Nice! I'm looking forward to spring as well. Here's my back yard. This is last fall after I finished planting the back of the yard. It's on the edge of the property looking toward the house. In the foreground are two nannyberry shrubs (a viburnum related to cranberry) and then an area where I've planted a prairie garden and covered it with compost. You can see where I've left space for a path to walk through, and I plan to put a bench there. Back towards the house there is where the garden starts, and I had started planting there last year. It's nice in the summer sitting out on the patio, where I can watch the bird feeders and enjoy being surrounded by native plants. The area where I'm standing, with the nannyberry and the small post right beyond it, used to be completely infested with buckthorn and many invasive weeds. It took me 2 years to clear it all out. Now that the area is opened up a bit, I'm hoping that I'll have bluebirds nesting again (saw many here during fall migration.) I left this post standing as a spot for the bluebirds to perch, and to hang a nice sign. The post used to be completely obscured by buckthorn.

Leaves that grow out in low light conditions don't do well by being put into direct sun. It's better to put them out under a tree where they'll get filtered sunlight and then slowly increase their exposure. A sudden few hours of the direct sun is too intense for them. The adaptation isn't a matter of gradually increasing length of time but of gradually increasing intensity of exposure. The other issue is that the high elevation wouldn't only increase the intensity, but likely the humidity levels would be low. Plants usually are able to cope with higher intensity of sun if relative humidity is high. If you don't have a suitable place to give it filtered sun then maybe put it out in early morning or very late afternoon sun when intensity is much lower.

My bird of paradise has gotten brown spots and I don’t know how to help it. Can anyone help me.

Thank you for your reply. If you click on the picture, you can see that there is plenty of light. The leaves are not yellow either. Only the really old leaves are yellow. They have turned brown on the edges. They are wilty and not crispy. So I had smaller pots for the plants and recently switched to a lot bigger ones with obviously a lot more soil but i continued to water same amount as before. I don’t think I was watering enough as most of the soil would be dry (since now there was so much more soil). Because if this, I felt the soil would dry out really quickly too. Therefore, I started watering more and have noticed the stems breaking. I‘ve also noticed that when a new leaf is about to grow, the stems break from the spot where the new leaf comes out from. I’m not sure if this is the reason??