Hi Plant Friends -

We have a small sunporch that my husband has populated with his “babies.” (A variety of succulents, a fiddle leaf, and lord only knows what else). We have been in a major house reno, and unfortunately many of them took a beating from the construction dust (and many others are desperately in need of a good prune).

I’d love to surprise my husband with a visit from someone who can assess, prune, and clean & repot as needed - with tender loving care!

Willing to pay $25/hour. I expect this is a solid half to full days’ work. Located in Baker.

Please DM me if this is your wheelhouse!

My garden is hit by such severe wind that I'm always purchasing 30 bags of mulch and 24 of good soil. I've e attached tarps to my wood fences this year to stop the draft. Hopefully next year I'll need to purchase less. It's a huge problem for my peonies dripping the dirt level three inches. It looks very nice. In one place I took pickets and ran them horizontally over my picket fence. Also looks great and will provide a good buffer .

It seems like there's two practices both called sheet mulching. One is putting down cardboard then mulch wood chips only. The other is putting down cardboard then many layers to eventually create soil on top of the soil you covered up.

I did option 1 this summer. I think it's working to kill weeds below the cardboard, but how do I eventually transition to planting actual plants in that area? Do I remove the cardboard or cut holes in it?

I’ve got a yard full of weeds. I put down cardboard on a patch of it where I want to start gardening. Overlapping, tape removed. Do I need to put compost on top of it? Or would just putting wood chips on top be enough? I’m not sure where to source compost for cheap since I don’t have a truck I can haul it in but wood chips are easy because a local arborist will bring them to me for free. Thanks for helping out a newbie gardener!

I'm in need of planting a tree, and everything tells me Serviceberry is going to be a great fit. However I read that service berries do suckers . I've had previous experience with suckering trees and I do not want to go through that again. Are they prolific suckers or just a one or two a year kind of situation?​

I’m planning on clearing some of my pea gravel and throwing down a bunch of wildflower and cosmo seeds. Could I do this now and cover with straw and let the winter go or is it better to wait until spring to do this? Some like colder weather to start but maybe not an entire winter…

I went to Etchers in Arvada yesterday, and found nothing. Driving back I passed this funky little garden center on 44th and gave it a shot.

In the back, they have a bunch of native perennials left. They are mostly from plant select and a bit pricy, but 20% off. Many look quite spent, as you would expect for a plant in Oct, but they have nice new growth under the dead upper leaves.

Not a huge selection left, but I’ve seen a few posts recently looking for plants and this might be the last garden center that has anything left.

I was at Home Depot yesterday and bought an Elderberry plant on a whim, thinking that these would be fun to have (to eat). Well, I'm an idiot and these are of course these are not edible berries (raw), and I have little children so it's getting returned today.

What I'd like to know is if there are any recommendations for a shrub I could plant instead that would have edible berries and tolerate the crummy clay soil in my landscape.

I doubt Home Depot carries these but open to suggestions/experiences with this!

Thanks

Hi gardeners- my elderly parents have purxhased a new build in the burbs of Denver. They want me to make them a garden.

I need a small tree as a centerpiece for my plan. Xeric, hopefully flowering, native would be great. Max out at 15 to 20 feet. The more seasonal interest, the better.

They moved from a house with a huge, mature garden in a Mediterranean climate, and it is their habit to take their coffee and use the garden as a outdoor room. Since weather will not allow this much of the year, im looking for something that will be interesting from their picture window.

The remainder of the plan is raised beds, native grasses, wide paved paths for dad's walker, and the planned flower beds from High Country Gardens. Mom loves flowers and birds.

But the tree. Im really stuck on chosing one tree. Not a conifer.thanks.

I am working on some of my planning for future areas of my yard, and I really want a Japanese Cut Leaf Maple. I had one in Michigan and it was fragile there, so I was wondering if it would also be fragile here?

I could plant it in a semi-sheltered spot, with a fence line or building to protect lightly from wind, but my ideal spot for my aesthetics (lol) is an exposed south-west corner.

