Rocky Mountain Gardening: Is anyone here from the Dolores/Cortez area?, 1 by bsavage

bsavage wrote:
Hi all... I live in Arizona (so I'm usually on the SW gardening forum), but we have a home in Dolores, and we may be moving there permanently. Is anyone on this forum from that area? It's taken me years to learn how to garden in the desert successfully, and of course now I need to re-learn colder climate gardening! We already have several things growing and a small pond, but specifically I'd like to know if wisteria or magnolia can be grown there... and what are your favorite "unusual" plants for the area?

Here's our little pond...

Thank you in advance,

Brenda