Category: Floral Therapy

  • Northern Colorado Farms See Growing Interest Pick-Your-Own Flower Adventures

    A Budding Trend Last summer, an unexpectedly viral Instagram reel sent visitors from around the state streaming to Garden Sweet in Fort Collins. Rows of pink peonies and a flirty invitation to spend date night picking a $25 bouquet drove unprecedented traffic, eventually landing the farm a spot on 5280 Magazine’s list of the Front…

  • NoCo Botanical Artist Profile: Annika Lahr

    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.…

  • Happy and Bright: Painted Flowers Hold Space

    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…