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Marcia Tatroe

Phlox paniculata is a late bloomer thatcan turn fall into a second spring.

Tatroe: Let’s hear it for the late bloomers

May 5, 2016 at 7:11 p.m.

Tatroe: Let's hear it for the late bloomers

Orange Oriental poppy blazes in the summer sun after spring's more demure blooms have fled.

Tatroe: Spring fades, but better blooming is on the way

May 6, 2016 at 3:30 p.m.

Tatroe: Spring fades, but better blooming is on the way

Thuja "4ever Gold" arborvitae, leftrear, will provide privacy in the border.

Tatroe: Time for border patrol at property’s edge

May 6, 2016 at 2:38 p.m.

Tatroe: Time for border patrol at property's edge

A hanging basket planted with exclusively with torenia is torn apart to yield seven good-sized starts.

Tatroe: Now it’s time to fill that vast collection of pots

May 6, 2016 at 1:42 p.m.

Tatroe: Now it's time to fill that vast collection of pots

Petunias and verbena are popular precisely because they can shrug off cold nights.

Tatroe: Some flowers can’t handle flirtation with frost

May 6, 2016 at 3:51 p.m.

Tatroe: Some flowers can't handle flirtation with frost

Panayoti Kelaidis planted a garden with hundreds of dryland plants.

Xeriscape effort a success story in ’01-02 drought

May 6, 2016 at 1:59 p.m.

Xeriscape effort a success story in '01-02 drought

Perilla, impatiens and sweet-potato vine make a simple but beautiful pot.

Tatroe: The easy art of container-garden collage

May 5, 2016 at 7:23 p.m.

Tatroe: The easy art of container-garden collage

Weather- delayed chores getting you down? Focus on what's blooming, like these "Little Princess" tulips.

Tatroe: You, with the schedule: Put down the pruners, and bask

May 6, 2016 at 3:40 p.m.

Tatroe: You, with the schedule: Put down the pruners, and bask

Kansas prairie native shelleaf penstemon has rooted down hard in Marcia Tatroe's Centennial garden, where 20 years of digging and amending have converted high desert into high plains.

Tatroe: Human roto-tiller creates Kansas-like topsoil

May 6, 2016 at 5:03 p.m.

Tatroe: Human roto-tiller creates Kansas-like topsoil

Bush morning glory does not grow easily in home gardens.

Tatroe: Stalking Colorado’s native landscape

May 6, 2016 at 5:33 p.m.

Tatroe: Stalking Colorado's native landscape