A native wildflower garden along the front range of the Rocky Mountains delivers beauty as well as habitat for birds and pollinators throughout the year. While the garden shrubs and flowers have lost nearly all their leaves and gone to seed, a native plant garden retains its beauty through winter. The winter remnants from previous seasons deliver colors and diverse shapes creating interest and stark winter beauty. Glistening white snow and blue shadows form a backdrop for bright red rose hips, maroon stems of red-osier dogwood, and burnt umber seed heads of coneflowers and black-eyed susans. These contrast with various shades of ochre, sepia, grays, and olive greens creating winter color for those who take the time to observe. The shrubs along with standing flower stalks and seed heads provide winter shelter for a variety of pollinators as well as both food and cover for chickadees, goldfinches, juncos, magpies and other birds that over-winter in the Rocky Mountain region.

Printed with archival inks on high quality, heavy duty fine art acid-free archival paper. Fits in any standard 8 x 10 inch frame.

• Art by Colorado Artist Susan E. Quinlan
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Visit susanquinlan.com for a free guide to Through the Seasons wildflowers and wildlife along with information about 
the joys and benefits of native plant gardening.