Tag: plants
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Year-round gardening: This native plant is sure to boost the look of your landscape
By Pat ShepperdsonColorado Master Gardener Clematis, a reliable garden favorite, is known as the “queen of climbers.” It adds height and color to fences, trellises and arbors without taking up valuable ground space, and its abundant, vibrant blooms attract beneficial insects such as bees and butterflies. Nearly 380 species of Clematis have been identified. Most…
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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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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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Phelan Gardens continues to blossom as a Springs business
4955 Austin Bluffs Parkwayphelangardens.com From a small greenhouse in Knob Hill neighborhood sprouted a gardening business that’s been in operation for more than 40 years. Phelan Gardens, a locally owned plant and gardening center, has been supplying Colorado Springs customers with an array of greens since 1981. The center is open year-round and offers everything…
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Gigantic Plant Sale returns to Colorado Springs: What to know before you go
Follow the scent of fresh soil and blooming roses, and you’ll find yourself in the heart of one of Colorado Springs’ most beloved garden traditions. For more than 60 years, the Horticultural Art Society of Colorado Springs has been cultivating not just plants, but a community. While maintaining multiple public gardens, the society transforms Monument…
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Year-round gardening: Get your soil ready for growing season
Fredricka BogardusColorado Master Gardener As gardeners, we really don’t grow plants; that is the soil’s job. Tilth, the soil’s ability to support plant growth, can be improved over time by amending soil wisely. A soil test provides data-based insight into what steps gardeners can take to help the garden thrive. Three important metrics for characterizing…
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‘It’s whatever you want it to be’: New art salon in OCC lets creativity bloom
Within a brick building on Old Colorado City’s 25th Street, green leaves soak in the sun next to a shampoo station and barber chair. It’s not just a hair salon, though. Across from the window, artist Sean Heinsman sketches a colorful, abstract piece on canvas. Plants, pots, and locally made candles line the shelves, and…
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Iconic Old West tumbleweeds roll in and blanket parts of suburban Salt Lake City
Tumbleweeds, the gnarled icon of the Old West, rolled in over the weekend and kept rolling until blanketing some homes and streets in suburban Salt Lake City
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This treehouse hotel sits in an otherworldly forest. Here’s how to get your reservation
The drive to Treehouse Point, half an hour east of Seattle, takes you through a forest fit for hobbits, crowded full of fir, spruce, cedar, maple and hemlock. Alongside the Raging River — yes, that’s its name — you get to a gate, punch in the secret code and enter a realm where it’s perfectly…