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“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem
Category: Grower Profile
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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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Growing 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…
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This year Joy Andrews is celebrating her 20th anniversary owning and operating her small northern Colorado garden center. Perennial Joys is no ordinary garden center. Operated out of her home and yard, it is a one-of-a-kind Fort Collins small business. The past winter and the present spring — the driest and warmest many regional experts…
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