Tag: home and garden
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Remodeling expo brings local experts to Norris Penrose Event Center
Every home has a project waiting. The to-do list often starts small: fixing a drafty window, cleaning an overly-ignored carpet or working on an air conditioner that struggles through another hot afternoon. Those small frustrations can often have a way of turning into bigger renovation plans. A remodel imagined, a repair postponed or an upgrade…
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World’s only film festival celebrating mushrooms comes to Colorado Springs
Ben Kinsley is a man who likes to dress up as a mushroom. For the past several years, he and his creative team of Riitta Ikonen and Jessica Langley have attended the Telluride Mushroom Festival, which is famous for its costume parade and costume contest. And each year, they’ve managed to crack the code and…
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Bird Call: New Jackson Hole Birding Festival, Colorado festivals offer field trips, workshops, seminars
Yellowstone National Park can change a person. It can also inspire a person to start a bird festival, as it did for conservation filmmaker David Rohm, who first fell in love with the park while shooting his 2022 documentary, “Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West.” The visit inspired him to found the Jackson Hole…
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Hints from Heloise for Feb. 14
Dear Heloise: I live in one of the last houses on my street that still receives a daily newspaper, and I always enjoy reading your column in the Orange County Register. Even though we hardly ever get rain where I live, the newspaper arrives every day wrapped in a blue plastic bag. I used to…
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Colorado Springs Home & Garden Show returns for three-day weekend
From new roofing and solar solutions to hot tubs and garage upgrades, the Colorado Springs Home & Garden Show returns to the Norris-Penrose Event Center for a three-day weekend, showcasing local and regional home improvement experts. The event runs Friday, Feb. 6, from noon to 6 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and…
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Bird Call: In praise of the commoners
Sometimes I catch myself classifying birds into two categories: fancy and regular. Shame on me. This is a bad attitude, because all birds are gorgeous little creatures. But I fear, after all these years of birdwatching, I can sometimes be a little blind to the “regular degulars” – the house finches, sparrows, chickadees, Northern flickers,…
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A ‘dinosaur tree’ and its prehistoric journey to a Colorado greenhouse
Back in September, Malinda Barberio received an email from someone claiming to have a Wollemi pine. No way, thought Barberio, the University of Colorado greenhouse manager. “Because I know what they are,” she said. She knew the Wollemi pine to be extremely rare, previously thought to be gone with the dinosaurs, which are believed to…
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Year-round gardening: Tips for winter watering
Kim SnowdonColorado Master Gardener “Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” — William Cullen Bryant Autumn in Colorado has been especially beautiful this year, showcasing leaves ablaze with color. But it’s also been very dry. So winter watering is critical in this region’s arid, high-desert climate. Trees, shrubs, lawns and perennials should be watered one or…
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Year-round gardening: Propagating succulents from leaf cuttings
By Allisa Zurbuchen, Horticulture Specialist The Pikes Peak region’s outdoor gardens are entering dormancy, and, while many gardeners also allow their gardening enthusiasm to go dormant until seed catalogs arrive in the mail, your interests might turn to indoor plants. Many succulent plant species are great beginner-friendly options that can withstand neglect and are easy…
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Year-round gardening: Forcing spring bulbs indoors
By Fredricka Bogardus, Colorado Master Gardener Maybe you bought some spring bulbs this fall and never got them in the ground, or maybe you found some on clearance and made an impulse purchase. Don’t despair; it isn’t too late to use those bulbs even if there is a foot of snow on the ground. Spring…