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What Planting Zone Is Pagosa Springs, Colorado?

Pagosa Springs sits at 7,126 feet in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, surrounded by national forest and a […]

Monument sits north of Colorado Springs at an elevation near 7,000 feet, and that altitude changes everything about gardening here.

Montrose occupies a unique position on Colorado’s Western Slope, tucked between the Uncompahgre Plateau and the San Juan Mountains. Gardeners

Loveland draws gardeners with its scenic views and fertile land near the Big Thompson River, but the city’s northern Front

Littleton sits just south of Denver, and its mild Front Range position fools a lot of gardeners into thinking they

Greeley sits in an odd position on the Colorado map. The Rocky Mountains rise just 25 miles to the west,

Grand Junction occupies a strange and wonderful corner of Colorado. While gardeners in Denver and Fort Collins scramble to squeeze

Fort Collins gardeners deal with a climate that looks gentle on paper but delivers surprises at odd moments. A sunny

Lakewood stretches along Denver’s western edge, and many gardeners here assume they share the same growing conditions as the rest

Most people associate prickly pear cactus with Arizona or Mexico. The idea that prickly pear grows wild in Colorado surprises