by CONPS SD | Jun 30, 2026 | CoNPS Blog
Exploring Five Decades of AquilegiaFifty years ago, William Weber wrote the first issue of Aquilegia. He couldn’t have known then that a simple black-and-white newsletter would evolve into the full-color, resource-rich magazine we enjoy today. Until...
by CONPS SD | Jun 14, 2026 | CoNPS Blog
Coming Soon to State Land Near You: Native Plants! The Colorado Native Plant Society (CoNPS) was a vital part of a coalition headed by Joyce Kennedy, Executive Director of the People and Pollinators Action Network (PPAN), which drafted and sucessfully advanced...
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...