Water-Wise Resources

2026 Free Sustainable Landscape Series Classes

Feb. 3 - Landscape Design Workshop

• 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 222 Laporte Ave, Colorado River Room.
• Start planning your dream landscape in this hands-on workshop with professional landscape designer Desneige Sodano. Learn how to assess drainage, soil, sun exposure, and site conditions, choose appropriate plants, and identify areas for landscape conversion. Materials provided; all skill levels welcome.

Sign up for the Landscape Design Workshop.

Feb. 17 - DIY Turf Removal, Installation & Garden Maintenance

• 5:30-7 p.m. at 222 Laporte Ave, Colorado River Room.
• Ready to bring your design to life? Landscape designer Desneige Sodano covers turf removal, xeriscape installation basics, and eco-friendly landscape maintenance. Learn integrated pest management strategies from Natural Areas IPM Specialist Michael Auciello to reduce chemical use and promote healthy, resilient landscapes.

Sign up for the DIY Turf Removal class.

March 3 - Designing & Maintaining Pollinator Gardens

• 5:30-7 p.m. at 222 Laporte Ave, Colorado River Room.
• Learn how to create landscapes that support bees, butterflies, and other pollinators with professional landscape designer Desneige Sodano. This class explores native plants, habitat diversity, and seasonality, with practical design tips to boost biodiversity while creating beautiful gardens.

Sign up for the Pollinator Gardens class.

March 24 - Xeriscaping with Trees in Mind: Dry Shade & Parkways

• 5:30-7 p.m. at 222 Laporte Ave, Colorado River Room.
• This class focuses on plant selection and design for tough sites like parkway strips, small spaces, and dry shade under trees. Led by Desneige Sodano with City Forestry arborists on hand, you’ll learn how to protect tree health while creating sustainable, low-water landscapes.

Sign up for the Xeriscaping with Trees in Mind class.

April 21 – Irrigation & Converting Your Sprinkler System to Drip (2 hours: 5:30-7:30)

• 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 222 Laporte Ave, Colorado River Room.
• Save water and money by converting turf spray zones to drip irrigation. In this hands-on class, waterwise expert Eric Olson demonstrates how to modify existing systems, choose supplies, and improve irrigation efficiency. Learn about waterwise landscaping, rebates, and incentive programs.

Sign up for the Drip Irrigation class.

Xeriscape Garden Party & NoCo Native Plant Swap are back as part of FoCo Ecofest!

Learn about water-wise landscaping from local experts and participate in the Native Plant Swap & Giveaway! If you want to share native plants with your neighbors, we encourage you to dig and donate; or grow some extra plants from seed this spring. This free event will have family-friendly activities, free classes, a prize drawing, food trucks and more.

Saturday, June 6, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at City Hall & Washinton Park, 301 Maple St.

Volunteer in the Xeriscape Demonstration Garden:

Volunteer days are weekly spring through fall, and there are a smattering of indoor opportunities in the winter. Volunteers will learn about plant identification, seed collection and cleaning, how to grow native plants from seed, pruning and transplanting. Sign up for volunteer shifts on Engage.

Native Plant and Seed Swap Volunteer Opportunities

Grow native plants for the annual Native Plant Swap and Giveaway at the Xeriscape Garden Party in the spring. In the fall, help collect and clean seeds for the annual Native Seed Swap at Gardens on Spring Creek. Sign up to help!

• Xeriscape Basics
  
  
• Designing for a Low Water Garden

• Resource Central’s Waterwise Yard Seminars: Free live and recorded webinars from Colorado landscape professionals throughout the year on a variety of waterwise garden topics.  
• Gardens on Spring Creek Adult Education: Design and plant your garden with water in mind! Find classes focused on waterwise landscape and water-conscious irrigation best practices to help make the most of this precious resource.  
• Wild Ones Front Range Chapter: Empowers Front Range residents to plant and promote native plant Coloradoscapes. They host educational events, a native plant landscaping toolkit, and free native plant and seed swaps across the Front Range. 
• Colorado Native Plant Society: Classes, events and resources dedicated to furthering the knowledge, appreciation and conservation of Colorado native plants and habitats. 
• CSU Extension Gardening Webinars: Online gardening classes taught by CSU extension agents are free and open to the public. Registration is required.  
• People and Pollinators Action Network: Webinars and educational events focused on sustainable landscaping and wildlife habitat. PPAN offers grants of up to $2,000 for sustainable landscaping projects.  
• Audubon Rockies: Audubon’s Plants for Birds program teaches people how to create bird habitats in their landscapes and save water at the same time.

