![]() ![]() The local homeowners' association had a strict yard maintenance code that forbade anything that upset the homogeneous look of the neighborhood. ![]() Such a wild, unmanicured garden was verboten in 2013, when Dungy first moved to Fort Collins with her husband and young daughter. So right now we have a very blonde garden!" They stay up "to create winter interest," she says, "but also a lot of the native pollinators will nest or plant their eggs and larvae under and around many of these native plants. She leads me on a tour of what she calls her backyard "prairie project," which she's filled with native grasses like blue grama and little bluestem, and with perennials that will flower later in the spring: penstemon, bee balm, baptisia, echinacea, Lewis flax.ĭungy shows me the tall dried grasses that she's left standing from last season, along with the dead stalks from her milkweed and sunflowers. Because Dungy lives at altitude, her garden is a couple of months behind mine and her plantings still mostly dormant. ![]() ![]() When we talk, my garden is bursting with bloom, with beds of deep purple columbine, hot pink and lavender phlox, spiky white foamflower. Catie Dull/NPR Hot pink moss phlox spills over a stone wall. ![]()
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