DOUGLAS COUNTY • Among growing trees and melting snow, this round roof is a natural marvel in its own way.
Many perennial plants provide a gorgeous show of blooms in the spring and summer, but by fall, most blooms have faded, and the garden may look…
“Would you please stop shedding?” I beg Luke, our 55-pound hound mix (Great Pyrenees, German shepherd, chow, basset hound and a few more shedd…
The new exhibit, “Reframing Birds of America: Conversations on Audubon," will open Friday at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado Col…
Colorado is not well-known as a grape-growing region, but Front Range gardeners can still grow great grapes for making juice, jam, jelly and e…
I went house hunting last weekend with my daughter and her fiance, who are moving from Texas to Colorado next month.
There’s plenty to like about “before” and “after” pictures.
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I don’t know about you, but my weekly screen-time hours are embarrassingly excessive. The more attention I pay to my electronic devices, the m…
During the devastating windstorm in December, many trees were lost. Large evergreens were uprooted or simply split into pieces by the wind gusts.
“A room of one’s own,” author Virginia Woolf declared back in 1929, was a must if a woman was going to be a writer. Nearly 100 years later, I …
Most of our Pikes Peak region lawns are cool-season grasses. That means that most active growth occurs when temperatures are 60 to 75 degrees …
Starting seeds indoors is a simple and inexpensive way to enjoy many vegetable varieties not commonly found in garden centers. Starting seeds …
Here’s one good result born from the pandemic. Many more people started using their hands and hearts to make crafts at home.
The right tool for any given garden task makes the work easier and more enjoyable. When building your tool arsenal, buy the highest quality av…
Just the name Murphy bed makes me laugh. It conjures memories of hilarious scenes in slapstick comedies, where the beds, possessed with demoni…
Before buying a tree, shrub or perennial, homeowners should research the plant’s mature size to allow enough space for that plant to grow in a…
Forget sizing people up by their clothes, cars, or careers. You want to know someone? Look at their books. What people choose to fill their mi…
As long as we’re celebrating the month of love, I thought this would be a good time to speak out on behalf of the 36 million singles out there…
Here’s the problem with being a home design columnist who talks to a lot of creative people who have good taste and good ideas: Once you know …
East of downtown Colorado Springs, in an otherwise unremarkable neighborhood of low-slung houses, there stands a home that doesn’t quite look …
Registration for the virtual Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants Conference on Feb. 26 is open. The experts are here to help. tinyurl.com/…
“Those TV home makeovers that happened in a one-hour episode? People don’t realize, I had a crew of 100, and it took us a week to do one house.”
“Here’s the dirty little secret,” one professional organizer said. (Doesn’t that expression just make you lean in?) “Professional organizers h…
It’s official: Most of El Paso County is in a severe drought, according to the Colorado Climate Center at Colorado State University.
One needs courage and more than a little trust to let an outsider come into your home to rifle through personal belongings with the goal of st…
When Cara Solomon of Philadelphia was moving into a new apartment 14 years ago, she knew one thing: She didn’t want to live like she’d been living.
The Golden Lotus Foundation is a local nonprofit that celebrates Asian traditions and heritage through diverse educational programs as well as…