Earth Love Gardens

A prior happy client of ours reached out to us to create a Landscape Design for around her shed. The goal was to create a design that distracted from the boxiness of the shed as well as create a xeric garden that looked organic in shape and whimsy. There also was to be planned a pergola to add to the shed to improve its aesthetic. We created this design which features 26 varieties of plants (with all but one being native, as the client requested an Eastern Redbud tree), with all different and complementary sizes, colors, bloom times, and more. Special consideration was placed on the shade cast in the area because of the existing trees and the appropriate plants were placed to accommodate that shade. A pergola, which can be painted a beautiful light bluy-grey color, can complement with the light green color of the shed. As well, a birdbath can both functionally and aesthetically provide for the garden. This design also included a 3D rendering to help visualize it all. As far as what our client thought? "We really love the design. Thank you so much!" What do you think of it?

Community projects are the life-blood of Earth Love Gardens. As we were founded on the mission of creating community and connection within ourselves, each other, and the Earth, these projects reach all these goals. Pictured here are three community projects that we lead in 2024: Top row- The Empowerment Program Project: Elevate's new Bird & Pollinator-Friendly Healing Habitat front landscape Second row- Restoration Outreach Programs' new community food and pollinator garden Third row- Five Points Denver's new National Wildlife Certified Wildlife Habitat and edible garden Leading through our Community Garden Project Management, we created each project's design, managed pre-planning, lead volunteers during the implementation, and provided each client a maintenance plan. We would love to make your organization's community garden dream a reality in 2025!

Our client is loving their new Landscape Design! The design features a majority of beautiful native plants that provide as habitat for pollinators & birds and some of our client's favorite non-natives. This arrangement will create a beautiful, functional, low-maintenance landscape for everybody (and everything) to enjoy! Plus, we created 3D renderings of the Landscape Design for our client to envision what the design will look like! If you are thinking of having a Landscape Design created for you, now is the perfect time to start planning your gardens and getting ahead of the spring rush!

"With already 3 million copies sold from past editions, I, with Earth Love Gardens, am excited to be featured and pictured in the latest fourth edition of the Square Foot Gardening Foundation book! The feature shares the great project we were involved with at the Anchor Center for Blind Children in Denver. Working with staff at the Anchor Center, including Kelly Mitchell, Horticultural Therapist, I designed a custom raised garden bed that children in wheelchairs could wheel under. We installed the custom raised bed, then a few months planned additional sensory, pollinator, and edible gardens for the Anchor Center that we installed with volunteers. We always love to share the Square Foot Gardening method with our garden bed clients to pack in as many veggies as they can in their new beds. We invite you to check out and learn from this great book as well!" – Aaron Michael, Earth Love Gardens

Look at the difference two days make! These two Garden Beds and Hoop Houses that we built fit our client's beautiful garden space perfectly. Our client is excited to get right to planting the MASA Seed Foundation seeds we also provided her. Even with cooler days, she will have much success growing in her new Hoop Houses that allow gardeners to grow year-round! Thank you Caleb with All Beings Ecoscapes for referring this lovely client (who also gave us an abundance of delicious tomatoes she was growing) to us.

Many plants have been recently in bloom at the Boulder Public Library's National Audubon Society of the Rockies Habitat Hero Native Plant Demonstration Garden! Here we see the Black Eyed Susan, Coneflower, Blanket Flower, Stiff Goldenrod, and Desert Four O'Clock all in their blooming glory and being enjoyed by all sorts of pollinators! The Desert Four O'Clock, just planted this spring, receives almost no additional supplemental irrigation and takes a lot of afternoon shade, and look at now big it already is! Desert Four O'Clock is a pretty, xeric, native, habitat-providing, wide-growing (so you get a lot of bang for your buck) plant that checks off a lot of boxes for those of you at home (as long as you live where this plant natively grows, in rhe West and Southwest) planning your pollinator gardens. Check out the new signage too! The Boulder Public Library recently added a new interpretative sign so garden visitors can read and learn about the Native Plant Demonstration Garden.

Our client, a nearby neighbor of ours, recently cut down a beautiful Colorado Blue Spruce (that was leaning just a bit too much towards the driveway) and what was left of the area needed some love. We envisioned a low-water, cottage-style pollinator and bird-friendly garden, which we iterated in their Landscape Design. Our client loved the design and we are happy to share with you how the garden is looking after it was just recently planted and mulched. The garden still has some features to be in added in the near future, but how beautiful the garden is blooming (along with the pollinators I saw enjoying it) had to be captured and shared!

We are excited to share that in association with and in sponsorship by the National Wildlife Federation, Earth Love Gardens has designed and is providing project management for a revitalizing garden in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver! With the intention of creating healthy community, this garden has been designed for the corner of Welton Street and 28th Street to provide edible fruits for people and a native plant, NWF Certified Wildlife Habitat! You are welcome to help transform this area as well as a volunteer! If you are in the area and available to volunteer, below in the comments is a form for more information about the project (being installed August 27th through the 29th) and to sign up to volunteer!

Our Landscape Design client in Littleton, Colorado, wanted all the plants in her design to be native and Earth Love Gardens was happy to deliver just that! Take a look at the level of detail put into the design, including the thoughtful placement of each plant, features such as wood logs (which also provide habitat for insects and birds) and boulders, and much more! A few notable features include: 1) A dry creek that feeds from the house's rear downspouts to transport supplemental water to the front of the house, and further feed the plants along and at the end of the way! 2) Downspouts on the southern side of the house that would be diverted to supplementally water a future prairie/wildflower meadow. 3) Additionally have been made firewise, by removing existing wood mulch from her landscape and adding squeegee rock in new and existing garden areas. As well, plants are generally kept 5' or more away to help make the house more firewise. As partners with the Pollinator Partnership Bee Friendly Garden and National Audubon Society of the Rockies Habitat Hero programs, our client's landscape can also be certified through each of our partnered organizations! We would love to hear your thoughts on this design and would love to create a Landscape Design for you too!

It is always lovely to share the Boulder Public Library's Audubon Rockies Habitat Hero Native Plant Demonstration Garden through a public garden tour. Hosted by the Boulder Public Library, I led this great group of people through the garden, sharing its story and all about the different native plants in the garden. As in all my garden walks, I further enjoy sharing the concept of having gratitude for the Earth, nature and the plants (which this concept of gratitude is found in indigenous cultures and countless traditions all over the world). During the garden tour, I then invite everyone to get out of our heads and into coming from a place from our hearts. Then participants are invited to walk throughout the garden and connect with any plant(s) that may resonate with them. Participants are invited to listen and feel what messages the plant(s) may be conveying to them, then we circle up and optionally share what we received. Everyone always loves to share and it always is such a lovely experience circling up and listening. During my personal connection with the garden during this exercise, I received multiple messages from multiple plants. I received from the Prairie Switchgrass to keep being green (in a lively, heart-centered sense) and vibrant. The Blanket Flower shared with me to keep being vibrant and colorful. The Creeping Oregon Grape shared with me to keep being evergreen (as the plant is), to always carry the message of the heart, even during the other part of the year when the energies are not as lively and the plants are dormant. Gardens and plants provide countless benefits for people and the ecosystem; we evolved with them. In addition to always learning more from nature in a logical sense, experiencing a deeper energetic connection with nature can provide so much healing for the individual and the collective. I am curious, to your conscious awareness, do you also deeply connect with the plants (and/or other forms of nature)? If so, how so? I would love to hear. – Aaron Michael, Earth Love Gardens