Tag: plants
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The number of monarch butterflies at their Mexico wintering sites has plummeted this year
Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began
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LIFE | Betty Ford Alpine Garden
The Betty Ford Alpine Gardens, located in Vail, is the world’s highest botanical garden at an 8,200 feet altitude in the Rocky Mountains. (Video by Jon Mitchell)
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LIFE | Gardener brings his own flair to backyard escape
Cody Klingenberg has worked to transform and maintain a “zen garden” in his backyard in Colorado Springs. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase…
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New book spreads joy, education of world’s highest botanical gardens in Colorado
In the mid-1990s, during graduate studies at Cornell University, Sarah Chase Shaw spent her summers in Vail working at a garden center. She was selling daisies and the usual annuals and perennials. “That was really the early years of the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens,” Chase Shaw recalls. “People would come in regularly and would say…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for their continued survival. Some longer-lived perennials also reseed readily. Dealing…
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for their continued survival. Some longer-lived perennials also reseed readily. Dealing…
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LIFE | The restorative power of plants
Here are a few fast facts on the benefits of houseplants. (Video by Katie Klann)