Are you looking for information on gardening in the unique soils and climate of the Centennial State? My channel is devoted to tips on landscape gardening in this wonderful place we call home.
I am a Colorado Master Gardener located in Castle Rock in the fabulous Colorado Front Range.
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I feel like chocolate mint is probably better used in a dessert than a mojito haha. But perhaps using spearmint for the muddling and the chocolate mint as the aromatic garnish would work better? Would love to see the best basil for pesto or the best tomato for gazpacho 😊
Great ideas!
Happy Hour Gardening 😂
Cheers!
Yes to spearmint!!!!
Yum!
Years ago when I was a much younger gardener I planted a small pot of chocolate mint in a very troublesome spot on our childcare playground. The other teachers throughout the years have not appreciated the endless supply of mint.😬 The idea was to allow the children the sensory experience as they walk on it and cut and pull on it and even eat it. It makes for great pretend play tea parties on hot summer days in the water table. We have also used it in a big container of ice cold water and cucumbers for the teachers. It was officially named “Unicorn Breath” this year as I taught the children that it is the antidote to the “Dragon Breath” (chives) that some of the children LOVE to sit in and eat! The rabbits at Red Rocks Community College don’t seem to ever bother the mint. Interestingly, my new little rescue dog loves to eat mint! I planted some in a pot in my porch garden and the grasshoppers devoured it! We got chickens two weeks ago and happily the mint is already making a comeback!
That's a great story. I like the idea of using chocolate mint in a water jug with cucumber.
I admire your commit-mint to finding the best mojito!
That's a terrible pun. I love it!
"I like white rum." LOL
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We are going to plant a Colorado Blue Spruce in memory of our daughter who died two years ago.
What a great memorial. I'm sorry for your loss.
Nice! I bet the bees and other pollinators love it! I have some lavender in my vegetable garden and try to keep some other flowers too!
Bees really like lavender. Thanks for watching.
Dont wash that way no soap just vinigar,soap leaves film,and always boil wtr first when filling.
Your comment is based on a premise that I don't agree with: things that are safe for humans will harm hummingbirds. Dishwashing soap is safe for humans and hummingbirds. Tap water is safe for humans and hummingbirds. Thanks for watching.
My evergreens went brown and died off, I have 3 aspens that are doing great on the front range, I love them. You do have to prune off excess tree stems (2 or 3 max provide mutual support against wind). I water mine and have to rake up the leaves in the fall but there are few things as lovely as the twinkling aspen leaves in a gentle breeze. Don’t believe everything you hear on the internet.
Very beautiful ❤❤
Wow super very beautiful flowers ❤❤❤❤ new subscriber ❤❤❤❤
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I ordered 3 saplings online. When they arrived I did a bit more research,and found out they would be a disaster for my 'front range'. Your video sums it up perfectly! I sent them straight back the same day! Great for the wild,not for the garden.
I'm glad that I could save you from a disaster. Thanks for watching.
@@FrontRangeGardener 🙂👍
Any tips on grasshoppers? we're a little overrun at our place.
Can you keep ducks? Thanks for watching!
Omg! Soo beautiful
Thanks!
We have a blue spruce in our back yard that's 40 ft tall and still growing. Live at 6200 ft in Castle Rock.
Those are beautiful trees. Thanks for watching, neighbor!
Another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Informative video…but did you really make THAT your thumbnail? 😂
KZread does not let me choose a thumbnail for Shorts. Thanks for watching!
It’s funny that you seem to have named all of the trees that I see growing around Peyton!😂
Ha! Thanks for watching.
i really enjoyed the video. thanks for the information, living in colorado springs, i find it hard to consistently get my perennials to come back each year depending on when i planted them. going to try to get some good evergreen in this year so its not all sticks this year.
Good luck and thanks for watching!
Do you find that trees fare better in Colorado if planted now in the spring or in the fall?
Great question. I plant most of my trees in fall. The soil is still warm enough for the roots to establish before winter cold. Best of all, trees are usually on sale in September and October. However, I would not hesitate to plant in May or early June.
@@FrontRangeGardener Thanks!
All good suggestions with wildfire season upon us.
And hail season
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The majority of the video is good...with one glaring exception that I can, personally, attest to: The MALE cottonwood trees are the ones that send out that awful cottony mess! The FEMALE cottonwood trees create these long, very sticky, flowers that are sorta like very soft & stringy pinecones. In fact: the reason why so many people have been experiencing worsening allergies is because there was a campaign to plant a majority of male trees, of all types, for this very reason! FEMALE trees, generally, have some sort of sticky sap or flowers designed to catch the wind blown pollen from male trees. This sticky "mess" was considered undesirable and the male trees were planted as an alternative...because they were considerably "cleaner". (Source: proudly owned a female cottonwood for over a decade, until it contracted that cottonwood disease that has killed off so very many of them in the front range.)
Thanks for the correction.
I laughed out loud at the Mrs. Colorado Gardner list callout so let’s see hers
Mrs. Front Range Gardener's list is: Gambel Oak, Gambel Oak, Gambel Oak and Gambel Oak.
Oh my heavens, I dont know where to begin. Please don't listen to this to this guy, so much bad misinformation with a serious lack of context. 😵😵😵
You can begin with examples. My context is landscape gardening. Thanks for watching.
Insufferable. The invasive species is ... look in a mirror.
True, I am not a native.
I had a fire go through my property and the Rocky Mountain junipers were badly burned but mostly survived UNLIKE the other 700 trees I had planted from the forest service seedling program.