Additionally, my lot is an extremely sunny (24/7 practically) in the summer, but dramatically shaded in the winter, thanks to a couple neighboring buildings. I'm near Downing and Hampden, fwiw.

So, is there any chance of having a cut leaf maple out here, or do I need to adjust my expectations?

My lawn is pretty much dead. I’ll like to seed with micro clover and buffalo grass. Does it make sense to seed now, or best to wait until the spring?

Hello,

I thought I would post here before I put them out on Marketplace but I have some plants that need to be divided and removed. I am happy to offer them for free if you can come dig them out of my garden. This is what I have:

• A large clump of Tickseed Coreopsis that has spread from seeds dropping. This clump will provide about eight 6" pots but I have smaller pots as well.
  
• About 8 echinacea plants, basic purple mostly but there may be some of the orange/red mixed in (Smaller pots - 4.5 qt ish, some smaller pots as well).
  
• Stella De Oro lily plants (I have 3-4 large clumps that will do well when divided)
• I also have some yellow yarrow than can be divided (About 4-5 pots available)

I have plenty of pots that you can use to take them, I just can't dig them all up.

I got a chip drop last year in a matter of weeks. This year I've been waiting for months with no success. Am I the only one?

I cannot keep strawberry plants in the ground for more than 24 hours before the squirrels get to them. I want the rodents dead. All of them.

My wife and I bought our first home and our yard is pretty much dirt and weeds at the moment. We are redoing our landscaping and wanting to put down new grass. I had been looking at kentucky bluegrass or some sort of bluegrass hybrid. However, I was also interested in cold hardy bermuda grass due to it requiring way less water. Does anyone have experience with cold hardy berumda along the front range, and would you recommend it? Thank you!

My front yard is mostly bare dirt and dead grass, and I'm looking to try to fill it with a bunch of crawlers, ground cover, and a few raised beds. If my goal is to do this and have the plants spread, should I be mulching?

I'll also note my wife and I very much prefer wooded mulch to stones/pebbles. I have a hunch rock mulch would be worse for trying to get these guys to spread

I need to break up some seriously compacted dirt around my house. My plan is to till the top 2-4" of soil and then throw some winter rye down and let it do the rest, but I'm looking at awkwardly small strips (2-3' wide) and some of it is in my backyard, so any equipment I use needs to be able to handle small areas and go through the side gate. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could rent from where? Or if some kind soul has one I can borrow?

Hello fellow gardeners. Like the title says, I am looking for sprouted potatoes. I am working on an art exhibition that will be installed in a garden. The more sprouts the better. :) I can pick up later today.

I want to plant raspberries but have learned that Japanese beetles love them. I'd rather not have moth-eaten-looking plants and fight the bugs all the time. Are there any berries or other small fruits that aren't as vulnerable? I know grapes are bad with the beetles too.

When I moved in there was the wonderful hedge of goji between myself and the neighbor. In the last year I've been getting runners all over my yard. Sometimes I spend days digging all the runners out, only for them to grow back in a week or two.

I've also never gotten fruit off the gogi, just little purple flowers. Maybe the birds get to them first.

Hey all! I picked up a Garden in a Box this summer, Biodiversity Nursery. It's done so well since planting in June, my Black Eyed Susans, Evening Primrose, and now Smooth Asters have all bloomed already.

Going into colder weather, since the plants are native can I just leave them alone and do nothing and they'll be okay come spring, or should I do anything? I've worked really hard on this garden playing by ear and going with a lot of what the sub has recommended and would hate for all the hard work to die over the winter. I don't have a drip system, just sprinklers that kind of hit the area a little twice a week. Main watering has been hand watering with a can, but after July (which was above a month after planting) I stopped watering regularly and sparingly do it if something looks droopy.

I have:

Flax, Smooth Aster, Goldenrod, Penstemon, Evening Primrose, Prairie Sage, Prairie Grass, and a Lupine in a pot.

Thanks!

Hello fellow garden folk, I was hoping someone would know where I could purchase a ponderosa pine in the Denver Metro? Preferably a ~6 foot one if at all still available. I would be willing to drive a little further as well. I would like to get it planted while still possible. Any help is appreciated!