Xeric garden colorado. A brief context to set expectations.
Xeric garden colorado: Quick notes
Hi GPODers!
No garden is without challenges and obstacles, but some locations certainly make gardening more complicated than others. Your property—the amount of space you have, the number of mature trees in and around your landscape, the quality of your soil, and so on—also plays a major role in the ease of creating and maintaining a garden. However, today’s post is a prime example that no set of conditions can stop a determined gardener from creating an enviable outdoor space. Ryan Harter in Castle Rock, Colorado (Zone 5b), contends with climate extremes but embraces the rugged rock gardens of the Mountain West to create stunning displays. His home garden is a marvelous collection of color and fascinating, drought-tolerant plants that prove his challenging conditions don’t require any compromise on beauty. To see even more of Ryan’s spectacular space, check him out on Instagram: @thexericgarden.
This garden began as a typical suburban Colorado lot and has gradually evolved into a dense, drought-tolerant planting filled with texture and long-season interest. Gardening in Castle Rock means designing for extremes: intense sun, temperature swings, and heavy spring snow. I focus on resilient perennials such as penstemon, salvia, nepeta, ice plants, yarrow, dwarf conifers, and many more, woven through native and adapted grasses that provide structure and movement. The garden is layered tightly to reduce water use and suppress weeds while still creating a lush appearance. It is both a personal experiment in climate-adapted planting and a space meant to inspire others gardening in similar high-plains conditions. The garden contains over 200 varieties of plants.
Ice plant pathway
Drought-tolerant wonderland
Native-ish planting
Fall garden
Another view of Ryan’s incredible landscape in fall. Small clumps of grasses are little pops of color and texture among the many low-growing plants.
Spring garden
Thank you so much for sharing your gorgeous garden with us, Ryan! I’m certain your landscape has inspired many readers to view drought-tolerant and water-wise landscapes in a whole new light.
What challenges do you face in your garden, and what plant selections or design choices help you overcome the obstacles to create something beautiful? Let us know in the comments, or consider sharing photos of your garden with the blog. Follow the NEW directions below to submit your photos to Garden Photo of the Day!
We want to see YOUR garden!
Have photos to share? We’d love to see your garden, a particular collection of plants you love, or a wonderful garden you had the chance to visit!
To submit, fill out the Garden Photo of the Day Submission Form.
You can also send 5–10 photos to [email protected] along with some information about the plants in the pictures and where you took the photos. We’d love to hear where you are located, how long you’ve been gardening, successes you are proud of, failures you learned from, hopes for the future, favorite plants, or funny stories from your garden.
Do you receive the GPOD by email yet? Sign up here
Fine Gardening Recommended Products
Corona® Multi-Purpose Metal Mini Garden Shovel
Fine Gardening receives a commission for items purchased through links on this site, including Amazon Associates and other affiliate advertising programs.
Longer Service Life: The blade of this round small shovel is made of carbon steel, which can effectively improve the hardness by high temperature quenching, and the surface has anti-rust coating to avoid rusting. In the process of use when encountering hard objects will not bend and deformation.
Sturdy Structure: The small garden shovel with D-handle, ergonomically designed grip can increase the grip of the hand when using, the handle is made of strong fiberglass, will not bend and break under heavy pressure. Quick Digging: Well-made digging shovel has a sharp blade, and the round shovel head is designed to easily penetrate the soil and cut quickly while digging to enhance your work efficiency.
Black and Decker 22-inch Cordless Hedge Trimmer
Fine Gardening receives a commission for items purchased through links on this site, including Amazon Associates and other affiliate advertising programs.
Quick and easy to put into operation and is less noisy and lighter in weight than gas-powered hedge trimmers.
– 38 x 7 x 7 inches
– 6.9 pounds
– 1 Lithium Ion battery required (included)
Buffalo-Style Gardens: Create a Quirky, One-of-a-Kind Private Garden with Eye-Catching Designs
Fine Gardening receives a commission for items purchased through links on this site, including Amazon Associates and other affiliate advertising programs.
Buffalo-Style Gardens is a one-of-a-kind, offbeat garden design book that showcases the wildly inventive gardens and gardeners of Buffalo – and offers readers “the best of the best” ideas to use in their own small-space gardens.
We reference Xeric garden colorado briefly to keep the thread coherent.
Xeric garden colorado comes up here to connect ideas for clarity.