Those Junipers are tougher than I thought.
We went today. I totally had no idea how big this place really is. Wear your comfy shoes and pack water and a snack!
So cool!
Do you have any resources or a video on native shrubs especially for hedges? I would like to try and do a privacy type hedge but really want to keep them native as much as possible.
I made a video on native shrubs for Fall color. Regent Serviceberry or red-twig dogwood might work for a hedge. It's not my landscaping style, so more research is needed. kzread.info/dash/bejne/daeFzdxwqMnUoJc.html
@@FrontRangeGardener thank you so much
Aphids LOVE aspen. If you want your cars to have a beautiful red coating of (impossible to remove) aphid poop, just plant an aspen in your yard.😧
My last Aspen is being cut down right now!
by the way, aspens send up shoots vigorously - kind of hard when mowing
Wow, do they ever. I'm getting rid of my last aspens this weekend!
Next door neighbor planted aspens along their back yard fence - all the way! and some in their front yard. Hoo boy in 10 years... learned that at my old digs years ago.
Going to regret that
Take all the fallen leaves you think are a problem and make compost.
Stop acting so gay
I appreciate all of my viewers.
Plant Russian Olives. They are an invasive species similar to European colonists, ugly and unwanted.
Your racism lost the war
@@TaxEvasion777 the war against Russian Olives? Ok then
@@lukewarmwater9185 “similar to European colonists, ugly and unwanted” you lost lol. Get conquered
Do you think they would do ok in southern Wisconsin? I love these trees and want one in my yard. Thanks!
I really don't know the conditions in Wisconsin
The juniper trees have grown on me over the years
They look great in the right landscape. Thanks for watching.
I have a scrub oak in my south facing front yard. It's been there for about 10 years and it's about 20 feet tall and bushy. It sits on a section where the driveway meets the sidewalk and is always hot in the summer. Mulch around it and never has had a lot of off shoots. Dark green leaves all summer. Resilient to heat and early and late snow. Great tree/bush. In wilder areas I've seen them grow in thickets that are attractive from a distance but a mess to deal with. I've found the fall color to be hit or miss depending on the weather. I like the Junipers look as well, but I've seen a lot of split trunks and broken branches from snow. Then they grow in all sorts of directions.
Great points. Thanks for watching.
All trees have landscape care concerns. Unless you zero scape, manage your yard with an irrigation system, or pay a professional, Aspens are a viable option for natural shade and moisture retention in your yard. They attract bumble bees and their shoots potentially create even more shade. The weaker shoots in the system die off like the limbs of a tree, but the parent will live just as long as other trees if it remains the primary. You just cut the dead shoots like you would cut off a dead tree limb and then dried Aspen wood is easy to split with an axe. Most people consider the Poplar Twiggal Fly the most unattractive aspect of Aspens, even though they do not harm the tree. There is a homemade pest spray that works well on Aspens. If you don't want an all volunteer grove of Aspens (your neighbors may not), then clearly you prefer to pay to strategically place another variety such as Maple, Birch, or Pine in that spot. For these, you just pound some tree fertilizer stakes in the ground and keep them watered. They will also survive the Colorado sun, hot dry spells, hail, and cold snaps that get the better of other trees in Colorado.
Blue spruce requires too much water. When I bought my house there were several scattered throughout the Ponderosa. I didn’t water them for a couple of years with high rainfall and they all died. They don’t provide enough food for wildlife. Pretty, but too high maintenance.
True, Colorado Blue Spruce and Concolor Fir do need more water than ponderosa pine and pinyon pine. Thanks for watching.
A mound of mulch might change that but there’s so many fruit trees you could grow in the same place with less water
The oaks on my property provide food for the squirrels and turkeys. Doe hide their fawns in the thickets. They provide a great privacy screen. I love the oaks. Otherwise than that, I completely agree with your list.
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As a former landscaper I agree with you. It always depends on the placement. All trees are good, when planted in the right environment. A Catalpa planted in the middle of a half acre opening is a wonderful thing. Planted within 50 feet of a structure, nope.
I happened upon you and find you videos very helpful. I have a blue spruce that is ailing from needle drop over and above the normal drop. I want to deep root water it, but I don't know how long to water for using this tool. Can you give me some guidance? I live in Colorado Springs.
Most roots are found in the top foot of soil. A generous surface watering should be sufficient. I don't use a deep watering tool in my landscape. I thought the Front Range got a good amount of precipitation in the last three months.
Great video. Do you offer landscaping services? We live in Lone Tree.
Thanks for watching. I don't offer landscaping services, but I'm flattered that you asked.
Great video! Re: Lilies - you don’t have any kitties in the neighborhood, do you? Unfortunately, they’re extremely poisonous to our feline friends. Even the tiniest bit of pollen on their fur can lead to organ failure. :( Otherwise, thank you for guiding Coloradans in our gardening journey! We love your videos, and can’t wait to see more.
I don't have any pets. Good tip on the lilies.
According to entomologyst Doug Tallamy, the gambel oak is a top host of caterpillars. which are the exclusive diet of most bird babies: no caterpillars=no birds!
I agree that the gambel oak is an important part of the natural ecosystem. I just think they make poor landscape trees. Thanks for watching.
You’ve been a wealth of information for this first time home owner and now happy outdoor gardener. Thank you!
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Thank you for these month by month what to dos. It is exactly what this first time Colorado gardener needs.
I'm glad you like them.
I appreciate the videos, it looks like your gardens will be quite amazing here in a couple weeks!! They already do look good.
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