About Thyme Permascapes, LLC works to create and maintain beautiful gardens through soil retention, watershed adjustments, and thoughtful planting. New and established areas are transformed from bland, high maintenance yards into beautifully interesting, low maintenance spaces.

Website

aboutthymeperma.wixsite.com/aboutthyme

Phone

970-690-3345

Email

aboutthymepermascapes@gmail.com

All Terrain Landscaping, rooted in humble beginnings, now offers comprehensive water management solutions. With seasoned technicians and innovative techniques, they tackle even the toughest challenges, ensuring water savings and efficient irrigation. Trust them to handle any landscaping need with expertise and care. With over 100 years of combined experience, we all technicians to carry a minimum of one certification including CID, CLIA, QWEL and be well versed in the newest water conservation technology platforms.

Website

atpslandscaping.com

Phone

970-304-1183

Email

office@atpslandscaping.com

Residential and light commercial irrigation service and repair/ renovation company with over 38 years of doing business in the Fort Collins area. Irrigation system repairs, renovation and service including backflow testing.

Website

alpenglowsprinkler.com

Phone

970-493-6571

Email

brad@alpenglowsprinkler.com

Apex Futures LLC is a local Fort Collins firm passionate about designing and installing engaging, water wise landscapes that benefit the entire ecological community. Leaning on xeriscape and permaculture principles, we believe nature principally inform our design.

Website

apexfuturesllc.com

Phone

720-290-9141

Email

apexfuturesllc@gmail.com

Website

aquaverdellc.com

Phone

970-692-3832

Email

info@aquaverdellc.com

At Asher Architects+Engineers, we're a collective of forward-thinking collaborators who blend art and science to create water-efficient designs that are sustainable and inspiring. We understand the challenges of the region, and our landscape architects and irrigation designers work closely with you to develop solutions that are mindful of water usage and tailored to your way of life. Plus, we've got you covered if you need help navigating the City's site plan amendment process.

Website

asherarch.com

Phone

970-532-9970

Email

josh@asherarch.com

Blue Pumpkin Garden Care is a locally owned, woman-operated business providing personalized residential garden and landscape care. Services emphasize natural solutions, native plants, and waterwise practices—where every garden tells its own story.

Website

bluepumpkingardencare.com

Phone

970-412-0483

Email

donna@bluepumpkingardencare.com

Our award-winning gardens are not your average gardens.

At Blue Spruce Horticulture, we approach the design-build process through a horticultural lens. Our focus on waterwise garden designs allows us to strike a balance between beauty and function, creating breathtaking landscapes that support local pollinators, wildlife, the surrounding ecosystem, and those who commission us to build these unique landscapes.    

Blue Spruce Horticulture integrates water-wise principles of xeriscaping and diverse, native plant species in every garden design. Our team of experts is composed of educated industry professionals with expertise in landscape design, installation, irrigation, maintenance, sustainability, and hardscape construction.    

We hope to hear from you soon! 

Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, and the surrounding area. 

Website

https://bluesprucehort.com

Phone

(970) 235-0286

Email

info@bluesprucehort.com

Carmichael Landscaping is a small family-owned and operated company. We design, install and consult waterwise landscapes. We focus on quality and building relationships.

Website 

https://carmichael-landscaping.com/

Phone 

970-566-8154

Email 

pete@carmichael-landscaping.com

Chickadee Pine Designs LLC, is an ecological landscape design company specializing in pollinator and bird friendly landscape habitats. We also specialize in facilitating community landscape design workshops, interpretive graphic design, and garden coaching. We design with our clients, teach what we know, and help guide installation to create habitat for all. We only provide landscape design services and can plan workshops to help you install your own landscape with friends and family. If you want someone else to install your landscape then we can refer you to an installation company.

Website

chickadeepinedesign.com

Phone

207-323-1737

Email

deepinedesigns@gmail.com

Common Roots is a water-wise yardscaping company building on the ethics of permaculture to grow abundance on the land through soil building, native plants, edible perennials, resilient gardening techniques, and closed loop systems.

Website

commonrootscolorado.com

Phone

970-556-8930

Email

matt@commonrootscolorado.com

Confluent Design is a local landscape architecture practice specializing in water-wise, climate-resilient landscapes for the Front Range. We design beautiful, low-water, fire-wise landscapes using native and adapted plantings and long-term maintenance planning to reduce water use and support pollinators.

