Blog Detail

High Altitude Gardening

High Altitude Gardening

http://highaltitudegardening.blogspot.com

Growing an impossible garden at 7,000 feet. Find tips and tricks for growing perennials, veggies and trees in high mountain terrain. Planting advice, harvest recipes and the occasional ode to gardening plans gone wrong.

subscribe Recent Posts

  • Gold Lake

    Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 16:37

    At the end of a dirt road, high in the Colorado Rockies, is a little place called the Gold Lake Resort.We descended upon this joint to help birthday girl, M, celebrate the big 5-0. That's just not possible, is it? That we're this old?Well, M is that ...

  • Purple Asters: Last Daisy Hurrah

    Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 18:15

    In Autumn, Purple Asters is the name of my game. They are happily blooming in every nook and cranny.What's so great about Asters? Well, if you're dreading the onslaught of winter, they're just about the latest 'Daisy' to bloom in the garden.They're g...

  • Heirloom Bulbs & Indian Summer

    Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 10:39

    "All is perfectly still, as if Nature, after her exertions during Summer, were now at rest." - John Bradbury, 1817High in the mountains, we're quietly savoring our 'second summer.' Those warm, peaceful days that come right after Mother Nature has fro...

  • Crabby Apples

    Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 16:14

    I grow Crabapple trees for the flowers. Birds love the fruit.I started blogging a couple years ago, at a time in my life when things were literally falling apart at the seams. Starting that blog I had 2 paths to take ~ I could bitch non-stop about re...

  • Stylishly Late

    Posted on Tuesday September 16th, 2008 at 16:25

    I expected to see little Moonbeam Coreopsis a month ago. Not sure what took her so long to get with the program.Yarrow should have finished flowering mid-August. Perhaps she and the Moonbeams are plotting a new growing season? (I know they're fast fr...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 9.00 out of a possible 10 based on 1 comment.

themir

miriam

loved your flowering trees

Posted: Wednesday June 11th, 2008 at 11:29 | More Reviews From themir | Report This Comment

Post A Comment/Review

* Your IP is being logged.
* Your e-mail address is used only for verification purposes only and will not be sold, or shown publicly.
* No HTML tags allowed
* DO NOT use the Comments/Reviews to promote your own site.

Name: or Login
E-mail:
Rating:
Verify: Spam Protection: sum of 1 + 1
Comment:
  Remember Information