The Flower Press
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“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem
Category: Floral News + Events
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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.…
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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.…
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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…
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On Sunday, April 19, Colorado State University students were invited to spend a free afternoon at The Gardens on Spring Creek — a 12-acre botanic garden tucked along the Spring Creek Trail, in Fort Collins, Colorado. Although it is less than a mile from campus, it was for many of the students in attendance their…
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Northern Colorado is expecting its first snowfall of the year, a reminder that the growing season is officially over. For longtime local flower growers Sue Miller of Blush Flowers on Vine and Debbie Miller of The Farmer’s Wife Flowers, the timing lines up with the winding down of their field tasks and the beginning of…
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Over a weekend of remembrance and mourning, friends and family of long-time Fort Collins, Colorado community member, Brian Jasper Hall gathered to honor his life, his many contributions, and his recent passing. Hall, after a lifelong struggle with depression, lost his battle on October 20, 2025 and died by suicide. A memorial gathering was held…
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