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The irrigation lines still needed to be covered completely with gravel mulch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/3f4c1748-d186-4052-b02b-58a0828b958e/MVNC+demo+garden+instruction.jpg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Terra gives a talk to the Wild Ones, stopping at the new installation of the Colorado succulent and natives garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/fe783a06-9dde-411e-a422-dd51904aa6cd/IMG_0574.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center The entrance to the Nature Center is obscured by a huge cottonwood trunk, making it tricky for visitors to find the front door. When I arrived volunteers were charged with getting invasive buckthorn trees out. (to the right of window) It proved nearly impossible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/1771348741559-TW0BMILGKF81RNPOT5OE/IMG_1027.png Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Gaillardia, or blanket flower, can be grown to mass profusion like this. In itss natural habitat, you're more likely to find only one or two stems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/a491c008-82b2-4326-b825-a23a3e6cc8d9/IMG_1927.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center This was only the second year this lonicera sempivirens exploded with red. 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Sedums, succulents and penstemons hate their roots soaking, so keep that in mind when locating them in the garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/9ffff2fd-9fd4-4571-86e2-6d04e1858440/agastache.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Another hummingbird attractor, Agastache Rupestris or 'hummingbird mint' is a cold hearty, drought tolerant garden star. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/33a4a086-3fb1-4226-88d7-4882778334af/IMG_0025.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Creeping Hummingbird Trumpet (zauschneria) is a vigorous and colorful groundcover that blooms from the heat of June and then again in September. *Native to CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/dc16b853-6f4c-4a64-aa9d-f90491127a0e/MVNC+asters.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center "Ruby Red" Aster is spectacular in the fall and your native pollinators will thank you. Asters and goldenrod to go well together, by the way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/251192b5-fe16-43a3-b7ad-48ec16b28bda/IMG_0344.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center False indigo (baptisia australis) grows to nearly three feet in the summer and then dies back to the ground every year. It is in the legume family, so it is a nitrogen fixer. Hummingbirds and butterflies. love it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/d594fb32-b88f-40ae-ab4e-ddbcc98a0750/New+Mexico++primrose.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center New Mexico Evening Primrose (oenothera neomexicana) is heaven scented and the drought tolerant cousin of the Missouri. Not nearly as vigorous a spreader, it adores disturbed, riparian, rocky, forest soil, and can be overwatered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/026ae4e8-a369-45b8-a63c-1d7d29e67720/IMG_0511.JPG Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center This gorgeous fire penstemon was labeled USDA zone 6, and I forgot to protect it before winter by giving it a large rock. It did not return the next year. The Nature Center is decidedly 5b. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/6e2154bf-0731-434c-923e-a909166e7cb1/MVNC+penstemon.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Red rocks penstemon, electric blue penstemon, and rocky mountain penstemon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/df2c2f48-afc5-4d9e-adbc-e9e1a945f9fb/Penstemon+pollinators.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Electric blue penstemon (heterophylus) with rocky mountain penstemon (strictus) and budding echinacea. The "bee hotel" for the pollinator garden is in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/1771440748168-N2VFJRVZ7TMO5LFZYU8F/IMG_0437.jpg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center A lone columbine blooms amid competing native geranium flowers. When I arrived, we removed a lot of buckthorn, pruned the sand cherry away from the entry door, and then later the staff expanded the deck and walkway. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/e20874b5-9d96-4d9f-acbb-e0cff8f2cf75/MVNC+entrance+garden+fall.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Here one can see the large weedy buckthorn has been removed down to the stump behind the corner window. The view opens up to the lawn and park behind it. An "Open" flag lets folks in the park know staff is on site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/e49cb804-a8b9-4624-b526-07320be8be20/MVNC+summer.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center Even the view from the parking lot was "majestic" and I couldn't believe the Rocky Mountains were just in our backyard! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/9e4e3dd5-e404-44a4-b94f-97e6fb950a54/IMG_2271.jpeg Eco-Projects - Majestic View Nature Center The entry was in great need of an update. The original landscaping was actually becoming buried over the years as the property is on a slope. 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We eliminated 90% of the monocrop and introduced 10 different varieties. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/fb63517e-f7ac-4427-8490-ddb1a80f2109/Kagan+Year+2.jpg Eco-Projects - Entrance Remodel Santa Fe Here the garden is maturing and spring color rewards us for the wait. In the backround, grasses and trees will show off their colors later. The path now curves to bring the visitor to the more interesting parts of the property and the eye slows down to wander. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6841fc04a0488e6f06c7c272/14943ffb-ad84-470e-b733-78c82eb2b8d1/Kagan+entry+fall.jpeg Eco-Projects - Entrance Remodel Santa Fe In the late fall and early winter in Santa Fe, you can leave the grasses for winter interest or trim them to the ground. 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