
- Read, Seed, and Grow: Summer Programming for Little Ones at the Gardens on Spring Creek
by laurenWith Poudre School District officially out for the summer, a handful of Fort Collins families made their way to one of the town’s best-kept secrets — the Gardens on Spring Creek — where the beloved Read and Seed program kicked off its summer season today. The program, one of the longest-running at the Gardens, welcomes… Read more: Read, Seed, and Grow: Summer Programming for Little Ones at the Gardens on Spring Creek - Celebrating 20 Years of Perennial Joys
by laurenJoy Andrews’ front yard garden center isn’t technically open for retail business today. Wednesdays are reserved for wholesale accounts and catching up on maintenance. But like the butterflies and bumblebees, people can’t resist stopping by to take in the riot of blooms. And Joy can’t resist breaking from her work and schedule to let them.… Read more: Celebrating 20 Years of Perennial Joys - Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals
by laurenGrowing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals Outside her front door and facing the foothills of the Rockies, Heather Hirschi adjusts drip irrigation lines while Tim Diana, her growing partner, broadforks soil in preparation for planting dahlia tubers. The two have been growing flowers together for two years under the Pedaling… Read more: Growing West: Water, Land, and What Comes Next for Pedaling Petals - NoCo Botanical Artist Profile: Tricia Soderberg
by laurenOn the evening of May 8, the Lincoln Center Gallery in Fort Collins hosted the opening reception for The Bright Side, an exhibit celebrating the power of bright color and uplifting energy through a dynamic mix of artistic styles. Among the four featured artists was Tricia Soderberg — a Colorado based mixed media artist whose… Read more: NoCo Botanical Artist Profile: Tricia Soderberg - NoCo Botanical Artist Profile: Annika Lahr
by laurenAnnika Lahr spends a lot of time looking at flowers. As a Fort Collins-based floral designer and botanically inspired painter, that attention is both professional habit and artistic practice. Lahr’s relationship with flowers began as a conceptual one — her academic paintings explored floral imagery as a lens for examining femininity, gender identity and power.… Read more: NoCo Botanical Artist Profile: Annika Lahr