by CONPS SD | Apr 30, 2026 | CoNPS Blog
Welcome to the wild world of a Colorado spring! “It’s 95 degrees today! It’s snowing today! We’re going to have 100-mile-an-hour winds today!” But guess what? John Muir was right: “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” Pasqueflowers, spring beauties, and...
by CONPS SD | Feb 15, 2026 | CoNPS Blog
When our Executive Director, Maggie Gaddis, opened the Boulder Chapter’s first meeting of the year, she offered a powerful reminder: “For the past 50 years, we have been the constant guardians of our native plants.” This wasn’t just a reflection—it...
by CONPS SD | Dec 4, 2025 | CoNPS Blog
When I relocated from the verdant East to the dry Colorado Front Range, I traded my tractor for a townhouse—and an HOA. We hear many stories about HOAs that do not welcome anything but turf grass and regimented landscape designs, but this was not the case in my new...
by CONPS SD | Aug 17, 2025 | CoNPS Blog
No matter how much planning and research goes into the creation of a native garden, there are bound to be hits and misses! Even if we use plants that we know are native to our region, the conditions in our garden – from soil composition and drainage to the...
by CONPS SD | May 10, 2025 | CoNPS Blog
I’m the proud owner of a 28-year old native plant garden in central Boulder. I started thegarden myself, back in the 90s, by planting many little shrubs and tiny native pines I gotfrom a local nursery. Not so surprisingly, over the intervening decades, my little...