Betty Cahill
Betty Cahill
Betty Cahill speaks and writes about gardening in the Rocky Mountain Region. Visit her site at for even more gardening tips.
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Keep it cute: Tips on decorating outdoor garden containers for the winter months
Without intervention, these bowls full of lifeless sticks and bundles of inert flora will remain until next spring. How boring is that?

More warts, please: How gourds got their gross growths
Porches are now sporting new colored pumpkins in shades of beige, green, red, white, gray, mustard, brown, even "blue pink" (yes, there is such a color). From palm-sized to several-hundred-pound...

Putting your Colorado garden to bed for the winter
It is Colorado, after all, and winter can arrive any minute, impolitely skipping a gradual cool-wet fall season that gardeners and landscape plants prefer.

Putting your Colorado garden to bed for the winter
It is Colorado, after all, and winter can arrive any minute, impolitely skipping a gradual cool-wet fall season that gardeners and landscape plants prefer.

How to plant an apartment-friendly container garden for the fall
It's time to start getting creative with your plants.

Planning your Colorado home landscape: tips from the pros
Just about everyone in America wants to spend more time outdoors during the pandemic. But with all that extra time outside we become more aware of eyesores like overgrown shrubs,...

Japanese beetles are ravaging Colorado gardens. Here are more tips to keep them out of your yard.
When the final Japanese beetle has fallen dead sometime in September, smile and enjoy the rest of the fall season. There is hope on the far horizon to battle this...

Whatap that plant? How to identify Colorado plants you don’t recognize.
How hard is it to identify an unknown plant? Piece of cake; you just need to know where to look.

The time to start planting your fall garden is *checks calendar* now
Even in this heat? Yes.

How to create a bee-friendly garden in Denver to support Colorado’s more than 900 native species
How to show some love to Colorado's more than 900 species of native bees.