Colorado High Altitude
Wildflowers

Hello and welcome to my website on living and gardening in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. This portion of my website is underconstruction (no kidding....). I live on a wonderful property at 8,150 feet above sea level and am very fortunate to have a wealth of wildflowers growing here.

There are also many, many public lands within 50 miles of where I live. These include Jefferson Country Open Space Parks, the Pike National Forest, the Arapaho National Forest, the Lost Creek Wilderness, and the Mount Evans Wilderness. I have hiked these areas for years and, as noted by the eminent wildflower botonist William Weber, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains where I live contains about half of the 1,600 wildflowers that grow in all the Rocky Mountains.

This summer, I took roughly 500 images of wildflowers that grow on our propery. These images are of the plants in various stages of development, not just the beautiful flowers. My plan for this portion of my website is to have a page for each of these ~60 distinct wildflowers and shrubs with links to external webpages that also describe the plants.

In succeeding years (I plan very far ahead), I will be taking more images of wildflowers, not just on our property but on some of the surrounding public lands.

Currently, I am working on updating the portion of my website that has to do with High Altitude Gardening. Click here to see these pages. I had written the original website in 2000-2002 and have migrated it to this host.

I also have a main site page where I will be keeping a blog about the status of various parts of my website. You can see that page by clicking here.