Tag: garden
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Colorado Springs area home and garden events starting Sept. 12
FRIDAY-SEPT. 20 Harvest Festival — With garden demos, food trucks, classes and more, Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs Parkway. Go online for schedule and registration: phelangardens.com. SEPT. 19 Dahlia Days — 8 a.m.-noon, Gather Mountain Blooms, 5210 S. U.S. 85/87, $10 admission, $30 for cup of flowers. Tickets: gathermountainblooms.com. SEPT. 20 Victory Garden Market —…
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Pikes Pick: Spend time picking, wandering at family-owned flower farm
Summer at Gather Mountain Blooms, a family-owned flower farm southeast of Colorado Springs, means idyllic days picking bouquets during You-Pick Flowers from 8 a.m. to noon on Fridays, $5 admission, $25 for 20 stems. And for the first time, they’re opening their zinnia fields for flower cutting during Zinnia Days on Saturday and Aug. 1,…
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Facebook Marketplace turns the local plant sale digital
Facebook Marketplace: the endless scroll of affordable used couches, coffee tables and questionable “like new” furniture. But lately, when the location is pinned to Colorado Springs and its surrounding areas, another trend has taken root. It’s not the sale of old couches or used bikes that are filling users’ feeds; it’s plants. In the Pikes…
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City Greenhouses pay-what-you-can surplus plant sale returns
Some plant sales ask for a credit card or cash. This one simply asks for you to pay what you can. When the City Greenhouses open their gates July 23-25, thousands of greenhouse-grown native plants destined for Colorado Springs parks will instead find new homes through a donation-based surplus sale. After the city’s horticulture crews…
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Gardens bedazzled with art focus of Colorado Springs tour
Gardens are works of art unto themselves. Add interesting pieces of visual art, and maybe the Louvre Museum will begin to consider adding yards to its esteemed collection. The fifth annual Ivywild Garden Art Toure, by the Ivywild Improvement Society, features seven gardens that display not only lush plants but visual art among the annuals…
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Utah agave enters death bloom ‘grand finale’ at Denver Botanic Gardens
The 25-year-old plant shot up a towering stalk to produce seeds before its demise A few years into Dan Johnson’s 29-year horticulture career at the Denver Botanic Gardens, the nonprofit acquired a hard-to-come-by agave plant. The now decades-old Utah agave has “survived multiple hailstorms, polar vortexes, crazy swings in weather … through all of it,…
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Colorado Springs Garden Tour celebrates its 100th featured garden
For one weekend, the lawns, flower beds and hidden backyard gems that are typically reserved for a household’s usual members become a horticultural sight for locals to explore. For years, winding garden paths and pollinator-friendly landscapes have been carefully curated in homeowners’ outdoor spaces across the city. Now, with their gardens in full bloom, homes…
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The Springs Home Show connects local homeowners with experts
It usually starts with something small: a leaky roof, an outdated kitchen or a backyard that never quite feels finished. Then come the questions: Who do I call? How much will it cost? Where do I even begin? For homeowners in Colorado Springs, that process doesn’t have to stretch over weeks of research and DIY…
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5 ways to refresh your home without renovating
Refreshing your space doesn’t have to mean tearing it apart. Sometimes, the biggest difference comes from the smallest resets, rather than a full renovation. When the couch cushions sit a little higher, the floors feel even cleaner than they look and subtle shifts in color and scent make a room feel brighter and more lived-in,…
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Department of Agriculture warns of packages holding potentially invasive seeds
Spring planting is around the corner, and the Colorado Department of Agriculture wants residents to know where their seeds are coming from. Officials with the department warned Tuesday that they received reports of unsolicited packages containing plant seeds mailed internationally to Coloradans, according to a news release. While small, the contents of the package are…