As a licensed landscape architect, we also assist homeowners with city land use approvals and site planning requirements. Our goal is to design landscapes that conserve water, perform well over time, and add lasting value.

Website

confluentdesign.net

Phone

303-709-6783

Email

kevin@confluentdesign.net

Didier Design Studio is a landscape architecture firm with expertise in all facets of design and planning from vision to completion. Celebrating the unique qualities of western landscapes, we work with natural materials and striking plant combinations to create designs that are resilient, artful, and deliberate. Serves both residential and commercial customers.

Website

www.didierdesignstudio.com

Phone

970-416-1018

Email

kate@didierdesignstudio.com

Earth Love Gardens (ELG) creates native plant, pollinator & bird-friendly and edible Landscape Designs. ELG also offers Project Management to install projects for non-profit organizations. ELG partners with the Audubon Rockies and the Pollinator Partnership.

Website

earthlovegardens.com

Phone

720-295-8582

Email

aaron@earthlovegardens.com

At Earthborn Landscape Design, we work in close partnership with our clients to create water-wise landscape designs that are beautiful, functional, and sustainable. We specialize in designing low-water landscapes with a strong focus on native plants.

Website

earthbornlandscape.com

Phone

970-443-1130

Email

sally@earthbornlandscape.com

In 1922, Delph Carpenter drafted and signed the Colorado River Compact that allocates the river water use for 7 states. 100 years later, that same reverence towards irrigated water led Scott Carpenter to found Efficient Lawns of Colorado. ELC is focused on providing irrigation and lawn care services to Northern Colorado. Serving residential and commercial customers.

Website

www.Efficientlawnsco.com

Phone

970-221-1606

Email

 elc@efficientlawnsco.com

Offering hourly consulting to complete landscape plans plus DIY support, design on-site, Parkway Amendments, curated plant lists & plant sourcing, ecological gardening practices, native and regionally appropriate planting design, site design to marry building and landscape architecture.

Website

emilygoldman.net

Phone

970-222-2951

Email

emilygoldman124@gmail.com

Outdoor Water Management Company delivering measurable water-use reductions through efficient, data-driven management practices. Serving commercial customers from Colorado I25 and I70 Corridor, Fort Collins - Castle Rock, Summit County to Aspen.

Website

etirrigation.com

Phone

720-480-4312

Email

brian@etirrigation.com

Rewilding landscapes. Small design company focused on bringing nature to your yard. We rely on many native and adaptable plants that provide year-round interest, insect and pollinator habitats, pops of color and texture, while keeping it as low maintenance and water wise as possible. We work hand in hand with landscape installers to ensure your vision comes to life.

Website

freshbloomsdesign.com

Phone

970-631-7520

Email

jenny@freshbloomsdesign.com

Front Range Landscape is family owned and operated. We offer landscape design, installation and maintenance services. We specialize in providing custom gardens that suit our customers' needs and wants.

Website

frontrangelandscapellc.net

Phone

970-231-0214

Email

sari.frontrange@gmail.com

Local full-service landscape contractor with 30+ years on Colorado Front range, specializing in commercial, and HOA maintenance and water management.

Phone

970-481-6454

Email

mdepriest@greenearthgt.com

We transform landscapes into beautiful, functional spaces inspired by Colorado's surroundings. With a passion for building backyard memories, our team delivers seamless projects that bring your vision to life. We create sustainable environments that connect people and communities, ensuring each project enhances the spaces we call home.

Website

https://greyrocklandscape.com/

Phone

970-412-4422

Email

office@greyrocklandscape.com

Habitat Guild is a full-service, premium residential landscape company providing design, build and care services in Northern Colorado. We specialize in the artful craft of naturalized landscape through an ecological lens.

Website

habitatguild.com

Phone

970-305-4794

Email

derek@habitatguild.com

Horsetooth Nursery is a small grower specializing in local native plants and other xeric, pollinator-friendly species.

Website

https://954940428245495177.weebly.com/#/

Phone 

303-709-6783

Email

kevin@horsetoothnursery.com

Colorado native and THC owner Loretta Mannix has been a part of the Front Range green industry for 50 years. Her background working at plant nurseries and degrees in fine art and landscape design have equipped her with design and local plant expertise that enables her to create unique and beautiful low-water, site-specific landscape designs for her clients. Please contact Loretta to learn about the design process and make an appointment for a design consultation.

