I'll have a Denver on the Rocks Bartender -and Make it a Double !
Coming home from Fling with a desire to rip out the whole garden and start over is a common though impractical sentiment. Common to me I should add. Different climate zone, different plants, different soils, different plot size, but still the raw hunger to possess an Eden of sorts where one can grow anything, anytime and have a garden like the one we just saw today or yesterday or the day before persists. My own garden never looks as good when I come home as it did before I ventured forth to visit those of others. Still, after 30years of gardening where I live, I have learned which envelopes I can push, how much energy I'm willing to ante up to create a faux climate for plants that won't thrive in mine, and how to let go of the gardens I will never have. My garden is in USDA 9 , Sunset zone 15 . Denver is in USDA 5b , Sunset zone 2A-defined as 'Warmer Summer Intermountain'. Because Denver is in the west, and experiences only an average of 15 inches of rai...