Creating Your Colorado-friendly Garden

Our series ‘Creating Your Colorado-friendly Garden’ is designed to help you through the process of creating a special garden; one suited to the climate, history and natural history of your region of Colorado.  In this series, we take you through the 8 steps of the design process.  Along the way, we offer hints and suggestions to help you.  This series will help you design a garden that’s well-suited to your family and neighborhood.  It will reflect your needs, tastes and desires – whether you design the garden yourself, or decide to work with a landscape designer.   

  

Topic	Link(s)
Introduction: Why Plan?	https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/08/designing-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
1.   Developing a base map (base plan).	Base Map 1: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/08/creating-colorado-friendly-garden-1a.html   Base Map 2: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/08/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
2.   Conducting a site inventory and analysis	Soil and Drainage: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/09/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html   Other Physical Characteristics: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/09/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden_25.html
3.   Assessing your family's needs (functional analysis).	https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/10/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
4.   Locating the use areas (bubble map)	https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2019/11/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
5.   Discovering your garden’s history	https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/01/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
6.   Determine your likes, dislikes, etc.	What Type of Gardener are You? : https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/01/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden_28.html   Your New Garden’s Style: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/06/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
7.   Developing a plan for water	Managing Water, Part 1: (goals; Water Zones; capturing rainwater) https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/07/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html    Managing Water, Part 2 (Irrigation): https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/08/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html   Irrigation plan for a larger garden: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/10/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
8.   Developing the hardscape plan	Pathways and Larger Built Hardscape: https://mothernaturesmontrosegarden.blogspot.com/2020/11/creating-your-colorado-friendly-garden.html
9.   Developing the design plan
10.Installing the garden