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“Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem
Category: interviews
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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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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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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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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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Also known as Kadō, or the “way of flowers” ikebana is the centuries-old Japanese art of flower arrangement. Its origins date back to the sixth century when Chinese monks introduced Buddhism to Japan, and with it the practice of offering simple altar flowers for worship and ceremony. This practice evolved over time into the more…
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Foraging for material is an emerging trend in floral design and autumn is the perfect time to appreciate it here in Northern Colorado. For Jacqueline Thain of Rue and Pear Flower Co., based out of Loveland, gathering materials from the landscape isn’t just economical or creative; it’s a mindful practice that adds depth, contrast, and…
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