Denver, Colorado · Central Park
Gardens that know where they live.
Shades of Green is a garden and floral design studio in Denver’s Central Park. We design, plant, and tend gardens with local knowledge — perennials and grasses before hardscape.
Garden & Floral Design
The Studio
Run by a neighbor in Central Park.
I’m a Central Park gardener. I started Shades of Green to focus on planting work done carefully with local knowledge for the people who live with them.
Planting plans are drawn for Denver sun, soil, and seasons — perennials and grasses that can take the winters, and color that lasts. Hardscaping stays minimal. The plants do the main work.
I focus on plants that handle our sun, soil, and winters, and I come back through the seasons to keep them healthy.
What We Do
Local knowledge, planted by hand.
We design and plant gardens ourselves using plants suited to Denver’s sun, soil, and seasons. Hardscaping is kept to a minimum.
i.
Garden design
A planting plan for your beds and borders, using perennials, grasses, and shrubs suited to Denver sun, soil, and water.
ii.
Planting & installation
We source healthy plants and put them in the ground ourselves: perennials, grasses, shrubs, and the occasional small tree.
iii.
Seasonal color & containers
Front-porch pots, window boxes, and cutting beds refreshed through the seasons — tulips to dahlias to dried winter stems.
iv.
Garden tending
Spring clean-ups, mid-season edits, and fall cutbacks. A few visits a year helps a garden settle in and stay healthy.
Recent Work
A Central Park backyard, before & after.
A tired patch of lawn became a low-water garden with corten steel planters of grasses, evergreens, and cutting flowers along the fence. Turf and gravel fill in the spaces between. Drag the line to compare.
Say Hello
Tell us about your yard.
A sunny side yard, a porch that wants pots, a bed that never quite worked — we’d love to hear about it. Send a note and we’ll reply within a couple of days.