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Nathan Brooks
Nathan is a garden designer in Denver who focuses on water-wise plantings adapted to Colorado's Front Range climate. He grew up in Nebraska, studied environmental science in college, and fell into garden design after spending summers working at a native plant nursery in Fort Collins. Denver's climate is genuinely challenging—low humidity, intense UV, alkaline clay soil, and wild temperature swings that can go from 70°F to snow in 24 hours. Nathan designs gardens that handle all of that without supplemental irrigation once established. He writes about xeric gardening, native plant selection for the Front Range, and the practical realities of high-altitude growing.
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Joined February 2026