Website

www.thehortconsult.com

Phone

970-407-8695

Email

 Lmannix7@gmail.com

Our residential landscape installation services and maintenance services are available to properties in Fort Collins (east of Horsetooth Reservoir), Loveland (east of Co Rd 23), Timnath, Wellington, Windsor, and northern Johnstown. Our landscape installation services and maintenance services for commercial properties are available for all of Northern Colorado.

Website

hurrcolorado.com

Phone

970-613-0225

Email

officemanager@hurrvasa.com

Linden Leaf Landscapes is a small Fort Collins business specializing in xeriscape, flagstone, and garden installation. Our single crew is passionate about bringing personal and professional support to our community.

Website

lindenleaflandscapes.com

Phone

970-232-8892

Email

lindenleaflandscapes@gmail.com

Our motto is "Working together to guide responsible change". That means as a team we help communities make changes to the landscape that are responsible, good for people and the environment, and are beautiful. Our work is woven into the communities we serve through parks, recreation, open space, and trail design; urban infill and redevelopment; environmental restoration; commercial, residential, and education/civic/public facilities site planning; and streetscapes, trails, and pathways design.

Website

logansimpson.com

Phone

970-449-4100

Email

dsodano@logansimpson.com

We install new irrigation systems, sprinklers and drip. We adapt existing systems to changes to your landscape. We service, repair and manage systems. We are very experienced with many different brands of smart controllers and use only the highest quality products. We warranty everything we do.

Website

longleafirrigation.com

Phone

970-556-5485

Email

john@longleafirrigation.com

Fort Collins owned and operated, Meade Landscaping serving Northern Colorado for all your hardscape, landscape, xeriscape and irrigation needs. From renovations, irrigation troubleshooting to design and install, there is no job too small. ICPI certified.

Phone

301-807-0724

Email

Ameade0@gmail.com

Norris Design offers planning, landscape architecture, irrigation design, and branding services. Our integrated approach brings individual disciplines together to design places that get built. We believe in the power of place and the ability of our environments to inspire us all.

Website

norris-design.com

Phone

970-409-3414

Email

pmeyer@norris-design.com

We guide landowners and project owners through every phase of revegetation planning— to achieve long-term success. Our services include developing practical, site-specific plans that incorporate native species, connecting clients with trusted contractors, and providing ongoing monitoring and maintenance guidance. Our goal is to foster healthy soils, resilient native vegetation, and sustainable landscapes that align with landowner objectives and meet regulatory requirements.

Website

www.nsreclaim.com

Phone

970-217-9390

Email

kate@nsreclaim.com

Oak & Stone Design is a local landscape design and construction team dedicated to designing and building enticing outdoor living spaces with the environment in mind.

Website

oakstonedesign.com

Phone

719-244-5017

Email

zach@oakstonedesign.com

Based in Fort Collins, CSU graduate offering landscape and home exterior design services along the Front Range with a network of contractors for installation. Consultations provided for tree care and landscape maintenance as well.

Website

oaklynknoll.com

Phone

970-475-8576

Email

jaclyn@oaklynknoll.com

Padden Permaculture, founded by certified permaculture designer and teacher Patrick Padden, is an ecological landscape design firm based in Fort Collins, Colorado. With over 16 years of experience, the company specializes in sustainable and regenerative land projects that integrate productive and ecologically conscious species and strategies. Services include comprehensive landscape transformations, AI and VR visualization tools, and the creation of functional, beautiful outdoor spaces that enhance local ecosystems and promote community prosperity.

Website

paddenpermaculture.com

Phone

970-999-4306

Email

patrick@paddenpermaculture.com

Maddie specializes in naturalistic, native-plant landscapes that serve people and wildlife alike. A trained botanist and teacher, she offers consulting and design services, as well as workshops on native garden installation and bare-root planting technique. She is herself a former Xeriscape Incentive Program participant (2021).

Website

redsoilseeds.com

Phone

970-214-1600

Email

maddie@redsoilseeds.com

Skyline Landscape and Design has 19 years of locally owned and operated, Fort Collins experience. We are a design build landscape construction company specializing in residential landscape construction. We are happy to work with the City of Fort Collins and their XIP program to transform your landscape into a beautiful, functional, xeriscape that you can enjoy, all while reducing water and maintenance costs. Please check our reviews to understand the care and quality we put into our work and email us for a free quote/consultation.

Website

skylinelandscape.weebly.com

Phone

970-218-8686

Email

Skylinelandscapeanddesign@hotmail.com

Sol Y Tierra is locally owned and operated, providing quality installations and designs for our clients since 2025.Serving both residential and commercial customers.

