Choosing Plants For Colorado Colorado is known for its beautiful landscape. However, high elevations, huge temperature swings, intense sun and wind, and increasingly common droughts can create challenging growing conditions. We specialize in cold-hardy, drought tolerant plants that will thrive in Colora...
A simple step to lessen water usage in your landscaping design is to select drought-tolerant plants. These plants use less water, while still providing beauty and function in the landscape. City Floral Garden Center has put together a list of drought-tolerant perennials, trees, and shrubs ...
Most of the soil pH in Colorado’s Front Range are alkaline, so it is possible that this increase in pH will have little or no effect on plants that are already suited or adapted to the native soils of our area. But for plants that don’t do well in alkaline soils, will this more ...
Growth for all three species was far more sensitive to winter than to summer drought. The primary reason was that plants did not grow in summer and also did not appear to use summer-assimilated carbon to support growth in the following spring. We hypothesize that the relative scarcity and ...
Moab MOAB is the Colorado Plateau field site, in southeastern Utah. At 1,770 m (5,800 feet), this is a high desert ecosystem featuring drought-tolerant grasses and shrub-scrub habitat. Pinyon pine and juniper are found at higher elevations. Dramatic sandstone formations punctuate the landscape...
A sustainable bioenergy industry will require drought tolerant, high-residue crops that are well adapted to semi-arid areas and can act as feedstocks for bioenergy production. Sweet pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) was grown at four locations in Northern Colorado under dryland conditions to identify...
“We love the design. Raymundo really listened to our needs and wants. The plants were larger than I expected. The flagstone walk is my favorite part. The total effect was just what we wanted.” Accent Landscapes Hardscaping Contractors in Colorado Springs ...
Choosing Plants For Colorado Colorado is known for its beautiful landscape. However, high elevations, huge temperature swings, intense sun and wind, and increasingly common droughts can create challenging growing conditions. We specialize in cold-hardy, drought tolerant plants that will thrive in Colora...