Popular ground covers in Denver include Korean rock fern, begonia and star cluster. These low plants spread quickly and overtake weeds. Ground cover crawls and sprawls across the yard and doesn’t grow tall.
If keeping up with mowing isn’t your idea of fun, turn to ground cover other than grass. Instead of competing with nature, native plants let your landscape coexist with it. Native plants are wildlife-friendly, providing habitat for birds, butterflies, and other pollinators. This also means you won’t have to use chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides on them. Native plants are also drought tolerant and require little water, making your landscape more energy efficient. Flowers such as the scarlet gilia and Rocky Mountain columbine need little maintenance because they’ve adapted to local soil and weather conditions. Consider Native PlantsĪnother way to spice up your landscape while supporting conservation efforts is to add native plants. Them up at various locations around Denver. Nonprofit behind these boxes is based in Boulder, but you can pick It takes about three years for the plants to reach The gardens are especially suited for Colorado soil and designed to You can add them to part of your yard or the entire thing to increase curbĪppeal. The kits are created for all gardening levels. The plants and vivid blooms addĬolor and beauty to your yard. Gardens designed by landscape professionals. Garden in a BoxĬreate a unique, gorgeous landscape with aĭo-it-yourself Garden In A Box. You might also consider adding a patio or sitting area to complement your xeriscape. But don’t buy those items from out of state – choose local material that holds up in our Colorado climate. You may prefer to mix living elements with hard materials such as stone, concrete, and pavers. Instead, use drought-tolerant native plants and flowers (more on that below!). That doesn’t mean you have to fill your yard with rocks and cacti. This landscaping method requires little to no irrigation.
One easy way to deal with the lack of rain is to xeriscape. Denver averages 17 inches per year the United States averages 38 inches. XeriscapeĬolorado isn’t known for its rainfall. Peter Goldberg offers six easy landscape ideas to complete your new home. Maybe you’d like to design something yourself and aren’t sure where to start. Castle Rock is changing landscape design from xeric to colorful.You love your new home and can’t wait to show it, off but there’s one more thing left to finish - the landscaping. It is the reduction of turf and the use of low-water-use plants and hardscape materials designed to have seasonal interest. If this sounds a bit like a xeriscape, that’s because it is! Xeriscape is not the expanse of rock with the absence of plants. This landscaping utilizes a combination of hardscape and landscape materials, providing a variety of colors, textures, sizes, shapes, and seasonal interest. Colorado is known for being colorful and that's just what our landscapes should be! Our yards don’t have to be just green with too much lawn, or just brown with too much rock! Our Castle Rock landscape should have the purple of salvia and white of daisies the creaminess of yuccas and orange of poppies the red of wispy grasses and the pink of crabapple blossoms.ĬoloradoScape is a natural landscape, comprised of low to very-low water-use-plant material, which blends in with the native Castle Rock landscape.
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