Website

www.Solytierralandscape.com  

Phone

970-732-3478

Email

solytierralandscaping@gmail.com

Family owned and operated, providing consultation, design, installation and maintenance of residential properties. Specializing in sustainable xeric landscapes. Great plant knowledge.

Phone

970-980-1288

Email

sverdojohnson@gmail.com

With a multi-disciplinary approach to design issues, STUDIOPLAATS focuses on residential homes, large-scale urban master planning and design, ecological restoration, parks, plazas, squares and gardens. We also develop concepts and visions for climate forward projects, making sustainable building and ecosystem restoration priority one.

Website

studioplaats.com

Phone

970-364-3725

Email

sfagan@studioplaats.com

Summit Outdoor Living is a professional design-build landscape company that is known for its custom outdoor living spaces and hardscape construction tailored to your unique vision and lifestyle. We are detailed craftsmen who have been assisting our residential and commercial clients from the concept plan to the finished landscape in Northern Colorado since 1999.

Website

summitoutdoorliving.com

Phone

970-567-8208

Email

summithardscaping@gmail.com

Sun Skin Landscapes provides task strategy consultations, health assessments, space design, maintenance, and installation to help Northern Coloradoans accomplish their ornamental and productive gardening/landscaping goals in our arid climate.

Phone

970-305-5958

Email

sunskinlandscapes@gmail.com

Sundrops and Starflowers specializes in landscape design for the do-it-yourself homeowner. A yard that is truly lovely is one that is loved by the owner. Large or small projects welcome.

Website

sundropsandstarflowers.com

Phone

970-988-3808

Email

stephanie@sundropsandstarflowers.com

We provide detailed landscape designs and consultations. We specialize in low water, native designs as well as pollinator friendly designs. We also provide detailed garden maintenance and garden installations. We will oversee the installation of an entire landscape design from start to finish and then take care of it as it matures.

Phone

970-310-1841

Email

joanie.sustainescapes@gmail.com

A love of beauty, native Colorado plants, and good design inspired Mark and Emily Maeda to found Tree of Life Landscapes in 1998. We are a design-build firm specializing in plant driven design that leverages natural systems and native and native adapted plants.

Website

treeoflifelandscapes.com

Phone

303-246-6946

Email

office@treeoflifelandscapes.com

True Nature Gardens creates waterwise, habitat-friendly landscapes that nurture both nature and well-being. We blend garden coaching, sustainable design, and mindfulness to foster connection, resilience and beauty in every outdoor space.

Website

truenaturegardens.com

Phone

970-430-6873

Email

emily@truenaturegardens.com

Your friendly local landscapers! Turf Tamers operates in Fort Collins serving residential and Commercial properties. We offer full service maintenance and Landscape installations.

Website

turftamerslandscaping.com

Phone

970-460-8873

Email

office@turftamerslandscaping.com

Urban Ecology Studio provides landscape design services with the intent of creating meaningful spaces that also serve as examples of careful stewardship of water and habitat. Fred Haberecht, the owner of Urban Ecology Studio, has 40 years of experience in designing and managing landscapes in the arid west. Fred Haberecht is a Licensed Landscape Architect with 40 years of substantial and varied design experience, 20 of which were at Colorado State University first as the Campus Landscape Architect and later as the Campus Planner.

Phone

970-317-7027

Email

UrbanEcologyStudio@gmail.com

Ward's Lawn Service has been in business for 25 years. We do both residential and commercial work. Our professionals do a variety of work including property maintenance, annual and perennial enhancement, sod installation, irrigation installation including backflow testing, trouble shooting and maintenance, landscape renovation, spring and fall cleanups, field mowing and snow removal.

Website

wardslawn.com

Phone

303-684-9484

Email

ellyn.rush@wardslawn.com

Waterwise Land and Waterscapes has been in the Landscape business since first opening its doors in 2001 and has over 75 years of combined experience in landscape design, build, maintenance, construction and management. We have installed and been part of projects that range from small residential landscapes to million dollar, multi-use housing developments.

Website

waterwiselandscapes.com

Phone

970-221-4051

Email

astrid@waterwiselandscapes.com

ZGL is a full-service landscaping company, we specialize in providing both commercial and residential landscaping services, including design, installation, and maintenance. We make life better through landscaping.

Website

zakgeorgelandscaping.com

Phone

970-424-8143

Email

jasonb@zakgeorgelandscaping.com