🌱 The Garden Wise Journal — October 2026 “Gardening is more than a hobby; it is a lifestyle.” Welcome to The Garden Wise Journal October in Colorado can give you a warm afternoon and a hard freeze in the same week. The garden is changing, but there is still...
A practical October checklist for Denver and Front Range gardens, with adjustments for Colorado’s mountains, plains, Western Slope and south.
Leaves can protect soil and support garden life, but not every leaf belongs in every bed. Here is the practical Colorado answer.
Blue mist spirea brings vivid late-season blue flowers and pollinator activity to sunny, well-drained Colorado gardens.
October is root season along Colorado’s Front Range. Learn what to plant, how to water and how to protect new and established roots before winter.
Yes, I’m actually recommending Russian sage. The new varieties are not the garden thug of old. It is one of those Colorado garden workhorses that earns its keep: silvery, aromatic foliage, a long haze of lavender-blue flowers, and remarkable tolerance for heat, sun,...