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!

Dont wash that way no soap just vinigar,soap leaves film,and always boil wtr first when filling.

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 ❤❤❤❤

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.

Any tips on grasshoppers? we're a little overrun at our place.

Omg! Soo beautiful

We have a blue spruce in our back yard that's 40 ft tall and still growing. Live at 6200 ft in Castle Rock.

Another great video!

Informative video…but did you really make THAT your thumbnail? 😂

It’s funny that you seem to have named all of the trees that I see growing around Peyton!😂

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.

Do you find that trees fare better in Colorado if planted now in the spring or in the fall?

All good suggestions with wildfire season upon us.

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.)

I laughed out loud at the Mrs. Colorado Gardner list callout so let’s see hers

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. 😵😵😵

Insufferable. The invasive species is ... look in a mirror.

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.

We went today. I totally had no idea how big this place really is. Wear your comfy shoes and pack water and a snack!

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.

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.😧

by the way, aspens send up shoots vigorously - kind of hard when mowing

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.

Take all the fallen leaves you think are a problem and make compost.

Stop acting so gay

Plant Russian Olives. They are an invasive species similar to European colonists, ugly and unwanted.

Do you think they would do ok in southern Wisconsin? I love these trees and want one in my yard. Thanks!

The juniper trees have grown on me over the years

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great video. Do you offer landscaping services? We live in Lone Tree.

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.

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!

You’ve been a wealth of information for this first time home owner and now happy outdoor gardener. Thank you!

Thank you for these month by month what to dos. It is exactly what this first time Colorado gardener needs.

I appreciate the videos, it looks like your gardens will be quite amazing here in a couple weeks!! They already do look good.

Close the test or blowout valves before the 1/4 turn shut offs or you may be in for a surprise :D :D

I grew up in Kansas City, Kansas with one of the biggest cottonwoods on the block in our front yard. It was hit by lightning when I was a kid. Surprisingly, it didn’t kill the tree. As a kid, I loved all the leaves and cotton that floated in the air. As an adult messy trees have me thinking otherwise.😅

"Why bother when they're mostly gone?" Because they're mostly gone, not entirely gone.

Aspens are the bane of my landscape along with bindweed.

I’ll be getting mine out soon! Last year, I had Proven Winners brand Rockin Playing the Blues Salvia out growing near the hummingbird feeder and when that was in bloom, the hummers just went to town on the salvia.

All I ever see at my feeders is wasps 😞

Thanks for the reminder!

I love watching gardening videos from all over the country but when it comes to actually learning about growing in CO, I come back to you. No place has the conditions we have to be mindful of. Have you made (or will you make) a video about the intense sun here? When choosing plants, the zone map is handy to know what survives the cold but is there an equivalent guide for how heat tolerant a plant is?

😂😂😂”Let us know in the comments below if you think Mrs. Front Range Gardener should make her OWN list.” You have a follower for life. Thanks for making me laugh while confirming we need to pull up our Aspens.