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More Resources
Better Homes and Gardens
Comprehensive, interactive site that offers detailed landscape plans, gardening slide shows and regional gardening advice.
Composting 101
Watch this online video from KMGH to get the dirt on composting, and find out why you might want to consider it.
Home and Garden TV
Read all about the 7 gardening pitfalls, landscaping for dogs, the sneeze-free garden, dirt-cheap landscaping and an abundance of general information on herbs, vegetables, lawns and perennials.
Old Farmer’s Almanac
Online version of this old favorite offers frost charts, manure guide, drought tips, suggested plants for hummingbirds and butterflies and free gardening e-cards.
Kids Gardening
Check out the National Gardening Association’s Parents Primer on how to make gardening fun for every age with plants that kids love. Also features classroom projects and an online teacher’s course.
Organic Gardening Magazine Online
You can learn how and why organic gardeners don’t use artificial fertilizers or pesticides, see lots of tips for growing flowers, vegetables and herbs or find out your soil’s quality with 10 simple tests.
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Colorado Gardening
Denver Botanic Gardens
Get answers to all of your gardening questions through the Helen Fowler Library, staffed by Master Gardeners.
Plant Select
Plant Select® is a program designed to seek out and distribute the very best plants for gardens from the high plains to the intermountain region.
High-Altitude Gardner Plant Database
Search for ideal plants for your Western garden! Selected by the horticulture staff at the Botanic Gardens, this database has 300 different plants that are beautiful and have proven themselves to be hardy for our region. The high-altitude plant datatabase is under construction. Please check back with the Botanic Gardens.
Denver Urban Gardens
Visit the Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) web site and find out about gardening in one of 60 community gardens throughout the Denver area.
CSU Cooperative Extension Online
Information about taking Native Plant Master courses and becoming a certified Native Plant Master, managing conflicts with wildlife, grape growing in a high desert region, and a huge list of online gardening fact sheets.
Planttalk Colorado
(888-666-3063) is a toll-free automated phone service that provides you with reliable and timely information on xeriscape and a variety of horticultural topics. Their web site has text versions of all the phone scripts.
Xeriscape
Denver Water's Xeriscape Information
From the creators of the word “xeriscape.” Includes some basic information on xeriscape, a list of resources and a map to their demonstration gardens.
Xeriscape Colorado from the Colorado Water Wise Council
Visit a demo xeriscape garden near you, including the country’s oldest at the Denver Water Department. Also features a calendar of upcoming xeriscape seminars and workshops, many at no charge.
CSU Extension Xeriscape Information
Read up on common sense xeriscaping for small property, incorporating herbs, retrofitting your landscape to save water and sun-loving groundcovers.
Eartheasy Xeriscape
Discover the benefits of xeriscape and learn the 7 principles of drought resistant plantings. Lots of tips and recommendations for ornamental grasses, flowers, shrubs and succulents.
More Xeriscape Information
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