorado Hairstr...
Sunday, April 14, 2019

Pollinator of the Week: Hawk (Sphinx) Moth

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A giant hawk moth ( Eumorpha typhon ) adult. Image by Alfred University artist Joseph Scheer. This information is excerpted from an ar...
Thursday, April 11, 2019

Get A Head Start on Yellowjacket Control by Carol King

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Yellowjacket photo by Whitney Cranshaw I noticed wasps are waking up from their winter naps, which made me think of that old meanie, th...
Monday, April 8, 2019

Japanese Beetles in Colorado by Joyce D'Agostino

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Photo courtesy colorado.gov As gardeners, we often struggle with the unwelcome visitors to our garden, whether it be a disease, an inva...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Coffee Grounds and Gardening

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Coffee grounds are a great addition to the garden and compost pile. Help to recycle this great organic resource and reduce the amount...
Monday, April 1, 2019

April Fools’ Day Garden Hoaxes

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Photo courtesy hoaxes.org From the early 1900s to the present, gardeners have swapped April Fools hoaxes and photos. It just goes to sh...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Colorado's Native Bees

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 Leaf-cutting bee,  Megachile fidelis, photo courtesy CSU Extension The following information on native bees is provided by The Bees ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Bumble Bee Identification Guide for Colorado

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Bombus variabilis, Colorado's rarest bumble bee Bumble bees have long fascinated humankind, at least since Carl Linneaus d...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

The Benefits of Core Aeration

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Photo courtesy johnson.k-state.edu Aeration, or core cultivation, is standard lawn care. Aerating a lawn means supplying the soil wit...