Revisiting Sheila’s garden in Colorado, Day 1

It ’s been over a year since we last visited Sheila Schultz ’s garden in Denver ! I was so happy to see new photos of her garden in my inbox yesterday .

Sheila says,“Hey gardening friends , I calculate it was about metre to place some photograph of my gardens and containers to GPOD , it ’s been quite a while . We moved to Denver from the Chicago domain 9 years ago and my way of horticulture deepen dramatically . I was used to shadow gardening , ample rain , and more - than - desired humidness . Denver is considered a high plains desert so we have intense Dominicus , typically low rain amounts , and very low humidity . It has been quite the learning curve , peculiarly when you add in all the unlike micro - mood in my horticulture areas !

We re - landscaped our tiny backyard within months of moving in mainly out of requirement since it was home to a broken basketball game motor lodge . The 20×60 space was replaced with a flagstone patio and two gardens . The front yard followed the next spring , and my rock gardening passion was born .

These gardens were my first to design even though I had gardened for years . My initial destination was to try as many young sun plants as possible , the hotter the people of color the better . As always in gardening , some inhabit and some give-up the ghost . The good thing is that I have yet to hightail it out of new possibilities to stress !

I freely take to being a plantaholic , but I am trying to be far more thoughtful in using low water plant . In the hottest of summers , water 3 multiplication a workweek is sufficient for my beds , but my goal is getting it down to 2 . Having no grass is very helpful in our drought ridden area . ”

Everything is sooooo adorable , Sheila ! * * * Tomorrow we ’ll get a tour of Sheila ’s container creations ! * * * *

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Sheila’s house in Colorado is bursting at the seams with plants!

Revisiting Sheila’s garden in Colorado, Day 2–Containers!

Sheila’s containers in Colorado

Sheila’s Garden in Colorado

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