The Flower Press

Joy 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

On 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

Annika 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

It’s still too early in northern Colorado to plant many of summer’s most popular and eye-catching annual flowers. The bold seasonal color that defines Old Town Fort Collins’ street corners each year is still weeks away. But in the meantime, the Lincoln Center Art Gallery is offering an alternative dose of floral therapy. The Bright… Read more: Happy and Bright: Painted Flowers Hold Space