Santomarco's flowering trees backyard

Composite deck and flagstone patio.



View from screened in porch to waterrfall  



Pots ready for planting.

One of my favorite places: True Pump and Equipment in Denver

Marsh Marigolds

Koi enjoying their Spring day.

Bunnies for Spring

These cute bunnies on a client's property  grow up and dig up big patches on their lawn.  They live under their back porch.

Chaenomeles japonica, Quince in bloom

Quince with pine branches in background , south Lakewood CO

Apricot tree blooming

Spring cleaning of the DiMartini stream/pond

Lots of mud and Cottonwood leaves

Helleboras at the Meier Residence

Our prairie garden gets a spring haircut.

There is a little green already in the Buffalo Grass.

Denver Botanic Gardens

On the first day of March, Iris are blooming at DBG

March First, Meteorological Spring

A Gull is making a meal of a crawdad at Sloan's lake.  Ice all gone.

Tree pruning season

On a blue day, it is great to get out an prune the Apricot tree.  Problem branches are easy to see in the Winter. When working overhead, always wear your hard hat, gloves, and protective eyewear.

Pine tree in the wrong place

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This Ponderosa Pine which will get 50 feet tall and 40 feet wide was planted in a space 4' x 3' in front of a town house.  It may have been a live Christmas tree yeas ago.  It is doomed by ignorance of a human.

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You can see the branches have been trimmed to fit the small space.  They  will have to be trimmed every year.



Central Park Stapleton

A creek runs through it and so do many walking/biking paths.

Look closely for the prairie dog.

Pro Green Expo Denver Convention Center Feb. 7-10 2012

ProGreen is the annual trade show and education event of the Green Industry of Colorado.

Hardy Boys Greenhouses always has the best display.

It is the best place for networking and picking up new ideas and new products.

True Pump's pondless waterfall with a remote control on/off switch.

True Pump and Equipment's booth.  They are best place to purchase water gardening products in Denver.

Sloan's Lake

A week ago, before the 16" of snow, the lake was completely open.  Moments after taking this photo, the Bald Eagle roosting nearby did a flyby and all these birds took off.  They made a big circle and landed back here.

First Blooms of the year!

Brave little Snow Drops popping up just before the big storm hits.

The warm before the storm

The Koi are liking this not so cold weather.  The algae also.  Squirrels are all over the place.

Ground Hog Day 2012

A nice sunny, breezy day here on the Westside.   No ice or snow left.  A good day to winter water if you haven't been doing it regularly.  The crows are having a field day near Crown Hill Lake.

My new postcard for 2012.

Commons Park, Denver

A good hike in Denver: walk over the 1-25 pedestrian bridge into the Platte River Valley.  You can walk along the Platte River through Commons Park or take the bridge over the train tracks into the Balpark Neighborhood.

Rust never sleeps, neither does algae.

 A little warm weather can spur the growth of algae, even in winter.  January 16 and the algae is nice and green in my upper pond.

Elkhorn River, Neligh Nebraska

The river that runs past my hometown.  It can be placid or raging.  The natural beauty of Nebraska inspires my landscape designs.

Winter pruning

Here are examples of improper shrub pruning.  The multi-stem shrubs have been raggedly hacked off.  The proper method is to remove one third of the largest or dead stems at ground level per year as needed.